Sunan ad-Darimi 2146

Translation

✧ "The first of your religion is prophethood and mercy, then kingship and mercy, then a dust-colored kingship, then a kingship with tyranny, in which wine and silk are deemed lawful."

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو مُحَمَّد سُئِلَ عَنْ أَعْفَرَ فقال يُشَبِّهُهُ بالتُّرَابِ ولَيْسَ فِيهِ خَيْرٌ

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Narrators

1. 1
   Abū ʿUbaydah Ibn al-Jarrāḥ Amīn al-Ummah

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 17 AH, or: 18 AH
   أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ابْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ أَمِينُ الْأُمَّةِصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 75 AH or at the beginning of Muʿāwiyah's caliphate, so he said, and the well-known view is otherwise
   أَبِي ثَعْلَبَةَ الْخُشَنِيِّصحابي
   عن
3. 3
   Makḥūl b. Abī Muslim

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), frequently narrating with omission of the Companion (kathīr al-irsāl), well-known (mashhūr)d. 112 AH, or: 113 AH, or: 114 AH, or: 116 AH, Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus said: it is said 118 AH
   مَكْحُولٍثقة فقيه ، كثير الإرسال ، مشهور
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Wahb

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 132 AH
   أَبُو وَهْبٍصدوق
   حدثني
5. 5
   Yaḥyā b. Ḥamzah

   trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 180 AH, or 183 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 185 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ حَمْزَةَثقة ، رمي بالقدر
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Marwān b. Muḥammad

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 210 AH
   مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   al-Dārimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
   الدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.