Musnad al-Bazzar 44
✧ Zayd b. Arqam from Abu Bakr
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ قَالَ: نَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ سِنَانٍ قَالَ: نَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَسْلَمَ الْكُوفِيِّ، عَنْ مُرَّةَ الطَّيِّبِ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَرْقَمَ قَالَ:
كُنَّا مَعَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ إِذِ اسْتَسْقَى فَأَتَى بِمَاءٍ وَعَسَلٍ، فَلَمَّا وَضَعَهُ عَلَى يَدِهِ بَكَى وَانْتَحَبَ حَتَّى ظَنَنَّا أَنَّ بِهِ شَيْئًا وَلَا نَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ قُلْنَا: يَا خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللهِ مَا حَمَلَكَ عَلَى هَذَا الْبُكَاءِ ؟ قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا أَنَا مَعُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ إِذْ رَأَيْتُهُ يَدْفَعُ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ، شَيْئًا وَلَا أَرَى شَيْئًا فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ مَا الَّذِي أَرَاكَ تَدْفَعُ عَنْ نَفْسِكِ وَلَا أَرَى شَيْئًا ؟ قَالَ: الدُّنْيَا تَطَوَّلَتْ لِي، فَقُلْتُ: إِلَيْكِ عَنِّي، فَقَالَتْ لِي: أَمَا إِنَّكَ لَسْتَ بِمُدْرِكِي، قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: فَشَقَّ عَلَيَّ وَخَشِيتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ قَدْ خَالَفْتُ أَمْرَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ وَلَحِقَتْنِي الدُّنْيَا
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥusayn
- Ismāʿīl b. Sinān
- ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd
- Aslam al-Kūfī
- Murrah al-Ṭayyib
- Zayd b. Arqam
✧ We were with Abu Bakr ؓ when he asked for water. He was brought water and honey. When he put it to his hand, he wept and sobbed until we thought something was wrong with him, but we did not ask him about anything. When he finished, we said: O successor of the Messenger of Allah, what made you weep? He said: While I was with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I saw him pushing something away from himself, but I saw nothing. I said: O Messenger of Allah, what is it that I see you pushing away from yourself, but I see nothing? He said: The world was extended to me. I said: Away from me! It said to me: Indeed, you will not catch me. Abu Bakr said: It distressed me and I feared that I had contradicted the command of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and the world had caught up with me.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه عبد الواحد بن زيد الزاهد وهو ضعيف عند الجمهور وذكره ابن حبان في الثقات وقال يعتبر حديثه إذا كان فوقه ثقة ودونه ثقة وبقية رجاله ثقات
machine translationIn it is ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd al-Zāhid, who is weak (ḍaʿīf) according to the majority. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt and said: his hadith is to be considered when above him is a trustworthy narrator and below him is a trustworthy narrator. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in مسند البزار, p. 44 - Bazzār
وهذا الحديث لا نعلمه يروى عن رسول الله إلا من هذا الوجه ولا نعلم رواه عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إلا أبو بكر ولا عن أبي بكر إلا زيد بن أرقم ولا عن زيد إلا مرة ولا عن مرة إلا أسلم الكوفي وأسلم رجل ليس بمعروف لا نعلم روى عنه إلا عبد الواحد بن زيد وعبد الواحد بن زيد لم يكن بقوي في الحديث وكان رجلا متعبدا من أهل البصرة لم يكن عند أهل العلم بالحافظ وإنما ذكرنا هذا الحديث على ما فيه من علة لأنا لم نجد له عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم طريقا يروى عنه إلا من هذا الوجه فلذلك كتبناه
machine translationWe do not know this hadith to be narrated from the Messenger of Allah except through this route. We do not know that anyone narrated it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ except Abū Bakr, nor from Abū Bakr except Zayd b. Arqam, nor from Zayd except Murrah, nor from Murrah except Aslam al-Kūfī. Aslam is an unknown man (ghayr maʿrūf); we do not know anyone who narrated from him except ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd was not strong in hadith; he was a devout worshipper from the people of Basra, and was not a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ) according to the people of knowledge. We mentioned this hadith despite the defect in it because we did not find any route for it from the Prophet ﷺ except this one, and for that reason we wrote it down.
in مسند البزار, p. 44 - al-Dhahabi
من مناكيرعبد الواحد بن زيد البصري
machine translationIt is among the objectionable reports (manākīr) of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd al-Baṣrī.
in مسند البزار, p. 44
Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمقال
- a well-known Companiond. 66 AH, also said: 68 AH, also said 65 AH, also said: 60 AHزَيْدِ بْنِ أَرْقَمَصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: died in the time of al-Ḥajjāj, after al-Jamājim, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 76 AHمُرَّةَ الطَّيِّبِثقة عابدعن
- أَسْلَمَ الْكُوفِيِّعن
- d. between 151 AH and 160 AHعَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زَيْدٍنا
- d. between 181 and 190 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ سِنَانٍنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 247 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِثقةحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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