Sahih Ibn Hibban 6140
Beginning of Creation
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أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِشْكَابٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ مَعْنٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ جَامِعِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ مُحْرِزٍ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ
كُنْتُ جَالِسًا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَنَاقَتِي مَعْقُولَةٌ بِالْبَابِ إِذْ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ نَفَرٌ مِنْ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ جِئْنَاكَ لِنَتَفَقَّهَ فِي الدِّينِ وَنَسْأَلَكَ عَنْ أَوَّلِ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ مَا كَانَ؟ قَالَ ﷺ «كَانَ اللَّهُ وَلَيْسَ شَيْءٌ غَيْرَهُ وَكَانَ عَرْشُهُ عَلَى الْمَاءِ ثُمَّ كَتَبَ فِي الذِّكْرِ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ ثُمَّ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī
- Muḥammad b. Ishkāb
- Muḥammad b. Abū ʿUbaydah b. Maʿn
- my father
- al-Aʿmash
- Jāmiʿ b. Shaddād
- Ṣafwān b. Muḥriz
- ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn
✧ I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and my she-camel was hobbled at the door when a group from Banū Tamīm entered upon him and said, “O Messenger of Allah, we have come to you to gain understanding in the religion and to ask you about the beginning of this matter: what was it?” He ﷺ said, “Allah existed and there was nothing other than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, then He wrote in the Remembrance everything, then He created the heavens and the earth.”
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
ومن الأحاديث الصحيحة حديث عمران بن حصين كان الله ولم يكن شيء غيره
machine translationAmong the authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadiths is the hadith of ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn: "Allah was, and there was nothing other than Him."
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 6146 - Taḥāwī
فاختلف الأعمش في الذي رجع إليه هذا الحديث من أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فذكر الأعمش أنه عمران بن الحصين وذكر المسعودي أنه بريدة بن الحصيب وكان الصحيح عندنا ما قاله الأعمش فيه ودل على ذلك أن الثوري قد رواه عن جامع بن شداد فوافق الأعمش فيه وخالف المسعودي وإن كان قد قصر عن بعض متنه مما في روايتهما
machine translationAl-Aʿmash differed regarding which of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ this hadith goes back to. Al-Aʿmash mentioned that it was ʿImrān b. al-Ḥuṣayn, while al-Masʿūdī mentioned that it was Buraydah b. al-Ḥuṣayb. The correct view in our opinion is what al-Aʿmash said about it. What indicates this is that al-Thawrī narrated it from Jāmiʿ b. Shaddād, agreeing with al-Aʿmash and opposing al-Masʿūdī, even though he fell short of some of its text that is in their two narrations.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 6146
Other narrations of this report
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- embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AHعِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 74 AHصَفْوَانَ بْنِ مُحْرِزٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Nuʿaym said: 118 AH. Ibn Saʿd said: 128 AH, he said elsewhere: 127 AHجَامِعِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 151 AH and 160 AHأَبِيثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 205 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ مَعْنٍثقةحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 261 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِشْكَابَصدوقحدثنا
- d. 311 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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