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Sahih al-Bukhari 4427

The letter of the Prophet ﷺ to Kisra (Khosrau) and Qaiser (Caesar)

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنِ السَّائِبِ

أَذْكُرُ أَنِّي خَرَجْتُ مَعَ الصِّبْيَانِ نَتَلَقَّى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ إِلَى ثَنِيَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ مَقْدَمَهُ مِنْ غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad
  2. Sufyān
  3. al-Zuhrī
  4. al-Sāʾib

I remember I went out with the boys to Thaniyat-ul-Wadaʿ to receive the Prophet ﷺ when he returned from the Ghazwa of Tabuk.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3083Sahih al-Bukhari 4426Sunan Abi Dawud 2779Musnad Ahmad 15721al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6712al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18659

Narrators

  1. al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd al-Kindī
    Young Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 82 AH. Also said: after the nineties; it is said: 91 AH; also said: 94 AH; Ibn Abī Dāwūd said: he was the last of the Companions to die in Medina, Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān erred and listed him among those killed on the day of al-Ḥarrah, al-Wāqidī said: 91 AH; others said: 86 AH. Also said: 88 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 82 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in the section 90 AH to 100 AH, in «Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ's book»: 86 AH, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: 97 AH, in «Tārīkh Ibn Abī Khaythamah al-Awsaṭ»: 80 AH
    السَّائِب بن يَزِيد الكِنْدِيّصحابي صغير
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  2. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  3. 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
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  4. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ); he compiled the Musnadd. before 220 AH, or 229 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة حافظ ، جمع المسند
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  5. 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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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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