Sahih al-Bukhari 4922

Translation

I asked Abu Salamah b. Abd al-Rahman about the first part of the Quran that was revealed. He said, "O you who are covered up." I said, "They say it was: 'Read in the name of your Lord who created.'" Abu Salamah then said: I asked Jabir b. Abdullah ᴿᴬ about that, and I said to him the same as you said. Jabir said: I will only narrate to you what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ narrated to us.  He said: "I stayed in seclusion at Hira. When I had completed my period of seclusion, I came down and was called. I looked to my right but saw nothing; I looked to my left but saw nothing; I looked in front of me but saw nothing; and I looked behind me but saw nothing. Then I raised my head and saw something. So I went to Khadijah and said: Cover me up, and pour cold water over me." He said: "So they covered me up and poured cold water over me." He said: "Then it was revealed: 'O you who are covered up. Arise and warn. And magnify your Lord.'"

Notes

• حَدَّثَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، قَالَ: «جَاوَرْتُ بِحِرَاءٍ، فَلَمَّا قَضَيْتُ جِوَارِي هَبَطْتُ، فَنُودِيتُ، فَنَظَرْتُ عَنْ يَمِينِي فَلَمْ أَرَ شَيْئًا، وَنَظَرْتُ عَنْ شِمَالِي فَلَمْ أَرَ شَيْئًا، وَنَظَرْتُ أَمَامِي فَلَمْ أَرَ شَيْئًا، وَنَظَرْتُ خَلْفِي فَلَمْ أَرَ شَيْئًا، فَرَفَعْتُ رَأْسِي فَرَأَيْتُ شَيْئًا، فَأَتَيْتُ خَدِيجَةَ فَقُلْتُ: دَثِّرُونِي، وَصُبُّوا عَلَىَّ مَاءً بَارِدًا». قَالَ: «فَدَثَّرُونِي، وَصَبُّوا عَلَىَّ مَاءً بَارِدًا». قَالَ: «فَنَزَلَتْ: ﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ قُمْ فَأَنْذِرْ وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ﴾».

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• Misykatul Mashabih 5851عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا سَلَمَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَوَّلِ مَا نزل من الْقُرْآن؟ قَالَ: [يَا أَيهَا المدثر] قلت: يَقُولُونَ: [اقْرَأ باسم ربِّك] قَالَ أَبُو سَلَمَةَ: سَأَلْتُ جَابِرًا عَنْ ذَلِكَ. و

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4956Sahih Muslim 160aMusannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36966al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17794al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2873al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3953

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   سألت
2. 2
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أبو سلمة بن عبد الرحمنثقة ، مكثر
   سألت
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. Abī Kathīr

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAlī b. al-Mubārak

   trustworthy (thiqah), he had two books from Yaḥyā b. Abī Kathīr: one heard directly, and the other mursal. So the hadith of the Kufans from him has something in itd. between 151 and 160 AH
   عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ، كان له عن يحيى بن أبي كثير كتابان : أحدهما سماع ، والآخر إرسال . فحديث الكوفيين عنه فيه شيء
   عن
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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