Sahih Ibn Hibban 36
✧ Statement on how revelation began
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو خَلِيفَةَ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ يَبْلُغُ بِهِ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
«إِذَا قَضَى اللَّهُ الْأَمْرَ فِي السَّمَاءِ ضَرَبَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ بِأَجْنِحَتِهَا خُضْعَانًا لِقَوْلِهِ كَأَنَّهُ سِلْسِلَةٌ عَلَى صَفْوَانٍ حَتَّى إِذَا فُزِّعَ عَنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ قَالُوا مَاذَا قَالَ رَبُّكُمْ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ قَالَ الْحَقَّ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ فَيَسْتَمِعُهَا مُسْتَرِقُ السَّمْعِ فَرُبَّمَا أَدْرَكَهُ الشِّهَابُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْمِيَ بِهَا إِلَى الَّذِي هُوَ أَسْفَلُ مِنْهُ وَرُبَّمَا لَمْ يُدْرِكْهُ الشِّهَابُ حَتَّى يَرْمِيَ بِهَا إِلَى الَّذِي هُوَ أَسْفَلُ مِنْهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Khalīfah
- Ibrāhīm b. Bashhār
- Sufyān
- ʿAmr b. Dīnār
- ʿIkrimah
- Abū Hurayrah Yablugh Bih al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ When Allah decrees a matter in the heaven, the angels beat their wings in submission to His word, which is like a chain on a rock. Then when fear is removed from their hearts, they say, "What did your Lord say?" They say, "The truth, and He is the Most High, the Most Great." Then the eavesdroppers hear it, and sometimes a meteor catches him before he can cast it down to the one below him, and sometimes the meteor does not catch him until he casts it down to the one below him.
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Qurṭubī | Soundin صحيح ابن حبان, p. 36 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
ورواه أحمد بن عبدة وأبو معمر عن ابن عيينة وقالا عنه عن عمرو عن عكرمة قال أنبا أبو هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم الحديث وهو الصحيح
machine translationIt was also narrated by Aḥmad b. ʿAbdah and Abū Maʿmar from Ibn ʿUyaynah, and the two of them said from him: from ʿAmr, from ʿIkrimah, who said: Abū Hurayrah informed us from the Prophet ﷺ, and then the hadith. And this is the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) version.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 36
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 4701Sahih al-Bukhari 4800Sahih al-Bukhari 7481Sunan Abi Dawud 4738Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3223
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ) who had some errors (awhām)d. 230 AH, or shortly before or after it, also said: 224 AH, also said: 227 AH, also said: 228 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍحافظ له أوهامحدثنا
- d. 305 AHأَبُو خَلِيفَةَأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.