al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4292

Translation

✧ "The companions of the Suffah were seventy men who had no cloaks."

Notes

• هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ قَالَ الْحَاكِمُ «تَأَمَّلْتُ هَذِهِ الْأَخْبَارَ الْوَارِدَةَ فِي أَهْلِ الصُّفَّةِ فَوَجَدْتُهُمْ مِنْ أَكَابِرِ الصَّحَابَةِ وَرَعًا وَتَوَكُّلًا عَلَى اللَّهِ ﷻ وَمُلَازَمَةً لِخِدْمَةِ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولُهُ ﷺ اخْتَارَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَهُمْ مَا اخْتَارَهُ لِنَبِيِّهِ ﷺ مِنَ الْمَسْكَنَةِ وَالْفَقْرِ وَالتَّضَرُّعِ لِعِبَادَةِ اللَّهِ ﷻ وَتَرْكِ الدُّنْيَا لِأَهْلِهَا وَهُمُ الطَّائِفَةُ الْمُنْتَمِيَةُ إِلَيْهُمُ الصُّوفِيَّةُ قَرْنًا بَعْدَ قَرْنٍ فَمَنْ جَرَى عَلَى سُنَّتِهِمْ وَصَبْرِهِمْ عَلَى تَرْكِ الدُّنْيَا وَالْأُنْسِ بِالْفَقْرِ وَتَرْكِ التَّعَرُّضِ لِلسُّؤَالِ فَهُمْ فِي كُلِّ عَصْرٍ بِأَهْلِ الصُّفَّةِ مُقْتَدُونَ وَعَلَى خَالِقِهِمْ مُتَوَكِّلُونَ» على شرط البخاري ومسلم

  machine translationThis is an authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim), though they did not record it. Al-Ḥākim said: "I examined these reports that have come down about the People of the Bench (Ahl al-Ṣuffah), and I found them to be among the greatest of the Companions in piety, in reliance upon Allah ﷻ, and in constant service to Allah and His Messenger ﷺ. Allah the Exalted chose for them what He chose for His Prophet ﷺ: lowliness, poverty, humble devotion to the worship of Allah ﷻ, and leaving the world to its people. They are the group to whom the Sufis have attributed themselves, generation after generation. So whoever follows their way and their patience in abandoning the world, in finding comfort in poverty, and in refraining from exposing himself to begging, then in every age they are followers of the People of the Bench and rely upon their Creator." Meeting the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Report a problem

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• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  هذا حديث صحيح على شرط الشيخين ولم يخرجاه

  machine translationThis is an authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, and they did not record it. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 4315

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 442

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Ḥāzim

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. at the turn of 100 AH, or 101 AH, al-Jāḥiẓ said in the book «al-ʿUrjān»: during Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate
   أَبِي حَازِمٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   his father

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 140 AH
   فُضَيْلِ بْنِ غَزْوَانَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Mighwal

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 157 AH, or 158 AH, or 159 AH
   مَالِكُ بْنُ مِغْوَلٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Sābiq

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 213 AH or 214 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَابِقٍصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Shākir

   trustworthy (thiqah), knowledgeable in hadithd. 279 AH
   جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ شَاكِرٍثقة ، عارف بالحديث
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh b. ʿAttāb al-ʿAbdī

   d. 344 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَتَّابٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Ḥākim

   d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
   الحاكم

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