Sunan ad-Darimi 2468
✧ The Excellence of Those Who Connect Day and Night
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَقِيلٍ زُهْرَةُ بْنُ مَعْبَدٍ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَ قَالَ
سَمِعْتُ عُثْمَانَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ إِنِّي كُنْتُ كَتَمْتُكُمْ حَدِيثًا سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَرَاهِيَةَ تَفَرُّقِكُمْ عَنِّي ثُمَّ بَدَا لِي أَنْ أُحَدِّثَكُمُوهُ لِيَخْتَارَ امْرُؤٌ لِنَفْسِهِ مَا بَدَا لَهُ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «رِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ يَوْمٍ فِيمَا سِوَاهُ مِنَ الْمَنَازِلِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Walīd
- Layth b. Saʿd
- Abū ʿAqīl Zuhrah b. Maʿbad
- Abū Ṣāliḥ a freed slave of ʿUthmān
✧ I heard Uthman on the pulpit saying: I had concealed from you a hadith I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, disliking that you disperse from me. Then it occurred to me to narrate it to you so that each person may choose for himself what seems best to him. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “A day of ribat in the path of Allah is better than a thousand days elsewhere.”
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةسمعت
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. during the governorship of Muʿāwiyahأَبِي صَالِحٍ - مَوْلَى عُثْمَانَمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 127 AH, also said: 135 AHأَبُو عَقِيلٍ زُهْرَةُ بْنُ مَعْبَدٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AHلَيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهورحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 226 AH, or 227 AH, also said: 229 AHأَبُو الْوَلِيدِثقة ثبتأخبرنا
- 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.