Musnad Abi Ya'la 3269

Translation

✧ When My servant draws near to Me a hand span, I draw near to him an arm's length; when he draws near an arm's length, I draw near him a fathom; and when he comes to Me walking, I come to him rushing.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 96" إذا تقرب العبد إلي شبراً تقربت إليه ذراعاً، وإذا تقرب إلي ذراعاً تقربت منه باعاً، وإذا أتاني يمشي أتيته هرولة"

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 7536Sahih al-Bukhari 7537Sahih Muslim 2675fMusnad Ahmad 12287Sahih Ibn Hibban 376

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   يحدث عن
2. 2
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَ بْنَ دِعَامَةَثقة ثبت
   سمعت
3. 3
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثني
4. 4
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 242 AH, or 243 AH, or 246 AH
   أَحْمَدُثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أبو يعلى الموصلي

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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