al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5242
✧ The biography of Bilal b. Rabah, the caller to prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
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أَخْبَرَنِي إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الشَّعْرَانِيُّ ثنا جَدِّي ثنا الْحَاكِمُ عَنِ الْهِقْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَمَّارٍ عَنْ وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ خَيْرُ السُّودَانِ ثَلَاثَةٌ لُقْمَانُ وَبِلَالٌ وَمِهْجَعٌ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ «صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Shaʿrānī
- my father
- al-Ḥākim
- al-Hiql b. Ziyād
- al-Awzāʿī
- Abū ʿAmmār
- Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The best of the black people are three: Luqman, Bilal, and Mihja', the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Its chain is sahih, but they did not record it.
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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. 5277
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 83 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AHوَاثِلَةُ بْنُ الْأَسْقَعِ اللَّيْثِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), narrates mursal reports (yursil)أَبُو عَمَّارٍثقة , يرسلحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHالْأَوْزَاعِيِّثقة جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 179 AH or: after it, or 181 AHالْهِقْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 232 AH, also said: 235 AHالْحَاكِمُصدوقحدثنا
- d. 282 AHجَدِّيحدثنا
- إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الشَّعْرَانِيُّأخبرني
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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