al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14513
✧ Taking payment for the Book of Allah
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَمْرٍو: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَدِيبُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْإِسْمَاعِيلِيُّ، ثَنَا عِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُوسَى، ثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ الْقَوَارِيرِيُّ: ثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ أَبُو مَعْشَرٍ الْبَرَّاءُ، ثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْأَخْنَسِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ:
أَنَّ نَفَرًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ مَرُّوا بِحَيٍّ مِنْ أَحْيَاءِ الْعَرَبِ، وَفِيهِمْ لَدِيغٌ أَوْ سَلِيمٌ فَقَالُوا: هَلْ فِيكُمْ مِنْ رَاقٍ، فَإِنَّ فِي الْمَاءِ لَدِيغًا أَوْ سَلِيمًا، فَانْطَلَقَ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ فَرَقَاهُ عَلَى شَاءٍ، فَبَرَأَ، فَلَمَّا أَتَى أَصْحَابَهُ كَرِهُوا ذَاكَ وَقَالُوا: أَخَذْتَ عَلَى كِتَابِ اللهِ أَجْرًا، فَلَمَّا قَدِمُوا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَتَى رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِذَلِكَ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الرَّجُلَ فَسَأَلَهُ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ إِنَّا مَرَرْنَا بِحَيٍّ مِنْ أَحْيَاءِ الْعَرَبِ وَفِيهِمْ لَدِيغٌ أَوْ سَلِيمٌ فَقَالُوا: هَلْ فِيكُمْ مِنْ رَاقٍ فَرَقَيْتُهُ بِفَاتِحَةِ الْكِتَابِ فَبَرَأَ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ: إِنَّ أَحَقَّ مَا أَخَذْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا كِتَابُ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Adīb Anbaʾ Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī
- ʿImrān b. Mūsá
- ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar b. Maysarah al-Qawārīrī
- Yūsuf b. Yazīd Abū Maʿshar al-Barrāʾ
- ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Akhnas
- ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Mulaykah
- Ibn ʿAbbās
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A group of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by one of the Arab tribes, and among them was a person who had been stung or bitten. They said: "Is there among you a reciter of ruqyah? For at the water there is a person who has been stung or bitten." So one of the men went and recited ruqyah over a flock of sheep, and he recovered. When he came back to his companions, they disliked that and said: "You took payment for the Book of Allah!" Then when they came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and informed him of that. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ called the man and asked him, and he said: "O Messenger of Allah, we passed by one of the Arab tribes, and among them was a person who had been stung or bitten. They said: 'Is there among you a reciter of ruqyah?' So I recited ruqyah over him with Fātiḥat al-Kitāb, and he recovered." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The most deserving thing for which you may take payment is the Book of Allah, Mighty and Majestic."
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- Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
حديث ابن عباس أصح إسنادا منه حديث عبادة
machine translationThe hadith of Ibn ʿAbbās is sounder in its chain of transmission (isnād) than the hadith of ʿUbādah.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 14513
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- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 117 AH, also said: 118 AH, and al-Dhahabī stated it definitivelyعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَثقة فقيهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 141 AH and 150 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْأَخْنَسِصدوقحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. between 171 and 180 AHيُوسُفُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ أَبُو مَعْشَرٍ الْبَرَّاءُصدوق ربما أخطأحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 233 AH or 234 AH or 235 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ الْقَوَارِيرِيُّثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 305 AHعِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُوسَىحدثنا
- d. 371 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الْإِسْمَاعِيلِيُّأنبأ
- d. 427 AHأَبُو عَمْرٍو : مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَدِيبُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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