al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1604
✧ Visiting the Grave of the Prophet ﷺ
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ أَبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ -:
لَا تَجْعَلُنَّ قَبْرِي وَثَنًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Isḥāq b. Abū Isrāʾīl
- Sufyān
- Suhayl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Do not make my grave an idol.
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- Bazzār
حديث سهيل هذا إنما يجيء من هذا الطريق لم يحدث به إلا ابن عيينة عن حمزة بن المغيرة عن سهيل
in المطالب العالية, p. 1604
Other narrations of this report
Muwatta' Malik 9-93Musnad Ahmad 7358Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11939Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7625Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 15991Musnad al-Bazzar 9091
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
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِيهِثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq); his memory deteriorated at the end of his lifed. 138 AH, or: 140 AH, or: 141 AH, in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AHسُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), criticized for suspending judgement (waqf) on the Qurʾānd. 245 AH, or 246 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ أَبِي إِسْرَائِيلَصدوق ، تكلم فيه لوقفه في القرآنحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.