al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21339
✧ Those who said casting lots is done between them when there is no qa'if (physiognomist)
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْأَزْهَرِ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَنْبَأَ الثَّوْرِيُّ عَنْ صَالِحٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ خَيْرٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَرْقَمَ قَالَ:
أُتِيَ عَلِيٌّ ؓ وَهُوَ بِالْيَمَنِ فِي ثَلَاثَةٍ وَقَعُوا عَلَى امْرَأَةٍ فِي طُهْرٍ وَاحِدٍ فَسَأَلَ اثْنَيْنِ أَتُقِرَّانِ لِهَذَا بِالْوَلَدِ فَقَالَا: لَا، ثُمَّ سَأَلَ اثْنَيْنِ فَقَالَ: أَتُقِرَّانِ لِهَذَا بِالْوَلَدِ، قَالَا: لَا، ثُمَّ سَأَلَ اثْنَيْنِ فَقَالَ: أَتُقِرَّانِ لِهَذَا بِالْوَلَدِ، قَالَا: لَا، قَالَ فَجَعَلَ كُلَّمَا سَأَلَ اثْنَيْنِ أَتُقِرَّانِ لِهَذَا بِالْوَلَدِ، قَالَا: لَا، فَأَقْرَعَ بَيْنَهُمْ فَأَلْحَقَ الْوَلَدَ بِالَّذِي صَارَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرْعَةُ وَجَعَلَ عَلَيْهِ ثُلُثَيِ الدِّيَةِ قَالَ فَذُكِرَ ذَلِكَ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَضَحِكَ حَتَّى بَدَتْ نَوَاجِذُهُ
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- a well-known Companiond. 66 AH, also said: 68 AH, also said 65 AH, also said: 60 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ أَرْقَمَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AHعَبْدِ خَيْرٍمخضرم ، ثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmīالشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضلعن
- Aḥmad said: trustworthy, trustworthy (thiqah thiqah), and al-ʿIjlī deemed him trustworthyd. 153 AHصَالِحٍقال أحمد : ثقة ثقة ، ووثقه العجليعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHالثَّوْرِيُّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةأنبأ
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq); he used to memorize, then he grew old, so his book became more reliable than his memory.d. 258 AH, or 261 AH, or 263 AHأَبُو الْأَزْهَرِصدوق ، كان يحفظ , ثم كبر فصار كتابه أثبت من حفظهحدثنا
- أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُأنبأ
- d. 410 AHأَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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