Sahih al-Bukhari 3636
The miracle of the splitting of the moon
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حَدَّثَنَا صَدَقَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ قَالَ
انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ شِقَّتَيْنِ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: «اشْهَدُوا».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ṣadaqah b. al-Faḍl
- Ibn ʿUyaynah
- Ibn Abī Najīḥ
- Mujāhid
- Abū Maʿmar
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
The moon split into two parts during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and the Prophet ﷺ said: "Bear witness."
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2800bSahih Muslim 2801aMusnad al-Bazzar 1639Musnad al-Tayalisi 278Musnad Abi Ya'la 5072
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of ʿUbayd Allāh b. Ziyād, or 62 AHأَبِي مَعْمَرٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and sometimes committed tadlīs (obscuring the source of a report)d. 131 AH, or 132 AHابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍثقة رمي بالقدر وربما دلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Ibn Ḥajar said: 223 AH, or 226 AHصَدَقَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِثقةحدثنا
- 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
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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