Musnad Ahmad 22401
Thawban, the freed servant of the Prophet ﷺ
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا مَيْمُونٌ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ
إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ لَيَلْتَمِسُ مَرْضَاةَ اللهِ، وَلَا يَزَالُ بِذَلِكَ، فَيَقُولُ اللهُ [عَزَّ وَجَلَّ] لِجِبْرِيلَ: إِنَّ فُلَانًا عَبْدِي يَلْتَمِسُ أَنْ يُرْضِيَنِي، أَلَا وَإِنَّ رَحْمَتِي عَلَيْهِ، فَيَقُولُ جِبْرِيلُ: رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَى فُلَانٍ، وَيَقُولُهَا حَمَلَةُ الْعَرْشِ، وَيَقُولُهَا مَنْ حَوْلَهُمْ حَتَّى يَقُولَهَا أَهْلُ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِ، ثُمَّ تَهْبِطُ لَهُ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Bakr
- Maymūn
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbbād
- Thawbān
✧ Indeed a servant keeps seeking Allah's pleasure and does not cease doing so, until Allah [Mighty and Majestic] says to Jibril: 'So-and-so, My servant, is seeking to please Me. Indeed, My mercy is upon him.' Jibril then says: 'Allah's mercy be upon so-and-so,' and the bearers of the Throne say it, and those around them say it, until the inhabitants of the seven heavens say it. Then it descends for him to the earth.
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
ورجاله رجال الصحيح غير ميمون بن عجلان وهو ثقة
in مسند أحمد, p. 22777
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2379وَعَنْ ثَوْبَانَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: " إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ لَيَلْتَمِسُ مَرْضَاةَ اللَّهِ فَلَا يَزَالُ بِذَلِكَ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لجبريل: إِن فلَانا عَبدِي يتلمس أَنْ يُرْضِيَنِي أَلَا وَإِنَّ
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 54 AH, also said: 44 AH, also said 45 AHثَوْبَانُ بْنُ بُجْدُدَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 AH and 110 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍثقةحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), practises concealment (mudallis)d. between 151 and 160 AHمَيْمُونٌصدوق مدلسأخبرنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), may errd. 204 AH, also said 203 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍصدوق قد يخطئحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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