al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5755
✧ merits of Abdullah b. Salam al-Isra'ili
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْإِمَامُ أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ حَسَّانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ قُرَيْشٍ قَالَا ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ ثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَا ثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُسْهِرٍ عَنْ خَرَشَةَ بْنِ الْحُرِّ قَالَ
كُنْتُ جَالِسًا فِي حَلْقَةٍ فِي مَسْجِدِ الْمَدِينَةِ فِيهَا شَيْخٌ حَسَنُ الْهَيْئَةِ وَهُوَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلَّامٍ قَالَ فَجَعَلَ يُحَدِّثُهُمْ حَدِيثًا حَسَنًا فَلَمَّا قَامَ قَالَ الْقَوْمُ مَنْ سَرَّهُ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ فَلْيَنْظُرْ إِلَى هَذَا قُلْتُ وَاللَّهِ لَأَتَّبِعَنَّهُ فَلَأَعْلَمَنَّ مَكَانَ بَيْتِهِ فَتَبِعْتُهُ فَانْطَلَقَ حَتَّى كَادَ أَنْ يَخْرُجَ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ ثُمَّ دَخَلَ مَنْزِلَهُ فَاسْتَأْذَنْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَأَذِنَ لِي فَقَالَ مَا حَاجَتُكَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي؟ قُلْتُ لَهُ سَمِعْتُ الْقَوْمَ يَقُولُونَ كَذَا وَكَذَا فَأَعْجَبَنِي أَنْ أَكُونَ مَعَكَ قَالَ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِأَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَسَأُحَدِّثُكَ مِمَّا قَالُوا قَالُوا ذَلِكَ إِنِّي بَيْنَمَا أَنَا نَائِمٌ إِذْ أَتَانِي رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ لِي قُمْ فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِي فَانْطَلَقْتُ مَعَهُ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِجَوَادٍ عَنْ شِمَالِي فَأَخَذْتُ لِآخُذَ فِيهَا فَقَالَ لِي لَا تَأْخُذْ فِيهَا فَإِنَّهَا طَرِيقُ أَهْلِ الشِّمَالِ فَإِذَا جَوَادٌ مُنْهَجٌ عَنْ يَمِينِي فَقَالَ لِي خُذْ هَا هُنَا فَإِذَا أَنَا بِجَبَلٍ فَقَالَ لِي اصْعَدْ قَالَ فَجَعَلْتُ إِذَا أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَصْعَدَ خَرَرْتُ عَلَى إِسْتِي قَالَ حَتَّى فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ مِرَارًا قَالَ ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ حَتَّى أَتَى بِي عَمُودًا رَأْسُهُ فِي السَّمَاءِ وَأَسْفَلُهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ فِي أَعْلَاهُ حَلْقَةٌ فَقَالَ لِي اصْعَدْ فَوْقَ هَذَا قَالَ قُلْتُ كَيْفَ أَصْعَدُ وَرَأْسُهُ فِي السَّمَاءِ قَالَ فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِي فَزَجَلَ بِي فَإِذَا أَنَا مُتَعَلِّقٌ بِالْحَلْقَةِ حَتَّى أَصْبَحْتُ فَأَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَصَصْتُهَا عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ «أَمَا الطَّرِيقُ الَّتِي رَأَيْتَ عَنْ يَسَارِكَ فَهِيَ طَرِيقُ أَهْلِ الشِّمَالِ وَأَمَّا الطَّرِيقُ الَّتِي عَنْ يَمِينِكَ فَهِيَ طَرِيقُ أَهْلِ الْيَمَنِ وَأَمَّا الْعُرْوَةُ فَهِيَ عُرْوَةُ الْإِسْلَامِ فَلَنْ تَزَالَ مُتَمَسِّكًا بِهَا حَتَّى تَمُوتَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Imām Abū al-Walīd Ḥassān b. Muḥammad and ʾAbū Bakr b. Quraysh
- al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah Waqutaybah b. Saʿīd
- Jarīr
- al-Aʿmash
- Sulaymān b. Mushir
- Kharashah b. al-Ḥur
✧ I was sitting in a circle in the Mosque of Madinah. In it was an old man of fine appearance, who was 'Abd Allah b. Salam. He began narrating to them an excellent hadith. When he stood up, the people said, "Whoever would like to look at a man from the people of Paradise, let him look at this one." I said, "By Allah, I will follow him and learn the location of his house." I followed him, and he went until he was about to leave Madinah, then he entered his house. I asked permission to enter, and he permitted me. He said, "What do you need, O son of my brother?" I said to him, "I heard the people saying such and such, and I was pleased to be with you." He said, "Allah knows best who are the people of Paradise. I will tell you about what they said. They said that while I was sleeping, a man came to me and said, 'Get up.' He took me by the hand, and I went with him. Then I saw a wide road on my left, and I started to take it. He said, 'Do not take it, for it is the path of the people of the left.' Then there was a clear, straight road on my right. He said, 'Take this one.' Then I came to a mountain, and he said, 'Climb.' Whenever I wanted to climb, I fell on my backside." He said, "That happened to me several times. Then he went on until he brought me to a pillar whose top was in the sky and whose bottom was in the earth, with a ring at its top. He said, 'Climb on top of this.' I said, 'How can I climb when its top is in the sky?' He took me by the hand and threw me, and I found myself clinging to the ring until morning. I came to the Prophet ﷺ and related it to him. He said, 'As for the road you saw on your left, it is the path of the people of the left. As for the road on your right, it is the path of the people of the right. As for the ring, it is the firm handle of Islam. You will continue to hold fast to it until you die.'"
Notes
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ على شرط البخاري ومسلم
machine translationThis is an authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs, though they did not record it, meeting the criteria of al-Bukhārī and 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. 5805
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 43 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْإِسْرَائِيلِيُّصحابيعن
- Abū Dāwūd said: He has companionship (ṣuḥbah); and al-ʿIjlī said: trustworthy (thiqah), among the senior Successors (tābiʿīn)d. 74 AHخَرَشَةَ بْنِ الْحُرِّقال أبو داود : له صحبة ، وقال العجلي : ثقة من كبار التابعينعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُسْهِرٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHوَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 303 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَحدثنا
- d. 362 AHوَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ قُرَيْشٍأخبرنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.