Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1697
✧ Deserving of Leadership in Prayer by Having More Memorization of the Quran
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَمَّارٍ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَى، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي أَحْمَدَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ:
بَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بَعْثًا وَهُمْ نَفَرٌ، فَدَعَاهُمْ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: " مَاذَا مَعَكَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ " ؟ فَاسْتَقْرَأَهُمْ، حَتَّى مَرَّ عَلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ وَهُوَ مِنْ أَحْدَثِهِمْ سِنًّا، قَالَ: " مَاذَا مَعَكَ يَا فُلَانُ ؟ " قَالَ: مَعِي كَذَا وَكَذَا، وَسُورَةُ الْبَقَرَةِ. قَالَ: " مَعَكَ سُورَةُ الْبَقَرَةِ ؟ " قَالَ: نَعَمْ قَالَ: " اذْهَبْ، فَأَنْتَ أَمِيرُهُمْ "، فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ هُوَ مِنْ أَشْرَفِهِمْ: وَالَّذِي كَذَا وَكَذَا، يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا مَنَعَنِي أَنْ أَتَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ إِلَّا خَشْيَةَ أَنْ لَا أَقُومَ بِهِ. قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: تَعَلَّمِ الْقُرْآنَ فَاقْرَأْهُ، وَارْقُدْ؛ فَإِنَّ مَثَلَ الْقُرْآنِ لِمَنْ تَعَلَّمَهُ فَقَرَأَهُ وَقَامَ بِهِ كَمَثَلِ جِرَابٍ مَحْشُوٍّ مِسْكًا، يَفُوحُ رِيحُهُ عَلَى كُلِّ مَكَانٍ، وَمَنْ تَعَلَّمَهُ فَرَقَدَ وَهُوَ فِي جَوْفِهِ كَمَثَلِ جِرَابٍ أُوكِيَ عَلَى مِسْكٍ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Ṭāhir
- Abū Bakr
- Abū ʿAmmār al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth
- al-Faḍl b. Mūsá
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar
- Saʿīd al-Maqburī
- ʿAṭāʾ a freed slave of Abū Aḥmad
- Abū Hurayrah
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent out a military expedition, and they were a small group. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ called them and said: "How much of the Quran do you have with you?" So he assessed them until he came to a man among them who was one of the youngest of them in age. He said: "How much do you have with you, O so-and-so?" He said: "I have such-and-such, and Surah al-Baqarah." He said: "You have Surah al-Baqarah?" He said: "Yes." He said: "Go, for you are their leader." A man who was one of their nobles said: "By the One who is such-and-such, O Messenger of Allah, nothing prevented me from learning the Quran except fear that I would not be able to fulfill it." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Learn the Quran, recite it, and sleep. For the likeness of the Quran for one who learns it, recites it, and acts upon it is like a leather bag filled with musk, whose fragrance spreads everywhere. And one who learns it and sleeps while it is in his heart is like a leather bag tied over musk."
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- Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī
إسحاق بن عبد الواحد لا أعرفه وقد رواه غير عبد الحميد بن جعفر فأرسله والمشهور مرسل
machine translationIsḥāq b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid: I do not know him. Someone other than ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar has narrated it and transmitted it as a mursal report, and the well-known version is mursal.
in صحيح ابن خزيمة, p. 1697 - Dāraquṭnī
اختلف فيه على المقبري فرواه عمر بن طلحة بن عمرو بن علقمة ابن أخي محمد بن عمرو بن علقمة عن المقبري عن أبي هريرة وخالفه عبد الحميد بن جعفر فرواه عن المقبري عن عطاء مولى أبي أحمد عن أبي هريرة ورواه الليث بن سعد عن المقبري عن عطاء مولى أبي أحمد مرسلا لم يذكر أبا هريرة وقول الليث أشبه بالصواب حدثنا النيسابوري ثنا محمد بن إسحاق الصاغاني قال سمعت يحيى بن معين يقول أثبت الناس في سعيد الليث بن سعد
machine translationThere was disagreement about it on the authority of al-Maqburī. ʿUmar b. Ṭalḥah b. ʿAmr b. ʿAlqamah, the nephew of Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAlqamah, narrated it from al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar contradicted him and narrated it from al-Maqburī, from ʿAṭāʾ, the freed slave of Abū Aḥmad, from Abū Hurayrah. And al-Layth b. Saʿd narrated it from al-Maqburī, from ʿAṭāʾ, the freed slave of Abū Aḥmad, as a mursal report, without mentioning Abū Hurayrah. The statement of al-Layth is closer to being correct. Al-Naysābūrī narrated to us: Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ṣāghānī narrated to us, he said: I heard Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn say: The most reliable of people regarding Saʿīd is al-Layth b. Saʿd.
in صحيح ابن خزيمة, p. 1697 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
الصحيح ما رواه الليث
machine translationThe sound version is what al-Layth narrated.
in صحيح ابن خزيمة, p. 1697
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Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)عَطَاءٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي أَحْمَدَمقبولعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AHسَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and he sometimes erred (wahima)d. 153 AHعَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍصدوق رمي بالقدر ، وربما وهمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), though at times he narrated unusual reports (aghraba)d. 192 AHالْفَضْلُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة ثبت وربما أغربحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 244 AHأَبُو عَمَّارٍ ج٣ / ص٣٩الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 311 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ
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