Sahih Ibn Hibban 857
✧ The Remembrance
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
«إِنَّ لِلَّهِ مَلَائِكَةً فُضُلًا عَنْ كُتَّابِ النَّاسِ يَطُوفُونَ فِي الطُّرُقِ يَلْتَمِسُونَ أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ فَإِذَا وَجَدُوا قَوْمًا يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ تَنَادَوْا هَلُمُّوا إِلَى حَاجَتِكُمْ فَيَحُفُّونَ بِهِمْ بِأَجْنِحَتِهِمْ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فَيَسْأَلُهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ مِنْهُمْ فَيَقُولُ مَا يَقُولُ عِبَادِي؟ فَيَقُولُونَ يُكَبِّرُونَكَ وَيُمَجِّدُونَكَ وَيُسَبِّحُونَكَ وَيَحْمَدُونَكَ فَيَقُولُ هَلْ رَأَوْنِي؟ فَيَقُولُونَ لَا فَيَقُولُ فَكَيْفَ لَوْ رَأَوْنِي؟ فَيَقُولُونَ لَوْ رَأَوْكَ لَكَانُوا لَكَ أَشَدَّ عِبَادَةً وَأَكْثَرَ تَسْبِيحًا وَتَحْمِيدًا وَتَمْجِيدًا فَيَقُولُ وَمَا يَسْأَلُونِي؟ قَالَ فَيَقُولُونَ يَسْأَلُونَكَ الْجَنَّةَ فَيَقُولُ فَهَلْ رَأَوْهَا؟ فَيَقُولُونَ لَا وَاللَّهِ يَا رَبِّ فَيَقُولُ فَكَيْفَ لَوْ رَأَوْهَا؟ فَيَقُولُونَ لَوْ رَأَوْهَا كَانُوا عَلَيْهَا أَشَدَّ حِرْصًا وَأَشَدَّ طَلَبًا وَأَعْظَمَ فِيهَا رَغْبَةً فَيَقُولُ وَمِمَّ يَتَعَوَّذُونَ؟ فَيَقُولُونَ مِنَ النَّارِ فَيَقُولُ وَهَلْ رَأَوْهَا؟ فَيَقُولُونَ لَا وَاللَّهِ يَا رَبِّ فَيَقُولُ فَكَيْفَ لَوْ رَأَوْهَا؟ فَيَقُولُونَ لَوْ رَأَوْهَا لَكَانُوا مِنْهَا أَشَدَّ فِرَارًا وَأَشَدَّ هَرَبًا وَأَشَدَّ خَوْفًا فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ لِمَلَائِكَتِهِ أُشْهِدُكُمْ أَنِّي قَدْ غَفَرْتُ لَهُمْ قَالَ فَقَالَ مَلَكٌ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنَّ فِيهِمْ فُلَانًا لَيْسَ مِنْهُمْ إِنَّمَا جَاءَ لِحَاجَةٍ قَالَ فَهُمُ الْجُلَسَاءُ لَا يَشْقَى جَلِيسُهُمْ»
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Azdī
- Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
- Jarīr
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Indeed Allah has angels who are extra beyond the recorders of people's deeds. They roam the roads seeking out the people of remembrance. When they find a group remembering Allah, they call to one another, 'Come to what you seek!' They surround them with their wings up to the nearest heaven. Then their Lord asks them, though He knows better than them, 'What are My servants saying?' They say, 'They magnify You, extol You, glorify You, and praise You.' He says, 'Have they seen Me?' They say, 'No.' He says, 'How would it be if they saw Me?' They say, 'If they saw You, they would worship You even more intensely, and glorify, praise, and extol You even more.' He says, 'What are they asking of Me?' They say, 'They ask You for Paradise.' He says, 'Have they seen it?' They say, 'No, by Allah, O Lord.' He says, 'How would it be if they saw it?' They say, 'If they saw it, they would be even more eager for it, more desirous of it, and greater in their longing for it.' He says, 'From what are they seeking refuge?' They say, 'From the Fire.' He says, 'Have they seen it?' They say, 'No, by Allah, O Lord.' He says, 'How would it be if they saw it?' They say, 'If they saw it, they would flee from it even more, run from it even more, and fear it even more.' Then Allah says to His angels, 'I call you to witness that I have forgiven them.' One of the angels said, 'Among them is so-and-so, who is not one of them; he only came for some need.' He said, 'They are the companions; the one who sits with them will not be wretched.'
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- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- 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), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ مجتهدحدثنا
- d. 305 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَزْدِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
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