al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 212

Translation

✧ He gathered a hadith and then met Abu Dharr while he was near the middle pillar, and the people were around him. He said, “I sat next to him until my knee touched his knees, and I forgot that hadith and everything I wanted to ask him slipped away from me. I raised my head to the sky and began to remember. I said, ‘O Abu Dharr, guide me to a deed which, if a servant does it, he will enter Paradise.’ He said, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “You believe in Allah.”’ I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, is there any action along with faith?’ He said, ‘He gives from what Allah has provided him.’ I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what if he is destitute and has nothing?’ He said, ‘He speaks good with his tongue.’ I said, ‘What if he is unable to speak and his tongue cannot convey?’ He said, ‘Then let him help one who is overcome.’ I said, ‘What if he is weak and has no strength?’ He said, ‘Then let him make something for an unskilled person.’ I said, ‘What if he is unskilled?’ He turned to me and said, ‘Do you want to leave any good in your companion?’ He said, ‘He refrains from harming people.’ I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, all of this is indeed easy.’ He said, ‘By the One in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, there is no one of these traits which a servant practices seeking thereby the face of Allah except that it will take him by the hand on the Day of Resurrection and will not leave him until it makes him enter Paradise.’”

Notes

• هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ مُسْلِمٍ فَقَدِ احْتَجَّ فِي كِتَابِهِ بِأَبِي كَثِيرٍ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ وَاسْمُهُ يَزِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ وَهُوَ تَابِعِيٌّ مَعْرُوفٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ أَبُو كَثِيرٍ الْأَعْمَى وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ لَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ على شرط مسلم

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• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  صحيح على شرط مسلم

  machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ), meeting the criteria of Muslim. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 212

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
   أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Udhaynah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 95 AH, or before it
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Kathīr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AH
   أَبُو كَثِيرٍ الزُّبَيْدِيُّثقة .
   حدثني
4. 4
   Abū ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AH
   الْأَوْزَاعِيَّثقة جليل
   سمعت
5. 5
   Abī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), al-Nasāʾī said: he did not err and did not practise concealment (tadlīs)d. 203 AH, or 207 AH, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: died in the year 183 AH
   أَبِيثقة ثبت ، قال النسائي : كان لا يخطئ ولا يدلس
   أخبرني
6. 6
   al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd b. Mazyad

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 265 AH, or: 269 AH, or: 270 AH, or: 271 AH
   الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ مَزْيَدٍ الْبَيْرُوتِيُّصدوق
   أنبأ
7. 7
   Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb

   d. 346 AH
   أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Ḥākim

   d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
   الحاكم

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