Sunan ad-Darimi 2
✧ What were people before the Prophet's mission ﷺ from ignorance and misguidance
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ النَّضْرِ الرَّمْلِيُّ عَنْ مَسَرَّةَ بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ مِنْ بَنِي الْحَارِثِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحَرَامِ مِنْ لَخْمٍ عَنِ الْوَضِينِ
أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا كُنَّا أَهْلَ جَاهِلِيَّةٍ وَعِبَادَةِ أَوْثَانٍ فَكُنَّا نَقْتُلُ الْأَوْلَادَ وَكَانَتْ عِنْدِي بِنْتٌ لِي فَلَمَّا أَجَابَتْ وَكَانَتْ مَسْرُورَةً بِدُعَائِي إِذَا دَعَوْتُهَا فَدَعَوْتُهَا يَوْمًا فَاتَّبَعَتْنِي فَمَرَرْتُ حَتَّى أَتَيْتُ بِئْرًا مِنْ أَهْلِي غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ فَأَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهَا فَرَدَّيْتُ بِهَا فِي الْبِئْرِ وَكَانَ آخِرَ عَهْدِي بِهَا أَنْ تَقُولَ يَا أَبَتَاهُ يَا أَبَتَاهُ فَبَكَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَتَّى وَكَفَ دَمْعُ عَيْنَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ جُلَسَاءِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحْزَنْتَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ لَهُ «كُفَّ فَإِنَّهُ يَسْأَلُ عَمَّا أَهَمَّهُ» ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ أَعِدْ عَلَيَّ حَدِيثَكَ فَأَعَادَهُ فَبَكَى حَتَّى وَكَفَ الدَّمْعُ مِنْ عَيْنَيْهِ عَلَى لِحْيَتِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ «إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ وَضَعَ عَنِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ مَا عَمِلُوا فَاسْتَأْنِفْ عَمَلَكَ»
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Chain of narrators
- al-Walīd b. al-Naḍr al-Ramlī
- Masarrah b. Maʿbad Min Banī al-Ḥārith b. Abū al-Ḥarām Min Lakhm
- al-Waḍīn
✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, “O Messenger of Allah, we were people of ignorance and idol worship. We used to kill children. I had a daughter of mine, and when she could respond—she was happy when I called her—I called her one day and she followed me. I went on until I came to a well belonging to my family, not far away. I took her by the hand and threw her into the well. The last thing I knew of her was her saying, ‘O my father, O my father.’” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wept until tears overflowed from his eyes. A man from among those sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, “You have made the Messenger of Allah ﷺ grieve.” He said to him, “Stop, for he is asking about what concerns him.” Then he said to him, “Repeat your story to me.” He repeated it, and he wept until tears overflowed from his eyes onto his beard. Then he said to him, “Allah has lifted from the ignorance what they did, so start your work anew.”
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Narrators
- truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), and accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 147 AH, or 149 AH, or 156 AH, Muʿāwiyah b. Ṣāliḥ al-Ashʿarī said: died in the year 150-odd AH, and it is an error in which no one followed himالْوَضِين بْن عَطَاءصدوق سيئ الحفظ ، ورمي بالقدرعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. between 151 and 160 AHمَسَرَّةَ بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ ، مِنْ بَنِي الْحَارِثِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحَرَامِ مِنْ لَخْمٍصدوق له أوهامعن
- d. between 211 and 220 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ النَّضْرِ الرَّمْلِيُّأخبرنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.