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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 11980

✧ People disputing over the width of a dead road leading to what they revived

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( وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، قَالَا: ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ شَاكِرٍ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَابِقٍ، ثَنَا الْمِنْهَالُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ أَبُو قُدَامَةَ، عَنْ سِمَاكٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ:

" إِذَا شَكَكْتُمْ فِي طَرِيقٍ فَاجْعَلُوا سَبْعَةَ أَذْرُعٍ، تَخْتَلِفُ فِيهِ الْحَامِلَتَانِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ and ʾAbū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr
  2. Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
  3. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Shākir
  4. Muḥammad b. Sābiq
  5. al-Minhāl b. Khalīfah Abū Qudāmah
  6. Simāk
  7. ʿIkrimah
  8. Ibn ʿAbbās
  9. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

Machine translation, not reviewed

"If you are in doubt about the width of a road, make it seven cubits, in which two laden (animals) pass each other

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Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
    عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
    عن
  3. Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī
    Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
    سِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
    عن
  4. al-Minhāl b. Khalīfah
    weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 151 and 160 AH
    الْمِنْهَالُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ أَبُو قُدَامَةَضعيف
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  5. Muḥammad b. Sābiq
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 213 AH or 214 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَابِقٍصدوق
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  6. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Shākir
    trustworthy (thiqah), knowledgeable in hadithd. 279 AH
    جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ شَاكِرٍثقة ، عارف بالحديث
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  7. Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
    d. 346 AH
    أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ
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  8. Abū Saʿīd b. Abī ʿAmr
    d. 421 AH
    وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو
    أخبرنا
  9. al-Bayhaqī
    d. 458 AH
    البيهقي

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