Sahih Ibn Hibban 3751
✧ The Excellence of the City
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ
لَوْ رَأَيْتُ الظِّبَاءَ تَرْتَعُ بِالْمَدِينَةَ مَا ذَعَرْتُهَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «مَا بَيْنَ لَابَتَيْهَا حَرَامٌ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥusayn b. Idrīs al-Anṣārī
- Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr
- Mālik
- Ibn Shihāb
- Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib
- Abū Hurayrah
✧ “If I saw gazelles grazing in Madinah, I would not startle them.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Between its two lava tracts is sacred.”
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3172Sahih al-Bukhari 6755Sahih al-Bukhari 7300Sahih Muslim 1370bSahih Muslim 1370d
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
- One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبارعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتينعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 242 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍصدوقأخبرنا
- d. end of 300 AH, or 301 AHالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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