al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4236

Translation

✧ We were sitting around the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when a desert Arab—an eloquent Bedouin from Yemen—entered on a red she-camel. He made it kneel at the door of the mosque, then came in, greeted us, and sat down. When he had finished, they said, “O Messenger of Allah, the she-camel under the Bedouin is stolen.” He said, “Is there proof?” They said, “Yes, O Messenger of Allah.” He said, “O ʿAlī, take Allah’s due from the Bedouin if the proof is established against him; and if it is not established, then return him to me.” The Bedouin lowered his head for a while. Then the Prophet ﷺ said to him, “Stand, O Bedouin, for Allah’s matter; otherwise present your argument.” Whereupon the she-camel spoke from behind the door: “By Him who sent you with honor, O Messenger of Allah, this man did not steal me, and no one has owned me other than he.” The Prophet ﷺ said to him, “O Bedouin, by Him who made her speak in your defense—what was it that you said?” He replied, “I said: O Allah, You are not a Lord whom we have newly invented, nor is there with You a god who aided You in creating us, nor is there with You any lord such that we would doubt Your lordship. You are our Lord as we say, and above what those who speak can say. I ask You to send blessings upon Muhammad and to clear me by my innocence.” The Prophet ﷺ said to him, “By Him who sent me with honor, O Bedouin, I have indeed seen the angels racing to the mouths of the alleys, writing down your words—so increase your prayers for blessings upon me.”

Notes

• The transmitters of this report, from the last of them, are trustworthy; but as for Yahya b. Abdullah al-Misri, I do not know him as either reliable or discredited. He is a lier.

• رُوَاةُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ آخِرِهِمْ ثِقَاتٌ وَيَحْيَى بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمِصْرِيُّ هَذَا لَسْتُ أَعْرِفُهُ بِعَدَالَةٍ وَلَا جَرْحٍ هو كذب

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  ظاهر النكارة بإسناد صحيح وهو من طريق اليمان بن سعيد المصيصي عن يحيى عن عبد الرزاق عن معمر عن الزهري عن سالم عن أبيه وهذا موضوع على الإسناد المذكور وقد أخرجه الطبراني في الدعاء من طريق سعيد بن موسى الأزدي الحمصي عن الثوري عن عمرو بن دينار عن نافع عن ابن عمر فذكر نحوه بطوله واليمان ضعيف وهو بسعيد أشبه ولعل سنده انقلب على اليمان وسعيد تقدم أنه متهم بالوضع

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 4259
• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  رواة هذا الحديث عن آخرهم ثقات

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 4259

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   He was reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid) and virtuous (fāḍil); he resembled his father in conduct (hady) and demeanor (samt)d. 105 AH or 106 AH or 107 AH or 108 AH, and the correct one is the first
   سَالِمٍكان ثبتا عابدا فاضلا ، كان يشبه بأبيه في الهدي والسمت
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   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 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٍثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   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 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaḥyá b. ʿAbdullāh al-Miṣrī
   يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمِصْرِيُّ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Yamān b. Saʿīd
   الْيَمَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْمِصِّيصِيُّ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Jaʿfar b. Durustawayh
   جَعْفَرُ بْنُ دَرَسْتَوَيْهِ
   حدثنا
9. 9
   Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm al-Aslamī al-Fārisī

   d. 343 AH
   أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ الْفَارِسِيُّ
   حدثني من أصل كتابه
10. 10
    al-Ḥākim

    d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
    الحاكم

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.