al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5237
✧ The biography of Bilal b. Rabah, the caller to prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الزَّاهِدُ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى الْقَاضِي ثنا عَارِمُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ ثنا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ
أَنَّ أَخًا لِبِلَالٍ كَانَ يَنْتَمِي إِلَى الْعَرَبِ وَيَزْعُمُ أَنَّهُ مِنْهُمْ فَخَطَبَ امْرَأَةً مِنَ الْعَرَبِ فَقَالُوا إِنْ حَضَرَ بِلَالٌ زَوَّجْنَاكَ قَالَ فَحَضَرَ بِلَالٌ فَقَالَ «أَنَا بِلَالُ بْنُ رَبَاحٍ وَهَذَا أَخِي وَهُوَ امْرُؤٌ سَيِّئُ الْخُلُقِ وَالدِّينِ فَإِنْ شِئْتُمْ أَنْ تُزَوِّجُوهُ فَزَوِّجُوهُ وَإِنْ شِئْتُمْ أَنْ تَدَعُوا فَدَعُوا» فَقَالُوا مَنْ تَكُنْ أَخَاهُ نُزَوِّجُهُ فَزَوَّجُوهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Zāhid al-Aṣbahānī
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá al-Qāḍī
- ʿĀrim b. al-Faḍl
- ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād
- ʿAmr b. Maymūn
✧ A brother of Bilal claimed Arab descent and asserted that he was one of them. He proposed to an Arab woman, and they said, 'If Bilal attends, we will marry her to you.' So Bilal attended and said, 'I am Bilal b. Rabah, and this is my brother. He is a man of bad character and religion. If you wish to marry him, then do so; and if you wish to leave the matter, then leave it.' They said, 'Whoever is your brother, we will marry to him.' So they married her to him.
Notes
«صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ وَأَخُو بِلَالٍ هَذَا لَهُ رِوَايَةٌ» صحيح
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صحيح الإسناد ولم يخرجاه
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 5272
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 20 AHبِلَالُ بْنُ رَبَاحٍ سَابِقُ الْحَبَشَةِصحابيفي حكم العنعنة
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 116 AHأَبِيثقةحدثني
- حدثناtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 147 AH
- حدثناtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 176 AH
- حدثناtrustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 224 AH
- حدثنا
- أخبرنا
- d. 403 AH
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