Sahih al-Bukhari 4557
Surat Ale-‘Imran (The Family of 'Imran)
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ مَيْسَرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَة َ ؓ ﴿
كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ﴾، قَالَ: خَيْرَ النَّاسِ لِلنَّاسِ، تَأْتُونَ بِهِمْ فِي السَّلاَسِلِ فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ حَتَّى يَدْخُلُوا فِي الإِسْلاَمِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
- Sufyān
- Maysarah
- Abū Ḥāzim
- Abū Hurayrah
Abu Hurayrah said: “You are the best nation brought forth for humankind.” He said: The best people for other people, i.e., while you bring them with chains around their necks until they enter Islam ˹willingly˺.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1839: {كنتم خير أمة أخرجت للناس} قال: خير الناس للناس يأتون بهم في السلاسل في أعناقهم حتى يدخلوا في الإسلام.
Other narrations of this report
al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11033al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6989
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. at the turn of 100 AH, or 101 AH, al-Jāḥiẓ said in the book «al-ʿUrjān»: during Abū Jaʿfar's caliphateأَبِي حَازِمٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)مَيْسَرَةَثقةعن
- 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), virtuous, it is said: he erred in some of the hadith of Sufyān, despite that, he is given precedence in it by them over ʿAbd al-Razzāqd. 212 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاقحدثنا
- 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
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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