Musnad al-Bazzar 1325
✧ from what al-Ahnaf b. Qays narrated from al-Abbas
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وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ عَبَّادُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ: نَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَوْرٍ قَالَ: نَا سِمَاكٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ، عَنِ الْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ
أَنَّهُ زَعَمَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ جَالِسًا فِي الْبَطْحَاءِ فِي عِصَابَةٍ، وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ جَالِسٌ مَعَهُمْ، إِذْ مَرَّتْ عَلَيْهِمْ سَحَابَةٌ فَنَظَرُوا إِلَيْهَا، فَقَالَ: رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَا اسْمُ هَذِهِ ؟، قَالُوا: نَعَمِ، السَّحَابُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ، ﷺ: " نَعَمْ، وَالْمُزْنُ وَالْعَنَانُ " ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " تَدْرُونَ كَمْ بُعْدُ مَا بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ ؟ "، قَالُوا: لَا وَاللهِ مَا نَدْرِي قَالَ: " بُعْدُ مَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِمَّا وَاحِدٌ، وَإِمَّا اثْنَانِ، وَإِمَّا ثَلَاثٌ وَسَبْعُونَ سَنَةً، وَالسَّمَاءُ الَّتِي تَلِيهَا كَذَلِكَ "، حَتَّى عَدَّ لَهُمْ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ كَذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: " فَوْقَ السَّابِعَةِ بَحْرٌ مِنْ أَعْلَاهُ إِلَى أَسْفَلِهِ مَا بَيْنَ سَمَاءٍ إِلَى سَمَاءٍ، ثُمَّ فَوْقَ ذَلِكَ ثَمَانِيَةُ أَوْعَالٍ مَا بَيْنَ أَظْلَافِهِنَّ إِلَى رُكَبِهِنَّ مَا بَيْنَ سَمَاءٍ إِلَى سَمَاءٍ، وَفَوْقَ ظُهُورِهِنَّ الْعَرْشُ مَا بَيْنَ أَسْفَلِهِ وَأَعْلَاهُ مَا بَيْنَ سَمَاءٍ إِلَى سَمَاءٍ، وَاللهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى فَوْقَ ذَلِكَ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAbbād b. Yaʿqūb
- al-Walīd b. Abū Thawr
- Simāk
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmīrah
- al-Aḥnaf b. Qays
- al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
✧ He claimed that he was sitting in al-Batha' with a group of people, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was sitting with them, when a cloud passed over them and they looked at it. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Do you know the name of this?" They said: "Yes, al-sahab (the cloud)." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Yes, and al-muzn and al-'anan." Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to them: "Do you know how much is the distance between the heaven and the earth?" They said: "No, by Allah, we do not know." He said: "The distance between them is either one, or two, or seventy-three years, and the heaven that is next to it is likewise," until he counted for them seven heavens in this manner. Then he said: "Above the seventh heaven is a sea, from its top to its bottom is like what is between one heaven and another. Then above that are eight mountain goats, the distance between their hooves and their knees is like what is between one heaven and another, and above their backs is the Throne, the distance between its bottom and its top is like what is between one heaven and another, and Allah, Blessed and Exalted, is above that."
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
لا أعلم في هذا الباب حديثا مرفوعا إلا حديث عبد الله بن عميرة وهو حديث مشهور بهذا الإسناد رواه عن سماك جماعة منهم أبو خالد الدالاني وعمر وابن أبي عمرو بن أبي قيس وشعيب بن أبي خالد وابن أبي المقدام وإبراهيم بن طهمان والوليد بن أبي ثور
machine translationI do not know of any raised (marfūʿ) ḥadīth on this topic except the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmayrah, and it is a well-known (mashhūr) ḥadīth with this chain. A group narrated it from Simāk, among them Abū Khālid al-Dālānī, ʿUmar and Ibn Abī ʿAmr b. Abī Qays, Shuʿayb b. Abī Khālid, Ibn Abī al-Miqdām, Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān and al-Walīd b. Abī Thawr.
in مسند البزار, p. 1325 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
فيه عن سماك اختلاف قال البخاري لا يعلم له سماع من الأحنف
machine translationThere is disagreement about it from Simāk. al-Bukhārī said: It is not known that he heard from al-Aḥnaf.
in مسند البزار, p. 1325
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 32 AH, or: 33 AH, or: 34 AHالعَبَّاس بن عَبْد المُطَّلِب عَمّ رَسُول اللهصحابيعن
- a mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. it is said: 67 AH, or: 68 AH, also said: 71 AH, also said: 72 AHالْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍمخضرم ثقةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَمقبولعن
- 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 AHسِمَاكٌصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقننا
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 172 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَوْرٍضعيفنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 250 AHعَبَّادُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَصدوقحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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