Musnad al-Bazzar 8914
✧ What 'Abd al-Rahman al-A'raj narrated from Abu Hurayrah
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وَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
إِذَا تَقَرَّبَ الْعَبْدُ مِنَ اللهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى شِبْرًا تَقَرَّبَ اللهُ مِنْهُ ذِرَاعًا، وَإِذَا تَقَرَّبَ ذِرَاعًا تَقَرَّبَ اللهُ مِنْهُ بَاعًا، وَإِذَا أَقْبَلَ إِلَيَّ يَمْشِي أَقْبَلْتُ إِلَيْهِ أُهَرْوِلُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ When a servant draws near to Allah—Blessed and Exalted—a handspan, Allah draws near to him a cubit; and when he draws near a cubit, Allah draws near to him an arm's length; and when he comes to Me walking, I come to him at speed.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 7536Sahih al-Bukhari 7537Sahih Muslim 2675f
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 57 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHذكوان السمانثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 135 AHزيد بن أسلمثقةعن
- ناtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 162 AH
- ناtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 205 AH
- حدثناtruthful (ṣadūq)d. 274 AH
- d. 291 AH
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.