Sahih al-Bukhari 7281

Translation

Some angels came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was sleeping. Some of them said, "He is sleeping." Others said, "His eyes are sleeping but his heart is awake." Then they said, "There is an example for this companion of yours." One of them said, "Then set forth an example for him." Some of them said, "He is sleeping." The others said, "His eyes are sleeping but his heart is awake." Then they said, "His example is that of a man who has built a house and then offered therein a banquet and sent an inviter (messenger) to invite the people. So whoever accepted the invitation of the inviter, entered the house and ate of the banquet, and whoever did not accept the invitation of the inviter, did not enter the house, nor did he eat of the banquet." Then the angels said, "Interpret this example to him so that he may understand it." Some of them said, "He is sleeping.'' The others said, "His eyes are sleeping but his heart is awake." And then they said, "The houses stands for Paradise and the call maker is Muhammad; and whoever obeys Muhammad, obeys Allah; and whoever disobeys Muhammad, disobeys Allah. Muhammad separated the people (i.e., through his message, the good is distinguished from the bad, and the believers from the disbelievers).

Notes

• تَابَعَهُ قُتَيْبَةُ عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ خَالِدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِلاَلٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ خَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 144عَن جَابر بن عبد الله يَقُول جَاءَتْ مَلَائِكَةٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ نَائِم فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِنَّهُ نَائِمٌ وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ إِنَّ الْعَيْنَ نَائِمَة وَالْقلب يقظان فَقَالُوا إِنَّ لِصَاحِبِكُمْ هَ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 138Sahih al-Bukhari 2013Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2861al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 392al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4506

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
   سمعت
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. Mīnāʾ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 AH and 120 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ مِينَاءَثقة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Sulaym b. Ḥayyān

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَيَّانَثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُثقة متقن عابد .
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. ʿUbādah al-Wāsiṭī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), virtuous (fāḍil)d. between 251 AH and 260 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَادَةَصدوق فاضل
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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