al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2207
✧ Until When Is the Apostate's Repentance Accepted
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ، ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا، عَنِ الْمُعَلَّى، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ؓ قَالَ:
إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ اسْتَتَابَ رَجُلًا ارْتَدَّ عَنِ الْإِسْلَامِ أَرْبَعَ مَرَّاتٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Abū al-Rabīʿ
- Ismāʿīl b. Zakariyyā
- al-Muʿallá
- ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl
- Jābir
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked a man who had apostatized from Islam to repent four times.
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- ابن الملقن
إسناده واه
machine translationIts chain of transmission is very weak (wāhin).
in المطالب العالية, p. 2207 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
رواه أبو الشيخ في كتاب الحدود من طريق المعلى بن هلال وهو متروك عن عبد الله بن محمد بن عقيل عن جابر
in المطالب العالية, p. 2207
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), with some laxity (layyin) in his hadith; it is said that his memory changed towards the end of his life.d. after 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 145 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍصدوق في حديثه لين ، ويقال : تغير بآخرهعن
- The critics agreed on declaring him a liard. between 171 AH, and: 180 AHالْمُعَلَّىاتفق النقاد على تكذيبهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes few mistakesd. 173 AH, or 174 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّاصدوق ، يخطئ قليلاحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), no one criticised him with a proofd. 234 AH, also said: 235 AHأَبُو الرَّبِيعِثقة , لم يتكلم فيه أحد بحجةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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