Sahih Ibn Hibban 484
✧ The beauty of character
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ ﷺ قَالَ
«أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخِيَارِكُمْ؟ » قَالُوا بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ «أَطْوَلُكُمْ أَعْمَارًا وَأَحْسَنُكُمْ أَخْلَاقًا»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Azdī
- Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
- Jaʿfar b. ʿAwn
- Ibn Isḥāq
- Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Taymī
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh Ṣallá Allāh ﷺ
✧ «Shall I not inform you of the best among you?» They said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah." He said: "Those with the longest lives and the best character among you."
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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 (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 121 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّثقة له أفرادعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHابْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 206 AH, or 207 AHجَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ مجتهدحدثنا
- d. 305 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَزْدِيُّأخبرنا
- 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.