al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 1813
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، ثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ حَمْشَاذَ قَالَا: ثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَى، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ الْعَطَّارُ بِمَكَّةَ، ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ مِسْعَرٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ السَّكْسَكِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي أَوْفَى قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
إِنَّ خِيَارَ عِبَادِ اللهِ الَّذِينَ يُرَاعُونَ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ وَالنُّجُومَ وَالْأَظِلَّةَ لِذِكْرِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ
- Abū Bakr b. Isḥāq and ʿAlī b. Ḥamshādh
- Bishr b. Mūsá
- ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAlāʾ al-ʿAṭṭār Bimakkah
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- Misʿar
- Ibrāhīm al-Saksakī
- Ibn Abū Awfá
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
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Indeed, the best of the servants of God are those who watch the sun, the moon, the stars, and the shadows for the remembrance of God, Mighty and Majestic.
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- ابن شاهين
ذكره ابن شاهين من حديث إبراهيم السكسكي عنه وقال هو حديث غريب صحيح
machine translationIbn Shāhīn mentioned it from the hadith of Ibrāhīm al-Saksakī, from him, and he said: it is a rare (gharīb) authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 1813 - الساجي
تفرد به إبراهيم بن عبد الرحمن بن إسماعيل السكسكي
machine translationIbrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ismāʿīl al-Saksakī was alone in narrating it (tafarrada bihi).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 1813
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 80 AH, or 86 AH, or 87 AH, or 88 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَبِي أَوْفَى الْأَسْلَمِيّصحابيعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), weak in memoryd. between 111 and 120 AHإِبْرَاهِيمَ السَّكْسَكِيِّصدوق، ضعيف الحفظعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), virtuous (fāḍil).d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said: 153 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: 155 AHمِسْعَرٍثقة ثبت فاضلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 248 AHعَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ الْعَطَّارُلا بأس بهحدثنا
- d. 288 AHبِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَىحدثنا
- d. 338 AHوَعَلِيُّ بْنُ حَمْشَاذَحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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