al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3547
✧ Exegesis of Surah As-Sajdah
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا الْعَنْبَرِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ السَّلَامِ بْنِ بَشَّارٍ ثنا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أَنْبَأَ عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ عَنْ عَمِّهِ شُعَيْبِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ حَدَّثَنِي سِمَاكُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ قَالَ
كُنَّا جُلُوسًا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِالْبَطْحَاءِ فَمَرَّتْ سَحَابَةٌ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَتَدْرُونَ مَا هَذَا؟» فَقُلْنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ فَقَالَ «السَّحَابُ» فَقُلْنَا السَّحَابُ فَقَالَ «وَالْمُزْنُ» فَقُلْنَا وَالْمُزْنُ فَقَالَ «وَالْعَنَانُ» فَسَكَتَ ثُمَّ قَالَ «أَتَدْرُونَ كَمْ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ؟» فَقُلْنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ فَقَالَ «بَيْنَهُمَا مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ وَمِنْ كُلِّ سَمَاءٍ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ الَّتِي تَلِيهَا مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ وَكِثَفُ كُلِّ سَمَاءٍ خَمْسُ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ وَفَوْقَ السَّمَاءِ السَّابِعَةِ بَحْرٌ بَيْنَ أَعْلَاهُ وَأَسْفَلِهِ كَمَا بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاللَّهُ فَوْقَ ذَلِكَ وَلَيْسَ يَخْفَى عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَعْمَالِ بَنِي آدَمَ شَيْءٌ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Zakariyyā al-ʿAnbarī
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Salām b. Bashhār
- Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm Anbaʾ ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Yaḥyá b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- ʿAmmih Shuʿayb b. Khālid
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmīrah
- al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
✧ We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at al-Batha' when a cloud passed by. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Do you know what this is?" We said, "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "The cloud." We said, "The cloud." He said: "And the rain-cloud." We said, "And the rain-cloud." He said: "And the cloud-layer." Then he fell silent. Then he said: "Do you know how much is between the heaven and the earth?" We said, "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "Between them is a distance of five hundred years' journey, and from each heaven to the next is a distance of five hundred years' journey, and the thickness of each heaven is five hundred years' journey. Above the seventh heaven is a sea between its top and bottom like what is between the heaven and the earth, and Allah is above that, and nothing of the deeds of the children of Adam is hidden from Him."
Notes
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخْرِجَاهُ أن يحيى بن العلاء واه
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
لا أعلم في هذا الباب حديثا مرفوعا إلا حديث عبد الله بن عميرة وهو حديث مشهور بهذا الإسناد رواه عن سماك جماعة منهم أبو خالد الدالاني وعمر وابن أبي عمرو بن أبي قيس وشعيب بن أبي خالد وابن أبي المقدام وإبراهيم بن طهمان والوليد بن أبي ثور
machine translationI do not know of any raised (marfūʿ) ḥadīth on this topic except the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmayrah, and it is a well-known (mashhūr) ḥadīth with this chain. A group narrated it from Simāk, among them Abū Khālid al-Dālānī, ʿUmar and Ibn Abī ʿAmr b. Abī Qays, Shuʿayb b. Abī Khālid, Ibn Abī al-Miqdām, Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān and al-Walīd b. Abī Thawr.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 3568 - ابن عدي
لا يتابع عليه ورواياته غير محفوظة ويحيى بن العلاء بين الضعف على روايته وحديثه
machine translationHe is not corroborated, and his narrations are not preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ). Yaḥyā b. al-ʿAlāʾ is clearly weak (ḍaʿīf) in his narration and his ḥadīth.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 3568 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
فيه عن سماك اختلاف قال البخاري لا يعلم له سماع من الأحنف
machine translationThere is disagreement about it from Simāk. al-Bukhārī said: It is not known that he heard from al-Aḥnaf.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 3568 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
هذا حديث صحيح الإسناد ولم يخرجاه
machine translationThis hadith has an authentic chain of transmission (ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād), though they did not record it.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 3568
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- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صحيح الإسناد
machine translationThe chain is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād).
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 3568 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 3568
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 32 AH, or: 33 AH, or: 34 AHالعَبَّاس بن عَبْد المُطَّلِب عَمّ رَسُول اللهصحابيعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَمقبولعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكُ بْنُ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنحدثني
- there is no harm in him (laysa bihi baʾs)شُعَيْبِ بْنِ خَالِدٍليس به بأسعن
- Accused of fabrication.d. close to 160 AH.يَحْيَى بْنُ الْعَلَاءِرمي بالوضع .حدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعأنبأ
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ مجتهدحدثنا
- d. 286 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ السَّلَامِ بْنِ بَشَّارٍحدثنا
- d. 344 AHأَبُو زَكَرِيَّا الْعَنْبَرِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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