al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3351
✧ The interpretation of Surah al-Hijr.
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحَارِثِيُّ بِالْكُوفَةِ ثنا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ ثنا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ مَوْلَى الْحُرَقَةِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
«السَّبْعُ الْمَثَانِي فَاتِحَةُ الْكِتَابِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥārithī Bi-al-Kūfah
- Abū Usāmah
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar al-Anṣārī
- al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yaʿqūb a freed slave of al-Ḥuraqah
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- Ubay b. Kaʿb
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ On the authority of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he said, "The seven repeatedly-recited verses (Al-Fatiha) are the opening of the Book."
Notes
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ الْإِسْنَادِ عَلَى شَرْطِ مُسْلِمٍ وَلَمْ يُخْرِجَاهُ «وَقَدْ أَمْلَيْتُ طُرُقَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فِي كِتَابِ فَضَائِلِ الْقُرْآنِ»
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- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
هذا حديث صحيح الإسناد على شرط مسلم ولم يخرجاه
machine translationThis ḥadīth has a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) chain of transmission, meeting the criteria of Muslim, and the two of them (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) did not record it.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 3371
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the distinguished Companions (min fuḍalāʾ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 19 AH, or 20 AH, or 22 AH, or 30 AH, or 32 AH, or 33 AHأُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍمن فضلاء الصحابةعن
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AHالْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ ، مَوْلَى الْحُرَقَةِصدوق ربما وهمعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and he sometimes erred (wahima)d. 153 AHعَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصدوق رمي بالقدر ، وربما وهمحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AHأَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.حدثنا
- d. 269 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحَارِثِيُّحدثنا
- d. 346 AHأَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَحدثنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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