Sahih al-Bukhari 6489
Paradise is nearer to anyone of you than the Shirak of his shoe, and so is the Fire.
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حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا غُنْدَرٌ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
«أَصْدَقُ بَيْتٍ قَالَهُ الشَّاعِرُ: أَلاَ كُلُّ شَىْءٍ مَا خَلاَ اللَّهَ بَاطِلُ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná
- Ghundar
- Shuʿbah
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: "The truest verse spoken by a poet is: 'Indeed, everything apart from Allah ﷻ is false.'"
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3841Sahih Muslim 2256bSahih Muslim 2256cSunan Ibn Majah 3757Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26537
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), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eloquent, a scholar; his memory changed and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH or 136 AHعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍثقة , فصيح عالم ، تغير حفظه وربما دلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AHغُنْدَرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 252 AH, also said: 250 AH, also said: 251 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّىثقة ثبتحدثني
- 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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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