al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 299
✧ as for the narration of Ka'b b. Malik
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الْحَافِظُ ثنا السَّرِيُّ بْنُ خُزَيْمَةَ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يُونُسَ ثنا زَائِدَةُ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«مَا مِنْ رَجُلٍ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَطْلُبُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا إِلَّا سَهَّلَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِهِ طَرِيقَ الْجَنَّةِ وَمَنْ أَبْطَأَ بِهِ عَمَلُهُ لَمْ يُسْرِعْ بِهِ نَسَبُهُ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Ḥāfiẓ
- al-Sarī b. Khuzaymah
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yūnus
- Zāʾidah
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "No man takes a path seeking knowledge therein except that Allah makes easy for him thereby a path to Paradise. And whoever is slowed by his deeds will not be hastened by his lineage."
Notes
تَابَعَهُ أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَعلى شرطهما
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- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AHزَائِدَةُثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 227 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يُونُسَثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 275 AHالسَّرِيُّ بْنُ خُزَيْمَةَحدثنا
- d. 344 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الْحَافِظُحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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