Sahih al-Bukhari 3745

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said to the people of Nijran, "I will send you the most trustworthy man." (Every one of) the companions of the Prophet ﷺ was looking forward (to be that person). He then sent Abu 'Ubaida.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4380Sahih al-Bukhari 7254Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3796Musnad Ahmad 12481Musnad Ahmad 3930al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8161

Narrators

1. 1
   Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān

   An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an error
   حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقين
   عن
2. 2
   Ṣilah b. Zufar

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. around the 70 AH, during the governorship of Muṣʿab b. al-Zubayr
   صِلَةَثقة جليل
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muslim b. Ibrāhīm

   trustworthy (thiqah), dependable (maʾmūn), a prolific narrator (mukthir); he went blind at the end of his lifed. Ibn Saʿd and others said: 222 AH, in «Zahrat al-Mutaʿallimīn»: 221 AH
   مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة مأمون مكثر ، عمي بآخره
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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