Musnad Ahmad 15922
✧ My distinguished father
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ هِشَامٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي الْمُعَلَّى عَنْ أَبِيهِ
إِنَّ رَجُلًا خَيَّرَهُ رَبُّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بَيْنَ أَنْ يَعِيشَ فِي الدُّنْيَا مَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَعِيشَ فِيهَا يَأْكُلُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا مَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مِنْهَا، وَبَيْنَ لِقَاءِ رَبِّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ - فَاخْتَارَ لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ. قَالَ: فَبَكَى أَبُو بَكْرٍ. قَالَ: فَقَالَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ: أَلَا تَعْجَبُونَ مِنْ هَذَا الشَّيْخِ أَنْ ذَكَرَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ رَجُلًا صَالِحًا خَيَّرَهُ رَبُّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى بَيْنَ الدُّنْيَا وَبَيْنَ لِقَاءِ رَبِّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى فَاخْتَارَ لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ؟! وَكَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَعْلَمَهُمْ بِمَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ. فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: بَلْ نَفْدِيكَ بِأَمْوَالِنَا وَأَبْنَائِنَا أَوْ بِآبَائِنَا ! فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: مَا مِنَ النَّاسِ أَحَدٌ أَمَنُّ عَلَيْنَا فِي صُحْبَتِهِ وَذَاتِ يَدِهِ مِنِ ابْنِ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ، وَلَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا خَلِيلًا لَاتَّخَذْتُ ابْنَ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ، وَلَكِنْ وُدٌّ وَإِخَاءُ إِيمَانٍ، وَلَكِنْ وُدٌّ وَإِخَاءُ إِيمَانٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ، وَإِنَّ صَاحِبَكُمْ خَلِيلُ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Walīd Hishām
- Abū ʿAwānah
- ʿAbd al-Malik
- Ibn Abū al-Muʿallá
- his father
✧ Indeed a man was given choice by his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, between living in the world as long as he wished to live in it, eating from the world as much as he wished to eat from it, and meeting his Lord, Mighty and Majestic — and he chose meeting his Lord. He said: So Abū Bakr wept. He said: The companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ said: “Do you not wonder at this old man? The Messenger of God ﷺ mentioned a righteous man whom his Lord, Blessed and Exalted, gave choice between the world and meeting his Lord, Blessed and Exalted, and he chose meeting his Lord, Mighty and Majestic?!” And Abū Bakr was the most knowledgeable of them about what the Messenger of God ﷺ had said. Abū Bakr said: “Rather, may we ransom you with our wealth and our sons, or with our fathers!” The Messenger of God ﷺ said: “There is no one among the people who has been more gracious to us in his companionship and his wealth than Ibn Abī Quḥāfah. If I were to take a bosom friend (khalīl), I would have taken Ibn Abī Quḥāfah, but it is affection and brotherhood of faith — but it is affection and brotherhood of faith — he said it twice — and indeed your companion is the bosom friend of God, Mighty and Majestic.”
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What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
يرويه عبد الملك بن عمير واختلف عنه فرواه أبو عوانة وعبيد الله ابن عمرو وشعيب بن صفوان عن عبد الملك عن ابن أبي المعلى عن أبيه وقال بعضهم عن رجل من آل أبي المعلى عن أبيه ورواه إسماعيل بن أبي خالد عن عبد الملك عن رجل من آل أبي المعلى مرسلا ولم يقل عن أبيه وحديث أبي عوانة ومن تابعه أشبه بالصواب
in مسند أحمد, p. 16097
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)أَبُو الْمُعَلَّى بْنُ لَوْذَانَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- عنولا يعرف
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 133 AHعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِثقةعن
- حدثناtrustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 175 AH
- حدثناtrustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 226 AH
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 241 AHأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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