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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
  1. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
  2. Sufyān
  3. Maysarah
  4. Abū Ḥāzim
  5. 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

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. at the turn of 100 AH, or 101 AH, al-Jāḥiẓ said in the book «al-ʿUrjān»: during Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate
    أَبِي حَازِمٍثقة
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah)
    مَيْسَرَةَثقة
    عن
  4. 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 AH
    سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    عن
  5. 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 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاق
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  6. 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

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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