Sahih Ibn Hibban 272
✧ The translation of the heading into English is: "Truthfulness and the enjoining of good and forbidding evil
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي مَعْشَرٍ بِحَرَّانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ وَمَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
«لَا يَزَالُ الرَّجُلُ يَصْدُقُ وَيَتَحَرَّى الصِّدْقَ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ صِدِّيقًا وَلَا يَزَالُ يَكْذِبُ وَيَتَحَرَّى الْكَذِبَ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ كَذَّابًا»
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Abū Maʿshar Biḥarrān
- Bishr b. Khālid
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
- Shuʿbah
- Sulaymān and Manṣūr
- Abū Wāʾil
- ʿAbdullāh
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ “A man will continue to be truthful and to seek out truthfulness until he is written with Allah as a truthful one (ṣiddīq), and a man will continue to lie and to seek out lying until he is written with Allah as a liar.”
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHأَبِي وَائِلٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AHوَمَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقنعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), narrates unusual reports (yughrib)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: died in the year 255 AH; Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Kindī said: died in the year 253 AHبِشْرُ بْنُ خَالِدٍثقة يغربحدثنا
- d. 318 AHالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي مَعْشَرٍأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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