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
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 5277
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 83 AHوَاثِلَةُ بْنُ الْأَسْقَعِ اللَّيْثِيُّصحابيعن
- حدثنيtrustworthy (thiqah)
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 157 AHالْأَوْزَاعِيِّثقةعن
- عنtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 179 AH
- حدثناtruthful (ṣadūq)d. 232 AH
- حدثناd. 282 AH
- أخبرني
- d. 403 AH
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