Sahih Ibn Hibban 5079
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أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
«أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ الشُّهَدَاءِ الَّذِي يَأْتِي بِشَهَادَتِهِ أَوْ يُحَدِّثُهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسْأَلَهَا»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar b. Saʿīd b. Sinān
- Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr
- Mālik
- ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Ḥazm
- his father
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
- Abū ʿAmrah al-Anṣārī
- Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ «Shall I not inform you of the best of witnesses? He is the one who brings his testimony or speaks it before he is asked for it.»
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
وحديث أهل المدينة في هذا الباب حديث صحيح مستعمل لا يدفعه نظر ولا خبر والله المستعان
machine translationThe hadith of the people of Medina on this topic is a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith that is put into practice; neither reasoning nor any report refutes it. And God is the One whose help is sought.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 5084 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
رجح حديث زيد بن خالد لكونه من رواية أهل المدينة
machine translationHe gave preference to the hadith of Zayd b. Khālid because it is from the narration of the people of Medina.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 5084
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 1719Sunan Abi Dawud 3596Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2295Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2296
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 68 AH or 72 AH or 78 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِي عَمْرَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), noble (sharīf)d. 96 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَثقة شريفعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 100 AH, or 110 AH, or 117 AH, or 120 AH, also said: 126 AHأَبِيهِثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 135 AH, from Ibn al-Athīr: 136 AH. In al-Ṣarīfīnī's book: 144 AH. Also said: 130 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍثقةعن
- 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. between 301 and 310 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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