Sunan ad-Darimi 3395

Translation

✧ Allah does not shy away from striking a similitude even of a gnat or that which is above it. As for those who believe, they know it is the truth from their Lord; and as for those who disbelieve, they say: What does Allah intend by such a similitude? He misleads many by it and guides many by it, and He misleads none by it except the defiantly disobedient. [al-Baqarah 26] He said: i.e., they know that it is the Speech of the Most Merciful.

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Narrators

1. 1
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَة بْن دِعَامَةثقة ثبت
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
   سَعِيدٍثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd b. Zurayʿ

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Raqāshī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 217 AH, or 219 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الرَّقَاشِيُّثقة
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   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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