Musnad Ahmad 21288

Translation

✧ The roof of my house was opened while I was in Makkah, and Gabriel ﷺ descended and opened my chest, then washed it with water from Zamzam. Then he brought a golden basin full of wisdom and faith, poured it into my chest, then closed it. Then he took me by the hand and ascended with me to the heaven. When he came to the lowest heaven, he asked for it to be opened. It was said: 'Who is this?' He said: 'Gabriel.' It was said: 'Is there anyone with you?' He said: 'Yes, Muhammad is with me.' It was said: 'Has he been sent for?' He said: 'Yes, so open.' When we ascended to the lowest heaven, there was a man with dark figures on his right and dark figures on his left. When he looked to his right he smiled, and when he looked to his left he wept. He said: 'Welcome to the righteous prophet and the righteous son.' I said to Gabriel: 'Who is this?' He said: 'This is Adam, and these dark figures on his right and left are the souls of his descendants. The people of the right are the people of Paradise, and the dark figures on his left are the people of the Fire. So when he looks to his right he laughs, and when he looks to his left he weeps.' Then Gabriel ascended with me until he came to the second heaven and said to its keeper: 'Open.' Its keeper said to him the like of what the keeper of the lowest heaven had said, and he opened for him. Anas b. Malik said: He mentioned that he found in the heavens Adam, Idris, Moses, Jesus, and Abraham (peace be upon them), but it was not firmly established for me how their stations were, except that he mentioned that he found Adam in the lowest heaven and Abraham in the sixth heaven. Anas said: When Gabriel ﷺ and the Messenger of God ﷺ passed by Idris, he said: 'Welcome to the righteous prophet and the righteous brother.' I said: 'Who is this?' He said: 'This is Idris.' Then I passed by Moses, and he said: 'Welcome to the righteous prophet and the righteous brother.' I said: 'Who is this?' He said: 'This is Moses.' Then I passed by Jesus, and he said: 'Welcome to the righteous prophet and the righteous brother.' I said: 'Who is this?' He said: 'This is Jesus son of Mary.' Then I passed by Abraham, and he said: 'Welcome to the righteous prophet and the righteous son.' I said: 'Who is this?' He said: 'This is Abraham ﷺ.' Ibn Shihab said: And Ibn Hazm informed me that Ibn 'Abbas and Abu Habba al-Ansari said: The Messenger of God ﷺ said: "Then I was taken up until I appeared at a level where I could hear the scratching of the pens."

Notes

• آخِرُ مُسْنَدِ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ حَدِيثُ أَبِي ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيِّ ؓ

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

  رجاله رجال الصحيح

  machine translationIts narrators are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21621
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  فقيل لأبي أيهما أشبه قال أنا لا أعدل بالزهري أحدا من أهل عصره قال أبي أرجو أن يكونا جميعا صحيحين وقال مرة حديث الزهري أصح قلت وقد اختلفوا على الزهري قال نعم منهم من يقول عن الزهري عن أنس عن أبي بن كعب والزهري عن أنس عن أبي ذر أصح

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21621
• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه الزهري عن أنس حدث به عنه عقيل ويونس واختلف عن يونس فقال أبو ضمرة عن يونس عن أبي وأحسب سقط عليه ذر فجعله عن أبي بن كعب ووهم فيه وروى هذا الحديث قتادة عن أنس بن مالك عن مالك بن صعصعة وأتى به بطوله وروى بعضه شعبة عن قتادة عن أنس عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قصة النهرين حدث به إبراهيم بن طهمان عن شعبة ويشبه أن تكون الأقاويل كلها صحاحا لأن رواتهم أثبات

  machine translationAl-Zuhrī narrates it from Anas; ʿUqayl and Yūnus related it from him. There is disagreement about Yūnus: Abū Ḍamrah said, from Yūnus, from Abū, and I think that "Dharr" dropped out for him, so he made it from Ubayy b. Kaʿb and was mistaken in it. Qatādah also narrated this hadith from Anas b. Mālik, from Mālik b. Ṣaʿṣaʿah, and he brought it in full. Shuʿbah narrated part of it from Qatādah, from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ, the story of the two rivers; Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān related it from Shuʿbah. It seems that all the accounts are sound, because their narrators are reliable (athbāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21621
• أبو زرعة الرازي

  الزهري عن أنس عن أبي ذر أصح يعني أصح من الزهري عن أنس عن أبي بن كعب

  in مسند أحمد, p. 21621

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3342Sahih al-Bukhari 7121Sahih Muslim 162bSahih Muslim 163Sahih Muslim 157m

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
   في حكم السماع
2. 2
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   قال
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنُ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   قال
4. 4
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يُونُسَ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   عن
5. 5
   Anas b. ʿIyāḍ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 200 AH, Abū Ḥātim Ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī said in « al-Thiqāt » when listing him among them: died in the year 180 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Musayyibī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 236 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمُسَيِّبِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
7. 7
   ʿAbdullāh

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

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