Musnad al-Bazzar 9703

✧ Abu al-Rabi'

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وَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، نَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، نَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ سِمَاكٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، يَرْفَعُهُ:

إِذَا تَقَرَّبَ الْعَبْدُ إِلَى اللهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى شِبْرًا تَقَرَّبَ إِلَيْهِ ذِرَاعًا.

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✧ When a servant draws near to Allah, Blessed and Exalted, a handspan, He draws near to him a cubit.

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Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
عن
Abū al-Rabīʿ
acceptable (maqbūl)
أَبِي الرَّبِيعِمقبول
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Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī
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 AH
سِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
عن
Shuʿbah
Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
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Abū Dāwūd
trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AH
أَبُو دَاوُدَثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
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ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AH
عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظ
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al-Bazzār
d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AH
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