Musnad Ahmad 21392

Translation

✧ I said to Abu Dharr, "If I had met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I would have asked him." He said, "About what?" I said, "Have you seen your Lord?" He said, "I have asked him and he responded, 'I saw a light. How could I see Him when He is on the path of affirmation?'"

Notes

• يَعْنِي عَلَى طَرِيقِ الْإِيجَابِ

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Sahih Muslim 178b

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
   أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
   قال
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some hostility toward ʿAlī (naṣb) in himd. during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf over Iraq, or 108 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍثقة ، فيه نصب
   عن
3. 3
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةُ-ثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Ibrāhīm

   Trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), except in his narration from Qatādah, in which there is some weakness (layyin)d. 161 AH or 162 AH or 163 AH
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة ثبت إلا في روايته عن قتادة ففيها لين
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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