Sahih al-Bukhari 3570
The eyes of the Prophet ﷺ used to sleep, but his heart used not to sleep
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَخِي عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ شَرِيكِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي نَمِرٍ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يُحَدِّثُنَا عَنْ
لَيْلَةِ أُسْرِيَ بِالنَّبِيِّ ﷺ مِنْ مَسْجِدِ الْكَعْبَةِ جَاءَ ثَلاَثَةُ نَفَرٍ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُوحَى إِلَيْهِ وَهُوَ نَائِمٌ فِي مَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ فَقَالَ أَوَّلُهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ هُوَ فَقَالَ أَوْسَطُهُمْ هُوَ خَيْرُهُمْ وَقَالَ آخِرُهُمْ خُذُوا خَيْرَهُمْ فَكَانَتْ تِلْكَ فَلَمْ يَرَهُمْ حَتَّى جَاءُوا لَيْلَةً أُخْرَى فِيمَا يَرَى قَلْبُهُ وَالنَّبِيُّ ﷺ نَائِمَةٌ عَيْنَاهُ وَلاَ يَنَامُ قَلْبُهُ وَكَذَلِكَ الأَنْبِيَاءُ تَنَامُ أَعْيُنُهُمْ وَلاَ تَنَامُ قُلُوبُهُمْ فَتَوَلاَّهُ جِبْرِيلُ ثُمَّ عَرَجَ بِهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl
- my brother
- Sulaymān
- Sharīk b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Namir
- Anas b. Mālik Yuḥaddithunā
I heard Anas bin Malik telling us about the night when the Prophet ﷺ was made to travel from the Kaʿba Mosque. Three persons (i.e. angels) came to the Prophet ﷺ before he was divinely inspired was an Aspostle), while he was sleeping in Al Masjid-ul-Haram. The first (of the three angels) said, "Which of them is he?" The second said, "He is the best of them." That was all that happened then, and he did not see them till they came at another night and he perceived their presence with his heart, for the eyes of the Prophet ﷺ were closed when he was asleep, but his heart was not asleep (not unconscious). This is characteristic of all the prophets: Their eyes sleep but their hearts do not sleep. Then Gabriel took charge of the Prophet ﷺ and ascended along with him to the Heaven.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 138Sahih al-Bukhari 2013Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2861al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 392al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4506
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. around 140 AH, or 144 AHشَرِيكِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي نَمِرٍصدوق يخطئعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 172 AH, or: 177 AHسُلَيْمَانَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 202 AHأَخِيثقةحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq); he made mistakes in some hadiths from his memoryd. 226 AH, also said: 227 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُصدوق ، أخطأ في أحاديث من حفظهحدثنا
- 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 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
شرح مشكل الآثار
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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