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al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5781

✧ Virtues of Zaid b. Thabit, the Scribe of the Prophet ﷺ

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حَدَّثَنَا الْإِمَامُ أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ قُرَيْشٍ قَالَا ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ ثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ ثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ قَالَ

لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَتُحْسِنُ السُّرْيَانِيَّةَ؟» فَقُلْتُ لَا قَالَ «فَتَعَلَّمْهَا فَإِنَّهُ يَأْتِينَا كُتُبٌ» فَتَعَلَّمْتُهَا فِي سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ «كَانَتْ تَأْتِيَهُ كُتُبٌ لَا يَشْتَهِي أَنْ يَطَّلِعَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا مَنْ يَثِقُ بِهِ» صَحِيحٌ إِنْ كَانَ ثَابِتُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ سَمِعَهُ مِنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ صحيح إن كان ثابت سمعه من زيد

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Chain of narrators
  1. al-Imām Abū al-Walīd and ʾAbū Bakr b. Quraysh
  2. al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
  3. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
  4. Jarīr
  5. al-Aʿmash
  6. Thābit b. ʿUbayd
  7. Zayd b. Thābit

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: “Do you know Syriac?” I said: “No.” He said: “Then learn it, for letters come to us.” So I learned it in seventeen days. Al-A'mash said: “Letters used to come to him that he did not want anyone to read except someone he trusted.” It is authentic if Thabit b. Ubayd heard it from Zayd b. Thabit, but they did not record it. Authentic if Thabit heard it from Zayd.

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  1. Zayd b. Thābit al-Anṣārī
    Famous Companion, scribe of the revelationd. 45 AH, also said: 40 AH, also said: 42 AH, also said: 43 AH, also said: 48 AH, also said: 51 AH, also said: 52 AH, also said: 54 AH, also said: 55 AH, also said: 56 AH
    زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي مشهور ، كاتب الوحي
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  2. Thābit b. ʿUbayd
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AH
    ثَابِتِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍثقة
    عن
  3. al-Aʿmash
    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 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  4. Jarīr
    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 AH
    جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
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  5. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
    قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
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  6. al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
    d. 303 AH
    الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ
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  7. Abū Bakr b. ʿAbdullāh
    d. 362 AH
    وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ قُرَيْشٍ
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  8. al-Ḥākim
    d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
    الحاكم

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