Sahih al-Bukhari 7537

Translation

Perhaps the Prophet ﷺ mentioned the following (as Allah's Saying): "If My slave comes nearer to Me for a span, I go nearer to him for a cubit; and if he comes nearer to Me for a cubit; I go nearer to him for the span of outstretched arms. (See Hadith No. 502)

Notes

• وَقَالَ مُعْتَمِرٌ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي سَمِعْتُ أَنَسًا {عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ} عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ يَرْوِيهِ عَنْ رَبِّهِ ﷻ

  machine translationMuʿtamir said: I heard my father say: I heard Anas say, {from Abū Hurayrah}, from the Prophet ﷺ, who related it from his Lord, Mighty and Majestic is He. Report a problem

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 7536Sahih Muslim 2675fMusnad Ahmad 12287Sahih Ibn Hibban 376Musnad al-Bazzar 4006

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Sulaymān b. Ṭarkhān

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 143 AH, or 144 AH
   التَّيْمِيِّثقة عابد
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   عن
5. 5
   Musaddad

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
   مُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
   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

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