al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2855
✧ As for the narration of Wathila
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فَحَدَّثَنَا الشَّيْخُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ غَالِبٍ ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ ثنا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ بَلَغَ عَائِشَةَ
أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لَأَنْ أُمَتَّعَ بِسَوْطٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أُعْتِقَ وَلَدَ الزِّنَا» وَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «وَلَدُ الزِّنَا شَرُّ الثَّلَاثَةِ» «وَإِنَّ الْمَيِّتَ يُعَذَّبُ بِبُكَاءِ الْحَيِّ» فَقَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ رَحِمَ اللَّهُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ أَسَاءَ سَمْعًا فَأَسَاءَ إِصَابَةً أَمَّا قَوْلُهُ «لَأَنْ أُمَتَّعَ بِسَوْطٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أُعْتِقَ وَلَدَ الزِّنَا» أَنَّهَا لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ {فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ} [البلد 12] قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا عِنْدَنَا مَا نُعْتِقُ إِلَّا أَنَّ أَحَدَنَا لَهُ جَارِيَةٌ سَوْدَاءُ تَخْدُمُهُ وَتَسْعَى عَلَيْهِ فَلَوْ أَمَرْنَاهُنَّ فَزَنَيْنَ فَجِئْنَ بِالْأَوْلَادِ فَأَعْتَقْنَاهُمْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَأَنْ أُمَتَّعْ بِسَوْطٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ آمُرَ بِالزِّنَا ثُمَّ أُعْتِقَ الْوَلَدَ» سلمة لم يحتج به مسلم وقد وثق وضعفه ابن راهويه
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Ghālib
- al-Ḥasan b. ʿUmar b. Shaqīq
- Salamah b. al-Faḍl
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- al-Zuhrī
- ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr
- Balagh ʿĀʾishah
✧ That Abu Hurayrah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'To be provided with a whip in the way of Allah is more beloved to me than to free a child of adultery,' and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'The child of adultery is the worst of the three,' and 'The dead is punished by the weeping of the living.' A'ishah said: May Allah have mercy on Abu Hurayrah; he heard wrongly and thus erred. As for his saying, 'To be provided with a whip in the way of Allah is more beloved to me than to free a child of adultery,' when the verse descended: 'But he has not attempted the steep path. And what can make you know what is the steep path?' (al-Balad 11-12), it was said: O Messenger of Allah, we have nothing to free except that one of us has a black slave-girl who serves him and works for him. If we commanded them to commit adultery and then they brought children, we would free them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'To be provided with a whip in the way of Allah is more beloved to me than to command adultery and then free the child.' Salamah: Muslim did not use him as evidence; he was considered trustworthy but weakened by Ibn Rahawayh.
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- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
هذا حديث صحيح على شرط مسلم ولم يخرجاه
machine translationThis is an authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith meeting the criteria of Muslim, though the two of them did not record it.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 2873
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقافي حكم السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHعُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِثقة فقيه مشهورعن
- 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 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakesd. after 190 AHسَلَمَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِصدوق , كثير الخطأحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 232 AH, or shortly before it, or shortly after itالْحَسَنُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ شَقِيقٍصدوقحدثنا
- d. 283 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ غَالِبٍحدثنا
- d. 342 AHالشَّيْخُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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