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Sunan ad-Darimi 2482

✧ In the company of the best friends, palaces, and armies

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّلْتِ حَدَّثَنَا حِبَّانُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ يُونُسَ وَعُقَيْلٍ عَنْ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

«خَيْرُ الْأَصْحَابِ أَرْبَعَةٌ وَخَيْرُ الْجُيُوشِ أَرْبَعَةُ آلَافٍ وَخَيْرُ السَّرَايَا أَرْبَعُ مِائَةٍ وَمَا بَلَغَ اثْنَي عَشَرَ أَلْفًا فَصَبَرُوا وَصَدَقُوا فَغُلِبُوا مِنْ قِلَّةٍ»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣalt
  2. Ḥibbān b. ʿAlī
  3. Yūnus and ʿUqayl
  4. Ibn Shihāb
  5. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh
  6. Ibn ʿAbbās
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

✧ The best of companions are four, the best of armies are four thousand, and the best of raiding parties are four hundred. And any [force] that reaches twelve thousand, and they are patient and sincere, they will not be defeated due to small numbers.

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  • Dāraquṭnī

    يرويه أبو سلمة العاملي عن الزهري عن أنس وأبو سلمة هذا عندنا هو الحكم بن عبد الله بن خطاف وهو متروك الحديث وروي عن عباد بن كثير عن عقيل عن الزهري عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله عن ابن عباس والمحفوظ عن الزهري المرسل

    machine translationAbū Salamah al-ʿĀmilī narrates it from al-Zuhrī, from Anas. This Abū Salamah, in our view, is al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbdillāh b. Khaṭṭāf, and he is abandoned in ḥadīth (matrūk al-ḥadīth). It is also narrated from ʿAbbād b. Kathīr, from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdillāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās. But what is preserved (maḥfūẓ) from al-Zuhrī is the mursal version.

    in مسند الدارمي, p. 2477

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 2827

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
    عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة فقيه ثبت
    عن
  3. 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
    ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. ʿUqayl
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AH
    وَعُقَيْلٍثقة ثبت
    عن
  5. Ḥibbān b. ʿAlī
    weak (ḍaʿīf), and he had jurisprudence and meritd. 171 AH or 172 AH
    حِبَّانُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّضعيف ، وكان له فقه وفضل
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  6. Muḥammad b. al-Ṣalt
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. around 220 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّلْتِثقة
    حدثنا
  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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