Sunan ad-Darimi 2953
✧ The statement of Abu Bakr regarding the grandfather
Show the chain
حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
جَعَلَهُ الَّذِي قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا أَحَدًا خَلِيلًا لَاتَّخَذْتُهُ خَلِيلًا وَلَكِنْ أُخُوَّةُ الْإِسْلَامِ أَفْضَلُ» يَعْنِي «أَبَا بَكْرٍ جَعَلَهُ أَبًا» يَعْنِي الْجَدَّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muslim b. Ibrāhīm
- Wuhayb
- Ayyūb
- ʿIkrimah
- Ibn ʿAbbās
✧ He made him the one whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “If I were to take anyone as a close friend, I would have taken him as a close friend, but the brotherhood of Islam is better”—meaning “Abū Bakr”—he made him a father, meaning the grandfather.
Grades by grader
| Ḥasan Salīm Asad al-Dārānī | Sound Chain | hadithunlocked |
|---|
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AHأَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العبادحدثنا
- memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he changed slightly at the end of his lifed. 165 AH, also said: 169 AHوُهَيْبٌالحافظ ، ثقة ثبت ، لكنه تغير قليلا بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), dependable (maʾmūn), a prolific narrator (mukthir); he went blind at the end of his lifed. Ibn Saʿd and others said: 222 AH, in «Zahrat al-Mutaʿallimīn»: 221 AHمُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة مأمون مكثر ، عمي بآخرهحدثنا
- 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.