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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1379

✧ The Night of Decree

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1379 1117 / 4 - وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو زُمَيْلٍ سِمَاكٌ الْحَنَفِيُّ، ثَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي مَرْثَدٌ قَالَ:

سَأَلْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ ؓ، فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ.

The text that “the like of it” refers to

سَأَلَتْ أَبَا ذَرّ فَقُلْت أَسَأَلَتْ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ قَالَ نَعَم كُنْت أَسْأَلُ النَّاسَ عَنْهَا قَالَ عِكْرِمَة يَعْنِي أَشْبَعَ سُؤَالًا قُلْت يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Musaddad
  2. Yaḥyá
  3. ʿIkrimah b. ʿAmmār
  4. Abū Zumayl Simāk al-Ḥanafī
  5. Mālik b. Marthad
  6. Abū Marthad

✧ I asked Abu Dharr ؓ, and he mentioned something similar.

The text that “the like of it” refers to

I asked Abu Dharr, and I said: Did you ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about the Night of Decree? He said: Yes. I used to ask people about it. 'Ikrimah said: meaning he asked exhaustively. I said: O Messenger of Allah...

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Al-Mathalib al-'Aliyah 1378كُنْتُ مَعَ أَبِي ذَرٍّ ؓ، فَذَكَرَهُ، وَزَادَ فِيهِ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَأَخْبِرْنَا بِهَا ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: لَوْ أُذِنَ لِي فِيهَا لَأَخْبَرْتُكُمْ بِهَا

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 20376Musnad Ahmad 24814Musnad Ahmad 5651al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11891al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1598al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1374

Narrators

  1. Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
    أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
    سألت
  2. Marthad b. ʿAbdullāh
    acceptable (maqbūl)
    أَبِي مَرْثَدٌمقبول
    حدثني
  3. Mālik b. Marthad
    trustworthy (thiqah)
    مَالِكُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍثقة
    حدثنا
  4. Abū Zumayl
    there is no harm in him (laysa bihi baʾs)d. between 111 and 120 AH
    أَبُو زُمَيْلٍ سِمَاكٌ الْحَنَفِيُّليس به بأس
    حدثني
  5. ʿIkrimah b. ʿAmmār
    truthful (ṣadūq) but makes errors; there is inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in his narration from Yaḥyā b. Abī Kathīr, and he had no bookd. 159 AH, or 160 AH
    عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍصدوق يغلط ، وفي روايته عن يحيى بن أبي كثير اضطراب ، ولم يكن له كتاب
    عن
  6. Yaḥyā
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
    يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
    حدثنا
  7. Musaddad
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
    مُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ

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