Sahih al-Bukhari 5767
Some eloquent speech is as effective as magic
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ
أَنَّهُ قَدِمَ رَجُلاَنِ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ فَخَطَبَا فَعَجِبَ النَّاسُ لِبَيَانِهِمَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ مِنَ الْبَيَانِ لَسِحْرًا أَوْ إِنَّ بَعْضَ الْبَيَانِ لَسِحْرٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Yūsuf
- Mālik
- Zayd b. Aslam
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar
Two men came from the East and addressed the people who wondered at their eloquent speeches On that Messenger of Allah ﷺ said. Some eloquent speech is as effective as magic.'
Notes
ـ أَوْ ـ إِنَّ بَعْضَ الْبَيَانِ لَسِحْرٌ
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 5146Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2028Musnad Ahmad 4651Musnad Ahmad 5291Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1991al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 980
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AHزَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسلعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتينأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), among the most reliable of people in the Muwaṭṭaʾd. 218 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة متقن ، من أثبت الناس في الموطأحدثنا
- 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
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Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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