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Sahih al-Bukhari 77

At what age may a youth be listened to (i.e. quotation of the Hadith from a boy be acceptable)

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حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُسْهِرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنِي الزُّبَيْدِيُّ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ قَالَ

عَقَلْتُ مِنَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مَجَّةً مَجَّهَا فِي وَجْهِي وَأَنَا ابْنُ خَمْسِ سِنِينَ مِنْ دَلْوٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
  2. Abū Mushir
  3. Muḥammad b. Ḥarb
  4. al-Zubaydī
  5. al-Zuhrī
  6. Maḥmūd b. al-Rabīʿ

When I was a boy of five, I remember, the Prophet ﷺ took water from a bucket (used for getting water out of a well) with his mouth and threw it on my face.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 189Sahih al-Bukhari 6354Sahih al-Bukhari 839Sahih Muslim 33eMusnad Ahmad 23638

Narrators

  1. Maḥmūd b. al-Rabīʿ b. Surāqah al-Khazrajī
    Young Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 96 AH, or 99 AH, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr claimed that he died in the year 79 AH
    مَحْمُود بْن الرَّبِيع بْن سُرَاقَة الْخَزْرَجِيّصحابي صغير
    عن
  2. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  3. al-Zubaydī
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 146 AH or 147 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 148 AH, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Baghdādī said: 149 AH
    الزُّبَيْدِيُّثقة ثبت
    حدثني
  4. Muḥammad b. Ḥarb
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 192 AH or 194 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة
    حدثني
  5. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá b. Mushir al-Ghassānī
    trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 218 AH
    أَبُو مُسْهِرٍثقة فاضل
    حدثنا
  6. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
    trustworthy (thiqah)
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة
    حدثني
  7. 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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Commentaries

شرح مشكل الآثار
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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