Muwatta' Malik 47-5
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ أَبِي سُهَيْلِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ كَعْبِ الأَحْبَارِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
إِذَا أَحْبَبْتُمْ أَنْ تَعْلَمُوا مَا لِلْعَبْدِ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِ فَانْظُرُوا مَاذَا يَتْبَعُهُ مِنْ حُسْنِ الثَّنَاءِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- ʿAmmih Abū Suhayl b. Mālik
- his father
- Kaʿb al-Aḥbār
Yahya related to me from Malik from his paternal uncle, Abu Suhayl ibn Malik from his father that Kab al-Ahbar said, "If you want to know what a slave has with his Lord, then look at whatever good praise follows him."
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Maqtu Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 34 AH, also said: 32 AH, and al-Wāqidī stated it definitively, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, and more than oneكَعْب الأَحْبَارثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 74 AH, and from al-Wāqidī: 112 AH, al-Mizzī said: it is undoubtedly an errorأَبِيهِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 140 AHأَبِي سُهَيْلِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقةعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
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Commentaries
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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