Musnad Abi Ya'la 89

Translation

✧ In the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ there was a man whose devotion and striving impressed us. We mentioned him to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ by name, but he did not recognize him. We described him by his appearance, but he did not recognize him. While we were mentioning him, the man appeared. We said: Here he is. He said: You are telling me about a man on whose face there is a mark from Satan. He came forward and stood by them without greeting. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him: I adjure you by Allah, did you say when you stood by the gathering: There is no one among the people better or more virtuous than I? He said: O Allah, yes. Then he entered to pray. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Who will kill the man? Abu Bakr said: I will. He entered upon him and found him standing in prayer. He said: Glory be to Allah, should I kill a man who is praying when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has prohibited killing those who pray? He came out. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: What did you do? He said: I disliked killing him while he was praying, and you have prohibited killing those who pray. Umar said: I will. He entered and found him prostrating with his face on the ground. Umar said: Abu Bakr is better than me. He came out. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: What happened? He said: I found him prostrating, and I disliked killing him. He said: Who will kill the man? Ali said: I will. He said: You, if you catch him. Ali entered and found that he had left. He returned to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: What happened? He said: I found that he had left. He said: If he had been killed, no two men in my community would have differed. He was the first and the last of them. Musa said: I heard Muhammad b. Ka'b saying: He is the one whom Ali killed, Dhu al-Thudayya.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  وفيه موسى بن عبيدة وهو متروك ورواه البزار باختصار ورجاله وثقوا على ضعف في بعضهم

  in مسند أبي يعلى الموصلي, p. 89

Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5064al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16927al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17085Sunan al-Daraqutni 1758Musnad al-Bazzar 39Musnad Abi Ya'la 6130

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
   عن
2. 2
   Hūd b. ʿAṭāʾ

   d. between 131 and 140 AH
   هُودُ بْنُ عَطَاءٍ
   أخبرني
3. 3
   Mūsā b. ʿUbaydah

   Weak (ḍaʿīf), especially in his narration from ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār; and he was devout (ʿābid).d. 152 AH, or 153 AH
   مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَضعيف ، ولا سيما في عبد الله بن دينار ، وكان عابدا
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. al-Zibriqān

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. between 191 AH and 200 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الزِّبْرِقَانِصدوق ربما وهم
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. al-Faraj

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 236 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أبو يعلى الموصلي

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