Sunan ad-Darimi 14
✧ How was the beginning of the Prophet's ﷺ affair?
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْقُرَشِيُّ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيِّ قَالَ
قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّكَ نَبِيٌّ حَتَّى اسْتَيْقَنْتَ؟ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ أَتَانِي مَلَكَانِ وَأَنَا بِبَعْضِ بَطْحَاءِ مَكَّةَ فَوَقَعَ أَحَدُهُمَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَكَانَ الْآخَرُ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ أَهُوَ هُوَ؟ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ زِنْهُ بِرَجُلٍ فَوُزِنْتُ بِهِ فَوَزَنْتُهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ فَزِنْهُ بِعَشَرَةٍ فَوُزِنْتُ بِهِمْ فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ زِنْهُ بِمِائَةٍ فَوُزِنْتُ بِهِمْ فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ زِنْهُ بِأَلْفٍ فَوُزِنْتُ بِهِمْ فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمْ يَنْتَثِرُونَ عَلَيَّ مِنْ خِفَّةِ الْمِيزَانِ قَالَ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ لَوْ وَزَنْتَهُ بِأُمَّتِهِ لَرَجَحَهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿImrān
- Abū Dāwud
- Jaʿfar b. ʿUthmān al-Qurashī
- ʿUmar b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr
- his father
- Abū Dhar al-Ghifārī
✧ I said, “O Messenger of Allah, how did you know that you were a prophet until you became certain?” He said, “O Abū Dharr, two angels came to me while I was in a part of the valley of Makkah. One of them fell to the ground, and the other was between heaven and earth. One of them said to the other, ‘Is it he?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Weigh him against a man.’ I was weighed against him, and I outweighed him. Then he said, ‘Weigh him against ten.’ I was weighed against them, and I outweighed them. Then he said, ‘Weigh him against a hundred.’ I was weighed against them, and I outweighed them. Then he said, ‘Weigh him against a thousand.’ I was weighed against them, and I outweighed them. It was as if I could see them scattering over me from the lightness of the scale.” He said, “Then one of them said to the other, ‘If you weighed him against his community, he would outweigh them.’”
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- Bazzār
ولا نعلم سمع عروة من أبي ذر
machine translationWe do not know that ʿUrwah heard from Abū Dharr.
in مسند الدارمي, p. 14
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 5774وَعَن أبي ذرّ الْغِفَارِيّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّكَ نَبِيٌّ حَتَّى اسْتَيْقَنْتَ؟ فَقَالَ: " يَا أَبَا ذَر أَتَانِي ملكان وَأَنا ب بعض بطحاء مَكَّة فَوَقع أَحدهمَا على الْأَرْضِ وَكَانَ الْآخَرُ بَيْنَ السَ
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHأَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهورعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. 110 AHعُمَرَ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِمقبولعن
- جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْقُرَشِيُّحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديثحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 231 and 240 AH, or 241 AH 250 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عِمْرَانَصدوقأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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