al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1485
✧ As for the discussion of Muhammad b. Abi Hafsah
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فَأَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ ثنا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا مُحَمَّدٌ ثنا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْهَجَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
الْأَيْدِي ثَلَاثَةٌ يَدُ اللَّهِ الْعُلْيَا وَيَدُ الْمُعْطِي الَّتِي تَلِيهَا وَيَدُ السَّائِلِ السُّفْلَى إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ فَاسْتَعِفَّ عَنِ السُّؤَالِ مَا اسْتَطَعْتَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
- my father
- Muḥammad
- Shuʿbah
- Ibrāhīm al-Hajarī
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The hands are three: the hand of God is the highest, the hand of the giver is the one that follows it, and the hand of the beggar is the lowest until the Day of Resurrection. So refrain from begging as much as you are able.
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Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsufأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقةعن
- Weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth); he raised statements that were only the Companions' (mawqūfāt) to the Prophet ﷺd. between 141 and 150 AHإِبْرَاهِيمَ الْهَجَرِيِّلين الحديث ، رفع موقوفاتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AHمُحَمَّدٌثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأَبِيثقة حافظ فقيه حجةحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 290 AH, or 297عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 368 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍأخبرنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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