Sahih Ibn Hibban 3736
✧ The Excellence of the City
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْقَطَّانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ سُفْيَانَ بْنَ عُيَيْنَةَ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ مُسْتَقْبِلٌ الْحَجَرَ الْأَسْوَدَ فَأَخْبَرَنِي عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
«يُوشِكُ أَنْ يَضْرِبَ الرَّجُلُ أَكْبَادَ الْإِبِلِ فِي طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ فَلَا يَجِدُ عَالِمًا أَعْلَمَ مِنْ عَالِمِ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd al-Qaṭṭān
- Isḥāq b. Mūsá al-Anṣārī
- Saʾalt Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah / Jālis Mustaqbil al-Ḥajar al-Aswad Faʾakhbaranī
- Ibn Jurayj
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ “Soon a man will strike the livers of camels in pursuit of knowledge, and he will not find a scholar more knowledgeable than the scholar of the people of Madinah.”
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو مُوسَى بَلَغَنِي عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ انْهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ نَرَى أَنَّهُ مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِسُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ فَقَالَ إِنَّمَا الْعَالِمُ مَنْ يخْشَى اللَّهَ وَلَا نَعْلَمُ أَحَدًا كَانَ أَخْشَى لِلَّهِ مِنَ الْعُمَرِيِّ يُرِيدُ بِهِ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ
machine translationAbū Mūsā said: It has reached me from Ibn Jurayj that he used to say, "We think that he is Mālik b. Anas." I mentioned that to Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah, and he said: "The scholar is only the one who fears God, and we do not know anyone who feared God more than al-ʿUmarī," by whom he meant ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
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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, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AHابْنِ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسلعن
- 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 AHسُفْيَانَ بْنَ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 244 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْأَنْصَارِيُّثقة متقنحدثنا
- d. around 310 AHالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْقَطَّانُأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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