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Sahih al-Bukhari 3374

"Or were you witnesses when death approached Yaʿqub (Jacob)?"

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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ سَمِعَ الْمُعْتَمِرَ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ

قِيلَ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ مَنْ أَكْرَمُ النَّاسِ قَالَ أَكْرَمُهُمْ أَتْقَاهُمْ قَالُوا يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ لَيْسَ عَنْ هَذَا نَسْأَلُكَ قَالَ فَأَكْرَمُ النَّاسِ يُوسُفُ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ ابْنُ نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ ابْنِ نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ ابْنِ خَلِيلِ اللَّهِ قَالُوا لَيْسَ عَنْ هَذَا نَسْأَلُكَ قَالَ فَعَنْ مَعَادِنِ الْعَرَبِ تَسْأَلُونِي قَالُوا نَعَمْ قَالَ فَخِيَارُكُمْ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ خِيَارُكُمْ فِي الإِسْلاَمِ إِذَا فَقِهُوا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
  2. al-Muʿtamir
  3. ʿUbaydullāh
  4. Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī
  5. Abū Hurayrah

Some people asked the Prophet: "Who is the most honorable amongst the people?" He replied, "The most honorable among them is the one who is the most Allah-fearing." They said, "O Allah's Prophet! We do not ask about this." He said, "Then the most honorable person is Joseph, Allah's Prophet, the son of Allah's Prophet, the son of Allah's Prophet, the son of Allah's Khalil." They said, "We do not ask about this." He said, "Then you want to ask me about the Arabs' descent?" They said, "Yes." He said, "Those who were best in the pre-lslamic period, are the best in Islam, if they comprehend (the religious knowledge).

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4689Musnad Ahmad 9568Musnad al-Bazzar 8453Musnad Abi Ya'la 6566

Narrators

  1. 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
  2. Saʿīd al-Maqburī
    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
    سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلة
    عن
  3. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar al-ʿUmarī
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 144 AH or 145 AH or 146 AH or 147 AH
    عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت
    عن
  4. Muʿtamir
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AH
    الْمُعْتَمِرَثقة
    سمع
  5. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
    trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
    إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ مجتهد
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  6. al-Bukhārī
    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

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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