Musnad al-Bazzar 4104
✧ What Fadalah b. 'Ubayd narrated from Abu al-Darda
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حَدَّثَنَا بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا، عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ يَحْيَى، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ ؓ قَالَ:
سَمِعْتُهُ يَحْلِفُ بِاللهِ وَمَا سَمِعْتُهُ يَحْلِفُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ قَطُّ قَبْلَهَا، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ اللهَ اخْتَارَ لَكُمْ أَفْضَلَ الْكَلَامِ أَرْبَعًا: سُبْحَانَ اللهِ، وَالْحَمْدُ لِلهِ، وَلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ، وَاللهُ أَكْبَرُ.
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Chain of narrators
- Baʿḍ Aṣḥābinā
- Isḥāq b. Sulaymān
- Muʿāwiyah b. Yaḥyá
- Yūnus b. Maysarah
- Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
✧ I heard him swear by Allah, and I had never heard him swear about anything before that. He said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'Indeed, Allah has chosen for you the best of speech, four phrases: Glory be to Allah, praise be to Allah, there is no god but Allah, and Allah is most great.'"
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه معاوية بن يحيى الصدفي وهو ضعيف وما روى عنه إسحاق بن سليمان الرازي أضعف وهذا منه
in مسند البزار, p. 4104
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- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلعن
- Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: "He was the scholar of the Levant after Abū al-Dardāʾ."d. 80 AHأَبِي إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلَانِيِّقال سعيد بن عبد العزيز : كان عالم الشام بعد أبى الدرداءعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper.d. 132 AHيُونُسَ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَثقة عابد .عن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), what he narrated in Syria is better than what he narrated in Rayyd. between 151 and 160 AHمُعَاوِيَةَ ج١٠ / ص٣٩بْنِ يَحْيَىضعيف ، وما حدث بالشام أحسن مما حدث بالريعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 199 AH, or 200 AHإِسْحَاقَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَثقة فاضلعن
- بعض أصحابناحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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