Sahih Ibn Hibban 641
✧ Having good thoughts about Allah Almighty
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أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُهَاجِرِ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ حَيَّانَ أَبِي النَّضْرِ قَالَ
خَرَجْتُ عَائِدًا لِيَزِيدَ بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِ فَلَقِيتُ وَاثِلَةَ بْنَ الْأَسْقَعِ وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ عِيَادَتَهُ فَدَخَلْنَا عَلَيْهِ فَلَمَّا رَأَى وَاثِلَةَ بَسَطَ يَدَهُ وَجَعَلَ يُشِيرُ إِلَيْهِ فَأَقْبَلَ وَاثِلَةُ حَتَّى جَلَسَ فَأَخَذَ يَزِيدُ بِكَفَّيْ وَاثِلَةَ فَجَعَلَهُمَا عَلَى وَجْهِهِ فقَالَ لَهُ وَاثِلَةُ كَيْفَ ظَنُّكَ بِاللَّهِ؟ قَالَ ظَنِّي بِاللَّهِ وَاللَّهِ حَسَنٌ قَالَ فَأَبْشِرْ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ وَعَلَا أَنَا عِنْدَ ظَنِّ عَبْدِي بِي إِنْ ظَنَّ خَيْرًا وَإِنْ ظَنَّ شَرًّا»
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Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī
- ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
- my father
- Muḥammad b. al-Muhājir
- Yazīd b. ʿUbaydah
- Ḥayyān Abū al-Naḍr
✧ I went out to visit Yazid b. al-Aswad, and I met Wathilah b. al-Asqaʿ who also wanted to visit him. We entered upon him, and when he saw Wathilah, he stretched out his hand and gestured toward him. Wathilah came forward until he sat down. Yazid took Wathilah’s palms and placed them on his face. Wathilah said to him: “How do you think of Allah?” He said: “By Allah, my thought of Allah is good.” He said: “Then rejoice, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: I am as My servant thinks of Me, whether he thinks good or thinks evil.’”
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- a well-known Companiond. 83 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AHوَاثِلَةُ بْنُ الْأَسْقَعِ اللَّيْثِيُّصحابي مشهورصريح في السماع
- d. between 111 AH and 120 AHحَيَّانَ أَبِي النَّضْرِعن
- truthful (ṣadūq).d. 150 AHيَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبِيدَةَصدوق .عن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. al-Haytham b. Khārijah and others said: 170 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 137 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُهَاجِرِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 209 AHأَبِيثقة ، عابدحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 250 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَصدوقحدثنا
- d. 311 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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