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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
  1. Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Zāhid al-Aṣbahānī
  2. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá al-Qāḍī
  3. ʿĀrim b. al-Faḍl
  4. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād
  5. 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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  • Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

    صحيح الإسناد ولم يخرجاه

    machine translationThe chain is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ), though the two of them (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) did not record it.

    in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 5272

Narrators

  1. Bilāl b. Rabāḥ sābiq al-Ḥabashah
    One of the earliest and foremost Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn); he witnessed Badr and the other battlesd. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī and others said: the year 20 AH, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: the year 17 AH or 18 AH
    بِلَالُ بْنُ رَبَاحٍ سَابِقُ الْحَبَشَةِمن السابقين الأولين ، شهد بدرا والمشاهد
    في حكم العنعنة
  2. Maymūn b. Mihrān al-Raqqī
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or the end of Hishām's reign
    أَبِيثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسل
    حدثني
  3. ʿAmr b. Maymūn
    trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 147 AH, also said 145 AH, also said 148
    عَمْرُو بْنُ مَيْمُونٍثقة فاضل
    حدثنا
  4. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād
    Trustworthy (thiqah); there is some criticism concerning his narrations from al-Aʿmash aloned. 176 AH, or 177 AH, or 179 AH
    عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍثقة ، في حديثه عن الأعمش وحده مقال
    حدثنا
  5. Abū al-Nuʿmān
    trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt); his memory changed at the end of his life (taghayyara fī ākhir ʿumrihi)d. 224, also said: 223
    عَارِمُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِثقة ثبت ، تغير في آخر عمره
    حدثنا
  6. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Qāḍī
    d. 280 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى الْقَاضِي
    حدثنا
  7. Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Ṣaffār
    d. 339 AH
    أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الزَّاهِدُ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ
    أخبرنا
  8. al-Ḥākim
    d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
    الحاكم

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