Sahih Ibn Hibban 4717

Translation

✧ From the Prophet ﷺ, he said: “The best of companions are four, the best of raiding parties are four hundred, the best of armies are four thousand, and twelve thousand will never be defeated due to small numbers.”

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه أبو سلمة العاملي عن الزهري عن أنس وأبو سلمة هذا عندنا هو الحكم بن عبد الله بن خطاف وهو متروك الحديث وروي عن عباد بن كثير عن عقيل عن الزهري عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله عن ابن عباس والمحفوظ عن الزهري المرسل

  machine translationAbū Salamah al-ʿĀmilī narrates it from al-Zuhrī, from Anas. This Abū Salamah, in our view, is al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbdillāh b. Khaṭṭāf, and he is abandoned in ḥadīth (matrūk al-ḥadīth). It is also narrated from ʿAbbād b. Kathīr, from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdillāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās. But what is preserved (maḥfūẓ) from al-Zuhrī is the mursal version. Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 4722
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  مرسل أشبه لا يحتمل هذا الكلام يكون كلام النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقلت لأبي فسمع حبان من عقيل بن خالد قال نعم لا أعلم من العراقيين من سمع من عقيل إلا حبان بن علي أخو مندل ومخلد بن الحسين

  machine translationIt is a mursal report (mursal) that is more likely correct; these words cannot be the words of the Prophet ﷺ. I said to my father: Did Ḥibbān hear from ʿUqayl b. Khālid? He said: Yes. I do not know of any of the Iraqis who heard from ʿUqayl except Ḥibbān b. ʿAlī, the brother of Mandal, and Mukhallad b. al-Ḥusayn. Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 4722

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 2827

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة فقيه ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   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 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   يحدث عن
4. 4
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يُونُسَ بْنَ يَزِيدَ الْأَيْلِيَّثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   سمعت
5. 5
   Jarīr b. Ḥāzim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but there is weakness in his narrations from Qatādah, and he has errors (awhām) when he narrates from memoryd. 170 AH or 177 AH or 179 AH, also said: 167 AH
   أَبِيثقة ، لكن في حديثه عن قتادة ضعف ، وله أوهام إذا حدث من حفظه
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Wahb b. Jarīr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 206 AH, or 207 AH
   وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Khaythamah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
   أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى
   أخبرنا
9. 9
   Ibn Ḥibbān

   d. 354 AH
   ابن حبان

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