Sahih al-Bukhari 3852

Translation

I came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was leaning against his sheet cloak in the shade of the Kaʿba. We were suffering greatly from the pagans in those days. i said (to him). "Will you invoke Allah (to help us)?" He sat down with a red face and said, "(A believer among) those who were before you used to be combed with iron combs so that nothing of his flesh or nerves would remain on his bones; yet that would never make him desert his religion. A saw might be put over the parting of his head which would be split into two parts, yet all that would never make him abandon his religion. Allah will surely complete this religion (i.e. Islam) so that a traveler from Sana to Hadra-maut will not be afraid of anybody except Allah." (The sub-narrator, Baiyan added, "Or the wolf, lest it should harm his sheep.")

Notes

• زَادَ بَيَانٌ وَالذِّئْبَ عَلَى غَنَمِهِ

  machine translationBayān added: "and the wolf, over its sheep." Report a problem

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3612Sahih al-Bukhari 6943Sunan Abi Dawud 2649Sunan an-Nasa'i 5320Musnad Ahmad 21057

Narrators

1. 1
   Khabbāb b. al-Aratt al-Tamīmī

   among the first to embrace Islam, and he was tortured for the sake of Allah, and he was present at Badrd. 37 AH, also said: 19 AH, also said: 39 AH
   خَبَّاب بْن الأَرَتّ التَّمِيمِيّمن السابقين إلى الإسلام ، وكان يعذب في الله ، وشهد بدرا
   سمعت
2. 2
   Qays b. Abī Ḥāzim

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 84 AH, or: 86 AH, or: 97 AH, or: 98 AH
   قَيْسًاثقة
   سمعنا
3. 3
   Ismāʿīl b. Abī Khālid

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AH
   وَإِسْمَاعِيلُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   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 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Ḥumaydī

   trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓ, jurist, the most eminent of Ibn ʿUyaynah's studentsd. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   الْحُمَيْدِيُّثقة حافظ فقيه ، أجل أصحاب ابن عيينة
   حدثنا
6. 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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