Musnad Ahmad 21095

Translation

✧ Shall I not teach you a surah the like of which has not been sent down in the Torah, nor in the Zabur, nor in the Gospel, nor in the Qur'an? I said: Yes. He said: I hope that I will not leave through that door until you learn it. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood up, and I stood up with him. He took me by the hand and began talking to me until he reached near the door. He said: Then I reminded him, and I said: O Messenger of Allah, the surah you told me about? He said: How do you recite when you stand to pray? He recited the Opening of the Book. He said: It is it, it is it, and it is the seven oft-repeated verses and the Great Qur'an which I was given afterwards.

Notes

• قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ سَأَلْتُ أَبِي عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَسُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ فَقَدَّمَ الْعَلَاءَ عَلَى سُهَيْلٍ وَقَالَ لَمْ أَسْمَعْ أَحَدًا ذَكَرَ الْعَلَاءَ بِسُوءٍ وقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَأَبُو صَالِحٍ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الْعَلَاءِ حَدِيثُ رِفَاعَةَ بْنِ رَافِعٍ عَنْ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ

  machine translationʿAbdullāh said: I asked my father about al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ, and he put al-ʿAlāʾ ahead of Suhayl and said: I have not heard anyone mention al-ʿAlāʾ with anything bad. And Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: And Abū Ṣāliḥ is dearer to me than al-ʿAlāʾ. The hadith of Rifāʿah b. Rāfiʿ, from Ubayy b. Kaʿb. Report a problem

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  اختلف على العلاء في هذا الحديث كما ترى في الإسناد والمتن وأظنه كان في حفظه شيء والله أعلم وقد جوده ابن أبي شيبة ويوسف بن موسى عن أبي أسامة عن عبد الحميد بن جعفر

  machine translationThere was disagreement about al-ʿAlāʾ in this hadith, as you see, in the chain and in the text. I think there was something in his memory, and God knows best. Ibn Abī Shaybah and Yūsuf b. Mūsā have transmitted it well, from Abū Usāmah, from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21420

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 1457

Narrators

1. 1
   Ubay b. Kaʿb

   One of the distinguished Companions (min fuḍalāʾ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 19 AH, or 20 AH, or 22 AH, or 30 AH, or 32 AH, or 33 AH
   أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍمن فضلاء الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
3. 3
   his father

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
4. 4
   al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥuraqī

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AH
   الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ ج٩ / ص٤٨٩٩عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ربما وهم
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar

   Truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and he sometimes erred (wahima)d. 153 AH
   عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍصدوق رمي بالقدر ، وربما وهم
   عن
6. 6
   Abū Usāmah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AH
   أَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Maʿmar

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 236 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ أَبُو مَعْمَرٍثقة مأمون
   حدثنى
8. 8
   ʿAbdullāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297
   عَبْدُ اللهِثقة

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