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Sahih Ibn Hibban 6856

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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ رَجَاءٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْهُذَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

«لَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا خَلِيلًا لَاتَّخَذْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ خَلِيلًا وَلَكِنَّهُ أَخِي وَصَاحِبِي وَقَدِ اتَّخَذَ اللَّهُ صَاحِبَكُمْ خَلِيلًا»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná
  2. Abū Khaythamah
  3. Ibn Mahdī
  4. Shuʿbah
  5. Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū al-Hudhayl
  7. Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
  8. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
  9. al-Nabī ﷺ

✧ “If I were to take a close friend, I would have taken Abu Bakr as a close friend, but he is my brother and my companion, and Allah has taken your companion as a close friend.”

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 467

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
    One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
    عن
  2. ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Naḍlah al-Jushamī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf
    أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقة
    عن
  3. ʿAbdullāh b. Abī al-Hudhayl
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of Khālid al-Qasrī
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْهُذَيْلِثقة
    عن
  4. Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ al-Zubaydī
    Trustworthy (thiqah); al-Azdī spoke against him without proofd. between 111 and 120 AH
    إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ رَجَاءٍثقة ، تكلم فيه الأزدي بلا حجة
    عن
  5. Shuʿbah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقن
    عن
  6. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
    ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
    حدثنا
  7. Abū Khaythamah
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
    أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  8. Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī
    d. 307 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى
    أخبرنا
  9. Ibn Ḥibbān
    d. 354 AH
    ابن حبان

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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