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
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHذكوان السمانثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AHزيد بن أسلمثقة عالم ، وكان يرسلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that the narrations of the people of Syria from him are not sound (ghayr mustaqīmah), and he was therefore declared weak (ḍuʿʿifa) because of them.d. 162 AHزهير بن محمد التميميثقة ، إلا أن رواية أهل الشام عنه غير مستقيمة ، فضعف بسببهانا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, he authored worksd. 205 AH, also said: 207 AHروح بن عبادة القيسيثقة فاضل ، له تصانيفنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 274 AHعلي بن إبراهيم اليشكريصدوقحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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