Sahih Ibn Hibban 3727
✧ The Excellence of the City
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أَخْبَرَنَا صَالِحُ بْنُ الْأَصْبَغِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ التَّنُوخِيُّ بِمَنْبِجَ حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ الطَّائِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«إِنَّ الْإِيمَانَ لَيَأْرِزُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ كَمَا تَأْرِزُ الْحَيَّةُ إِلَى جُحْرِهَا»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ṣāliḥ b. al-Aṣbagh b. ʿĀmir al-Tanūkhī Bimanbij
- Aḥmad b. Ḥarb al-Ṭāʾī
- Yaḥyá b. Sulaym
- ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar
- Nāfiʿ
- Ibn ʿUmar
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Indeed, faith will retreat to al-Madinah just as a snake retreats to its hole.
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- أبو زرعة الرازي
هذا خطأ إنما هو عبيد الله عن خبيب عن حفص بن عاصم عن أبي هريرة
machine translationThis is a mistake. Rather, it is ʿUbayd Allāh, from Khubayb, from Ḥafṣ b. ʿĀṣim, from Abū Hurayrah.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 3732 - Dāraquṭnī
وهو أصح
machine translationAnd it is the more authentic (aṣaḥḥ).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 3732
Other narrations of this report
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- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a well-known jurist (faqīh)d. 116 AH, or 117 AH, or 118 AH, or 119 AH, or 120 AHنَافِعٍثقة ثبت فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 144 AH or 145 AH or 146 AH or 147 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH, or 195 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمٍصدوق ، سيئ الحفظحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 263 AH, or 267 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ الطَّائِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- صَالِحُ بْنُ الْأَصْبَغِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ التُّنُوخِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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