Sahih Ibn Hibban 6142
Beginning of Creation
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أَخْبَرَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْعِجْلِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى الْعَبْسِيُّ عَنْ شَيْبَانَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ جَامِعِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ مُحْرِزٍ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ
إِنِّي لَجَالِسٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذْ جَاءَهُ قَوْمٌ مِنْ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ فَقَالَ «اقْبَلُوا الْبُشْرَى يَا بَنِي تَمِيمٍ» قَالُوا قَدْ بَشَّرْتَنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَأَعْطِنَا فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ نَاسٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْيَمَنِ فَقَالَ «اقْبَلُوا الْبُشْرَى يَا أَهْلَ الْيَمَنِ إِذْ لَمْ يَقْبَلْهَا بَنُو تَمِيمٍ» قَالُوا قَدْ قَبِلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ جِئْنَا لِنَتَفَقَّهُ فِي الدِّينِ وَنَسْأَلَكَ عَنْ أَوَّلِ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ مَا كَانَ؟ فَقَالَ «كَانَ اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءٌ قَبْلَهُ وَكَانَ عَرْشُهُ عَلَى الْمَاءِ ثُمَّ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَكَتَبَ فِي الذِّكْرِ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ»
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Chain of narrators
- al-Naḍr b. Muḥammad b. al-Mubārak
- Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān al-ʿIjlī
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá al-ʿAbsī
- Shaybān
- al-Aʿmash
- Jāmiʿ b. Shaddād
- Ṣafwān b. Muḥriz
- ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn
✧ I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when a group from Banū Tamīm came to him and he said, “Receive the glad tidings, O Banū Tamīm.” They said, “You have given us glad tidings, O Messenger of Allah, so give us.” Then some people from the people of Yemen entered upon him and he said, “Receive the glad tidings, O people of Yemen, since Banū Tamīm did not accept it.” They said, “We have accepted, O Messenger of Allah. We have come to gain understanding in the religion and to ask you about the beginning of this matter: what was it?” He said, “Allah existed and there was nothing before Him, and His Throne was upon the water, then He created the heavens and the earth and wrote in the Remembrance everything.”
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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. 6148 - 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. 6148
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- 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), he has a bookd. 164 AHشَيْبَانَثقة , صاحب كتابعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he leaned towards Shiism (kāna yatashayyaʿ).d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَى الْعَبْسِيُّثقة ، كان يتشيعحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 254 AH, or 256 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said in al-Thiqāt 265 AH, or shortly before or after itمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ ج١٤ / ص١١عُثْمَانَ الْعِجْلِيُّثقةحدثنا
- النضر بن محمد بن المباركأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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