al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5422
✧ The Islamization of Abbas and the Variance of Narrations During His Time
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حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ صَالِحِ بْنِ هَانِئٍ ثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْبَجَلِيُّ ثَنَا عَفَّانُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْغَافِرِ قَالَ
دَخَلَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ عَلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ وَقَدْ تَحَلَّقَتْ عِنْدَهُ بُطُونُ قُرَيْشٍ فَسَأَلَهُ مُعَاوِيَةُ عَنْ آبَائِهِمْ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ فَمَا تَقُولُ فِي أَبِيكَ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ؟ فَقَالَ «رَحِمَ اللَّهُ أَبَا الْفَضْلِ كَانَ وَاللَّهِ عَمَّ نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ وَقُرَّةَ عَيْنِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ سَيِّدُ الْأَعْمَامِ وَالْأَخْدَانِ جَدُّ الْأَجْدَادِ وآبَاؤُهُ الْأَجْوَادُ وَأَجْدَادُهُ الْأَنْجَادُ لَهُ عَلْمٌ بِالْأُمُورِ قَدْ زَانَهُ حَلِمٌ وَقَدْ عَلَاهُ فَهْمٌ كَانَ يَكْسِبُ حِبَالَهُ كُلُّ مُهَنَّدٍ وَيَكْسِبُ لِرَأْيِهِ كُلُّ مُخَالِفٍ رِعْدِيدٍ تَلَاشَتِ الْأَخْدَانُ عِنْدَ ذِكْرِ فَضِيلَتِهِ وَتَبَاعَدَتِ الْأَنْسَابُ عِنْدَ ذِكْرِ عَشِيرَتِهِ صَاحِبُ الْبَيْتِ وَالسِّقَايَةِ وَالنَّسَبِ وَالْقَرَابَةِ وَلِمَ لَا يَكُونُ كَذَلِكَ؟ وَكَيْفَ لَا يَكُونُ كَذَلِكَ؟ وَمُدَبِّرُ سِيَاسَتِهِ أَكْرَمُ مَنْ دَبَّرَ وَأَفْهَمُ مَنْ نَشَأَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَرَكِبَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ b. Hāniʾ
- al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faḍl al-Bajalī
- ʿAffān b. Muslim
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- Thābit
- ʿUqbah b. ʿAbd al-Ghāfir
✧ Abd Allah b. al-Abbas entered upon Mu'awiyah b. Abi Sufyan while the clans of Quraysh had gathered in circles around him. Mu'awiyah asked him about their forefathers until he said: 'What do you say about your father al-Abbas b. Abd al-Muttalib?' He said: 'May Allah have mercy on Abu al-Fadl. By Allah, he was the uncle of the Prophet of Allah and the delight of the eye of the Messenger of Allah, the master of uncles and close friends, the grandfather of grandfathers; his fathers were the most generous and his ancestors the most courageous. He had knowledge of affairs, adorned by forbearance and elevated by understanding. Every sharp sword earned his spoils, and every opposing coward earned his opinion. Close friends vanished at the mention of his virtue, and lineages receded at the mention of his clan. He was the keeper of the House, the water-giving, the lineage, and the kinship. And why should he not be so? How could he not be so? The planner of his policy was the most noble of those who planned and the most understanding of those who grew up from Quraysh and rode.'
Notes
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ على شرط مسلم
machine translationThis is an authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim), though they did not record it; it meets the criteria of Muslim.
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What scholars said about it
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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.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 5463
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةفي حكم العنعنة
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or: 83 AHعُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْغَافِرِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AHعَفَّانُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 282 AH or 283 AHالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْبَجَلِيُّحدثنا
- d. 340 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ صَالِحِ بْنِ هَانِئٍحدثني
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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