Sahih al-Bukhari 7221
The appointment of a caliph
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنِي قَيْسُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ طَارِقِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ
قَالَ لِوَفْدِ بُزَاخَةَ تَتْبَعُونَ أَذْنَابَ الإِبِلِ حَتَّى يُرِيَ اللَّهُ خَلِيفَةَ نَبِيِّهِ ﷺ وَالْمُهَاجِرِينَ أَمْرًا يَعْذِرُونَكُمْ بِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- Sufyān
- Qays b. Muslim
- Ṭāriq b. Shihāb
- Abū Bakr
Abu Bakr said to the delegate of Buzakha. "Follow the tails of the camels till Allah shows the Caliph (successor) of His Prophet and Al-Muhajirin (emigrants) something because of which you may excuse yourselves."
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Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمعن
- Abū Dāwūd said: He saw the Prophet ﷺ, but did not hear from him.d. 80 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān was certain of it, or: 84 AH, also said 123 AH, which is a mistake.طَارِقِ بْنِ شِهَابٍقال أبو داود : رأى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ، ولم يسمع منهعن
- firm (thabt), trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Irjāʾd. 120 AHقَيْسُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثبت , ثقة رمي بالإرجاءحدثني
- 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), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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