MajelisNoteDalilدليل

Sahih al-Bukhari 120

(What is said regarding) the memorization of (religious) knowledge

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَخِي عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

حَفِظْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وِعَاءَيْنِ فَأَمَّا أَحَدُهُمَا فَبَثَثْتُهُ وَأَمَّا الآخَرُ فَلَوْ بَثَثْتُهُ قُطِعَ هَذَا الْبُلْعُومُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ismāʿīl
  2. my brother
  3. Ibn Abū Dhiʾb
  4. Saʿīd al-Maqburī
  5. Abū Hurayrah

I have memorized two kinds of knowledge from Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I have propagated one of them to you and if I propagated the second, then my pharynx (throat) would be cut (i.e. killed).

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 271وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: «حَفِظْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وِعَاءَيْنِ فَأَمَّا أَحَدُهُمَا فَبَثَثْتُهُ فِيكُمْ وَأَمَّا الْآخَرُ فَلَوْ بَثَثْتُهُ قُطِعَ هَذَا الْبُلْعُومُ يَعْنِ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. 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
  2. Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AH
    سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلة
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir said, from Ibn Abī Fudayk: 158 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said, and others: 159 AH
    ابْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍثقة فقيه فاضل
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 202 AH
    أَخِيثقة
    حدثني
  5. Truthful (ṣadūq); he made mistakes in some hadiths from his memoryd. 226 AH, also said: 227 AH
    إِسْمَاعِيلُصدوق ، أخطأ في أحاديث من حفظه
    حدثنا
  6. a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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