Sahih al-Bukhari 3883
The story of Abu Talib
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ
حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ ؓ قَالَ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ مَا أَغْنَيْتَ عَنْ عَمِّكَ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ يَحُوطُكَ وَيَغْضَبُ لَكَ قَالَ هُوَ فِي ضَحْضَاحٍ مِنْ نَارٍ وَلَوْلاَ أَنَا لَكَانَ فِي الدَّرَكِ الأَسْفَلِ مِنَ النَّارِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- Sufyān
- ʿAbd al-Malik
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥārith
That he said to the Prophet ﷺ "You have not been of any avail to your uncle (Abu Talib) (though) by Allah, he used to protect you and used to become angry on your behalf." The Prophet ﷺ said, "He is in a shallow fire, and had It not been for me, he would have been in the bottom of the (Hell) Fire."
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3885Sahih Muslim 209aMusnad Ahmad 1768al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8160Musnad Abi Ya'la 2048Musnad Abi Ya'la 6701
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 32 AH, or: 33 AH, or: 34 AHالعَبَّاس بن عَبْد المُطَّلِب عَمّ رَسُول اللهصحابيحدثنا
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: They are unanimously agreed upon his trustworthiness (thiqah).d. 62 AH, or 79 AH, or 83 AH, or 84 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْحَارِثِقال ابن عبد البر : أجمعوا على ثقتهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), eloquent, a scholar; his memory changed and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH or 136 AHعَبْدُ الْمَلِكِثقة , فصيح عالم ، تغير حفظه وربما دلسحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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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