al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 5930
✧ virtues of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الصَّفَّارُ ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْقَاضِي ثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ ثَنَا ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَ ثَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ
شَهِدَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَدْرًا ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتَخَلَّفْ عَنْ غَزَاةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَّا هُوَ فِيهَا إِلَّا عَامًا وَاحِدًا فَإِنَّهُ اسْتُعْمِلَ عَلَى الْجَيْشِ رَجُلٌ شَابٌّ فَقَعَدَ ذَلِكَ الْعَامَ فَجَعَلَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ يَتَلَهَّفُ وَيَقُولُ مَا عَلَيَّ مَنِ اسْتُعْمِلَ فَمَرِضَ وَعَلَى الْجَيْشِ يَزِيدُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ يَعُودُهُ فَقَالَ مَا حَاجَتُكَ؟ فَقَالَ «حَاجَتِي إِذَا أَنَا مُتُّ فَارْكَبْ ثُمَّ اسْعَ فِي أَرْضِ الْعَدُوِّ مَا وَجَدْتَ مَسَاغًا فَإِذَا لَمْ تَجِدْ مَسَاغًا فَادْفِنِّي ثُمَّ ارْجِعْ» قَالَ وَكَانَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ يَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ ﷻ {انْفِرُوا خِفَافًا وَثِقَالًا} [التوبة 41] «فَلَا أَجِدُنِي إِلَّا خَفِيفًا أَوْ ثَقِيلًا» سكت عنه الذهبي في التلخيص
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Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣaffār
- Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq al-Qāḍī
- Musaddad
- Ibn ʿUlayyah
- Ayyūb
- Muḥammad b. Sīrīn
✧ Abu Ayyub fought at Badr with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Then he did not miss any campaign of the Muslims except that he was in it, except one year, when a young man was appointed over the army and he stayed behind that year. After that he began to regret it and say, 'What concern is it to me who is appointed?' He fell ill while Yazid b. Mu'awiya was in command of the army. Yazid entered to visit him and said, 'What is your need?' He said, 'My need is that when I die, you mount and then advance into enemy territory as far as you find a passage. If you find no passage, then bury me and return.' He said: Abu Ayyub used to say: Allah, exalted is He, said: 'Go forth, light and heavy' [Qur'an 9:41], so I find myself only light or heavy. Al-Dhahabi remained silent about it in the Talkhis.
Grades by grader
| al-Dhahabi | Remains Silent | hadithunlocked |
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 50 AHأَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيفي حكم العنعنة
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 110 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 130 AHأَيُّوبُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- حدثناtrustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH
- حدثناtrustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
- حدثنا
- أخبرنا
- d. 403 AH
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.