Sahih al-Bukhari 3755
The merits of Bilal bin Rabah, the freed slave of Abu Bakr ᴿᴬ
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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنْ قَيْسٍ
أَنَّ بِلاَلاً قَالَ لأَبِي بَكْرٍ إِنْ كُنْتَ إِنَّمَا اشْتَرَيْتَنِي لِنَفْسِكَ فَأَمْسِكْنِي وَإِنْ كُنْتَ إِنَّمَا اشْتَرَيْتَنِي لِلَّهِ فَدَعْنِي وَعَمَلَ اللَّهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Numayr
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd
- Ismāʿīl
- Qays
Bilal said to Abu Bakr, "If you have bought me for yourself then keep me (for yourself), but if you have bought me for Allah's Sake, then leave me for Allah's Work."
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1011Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33003Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20489
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn); he witnessed Badr and the other battlesd. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī and others said: the year 20 AH, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: the year 17 AH or 18 AHبِلَالُ بْنُ رَبَاحٍ سَابِقُ الْحَبَشَةِمن السابقين الأولين ، شهد بدرا والمشاهدأن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 84 AH, or: 86 AH, or: 97 AH, or: 98 AHقَيْسٍثقةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), with a good memory (yaḥfaẓ).d. 203 AH, or 204 AH, or 205 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍثقة يحفظعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 234 AHابْنُ نُمَيْرٍثقة حافظ فاضلحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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