al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2503
✧ Disapproval of leadership for one not capable of it
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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَةُ، ثَنَا الْإِفْرِيقِيُّ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ نُعَيْمٍ، عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الصُّدَائِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
لَا خَيْرَةَ فِي الْإِمْرَةِ لِرَجُلٍ مُؤْمِنٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- ʿAbdah
- al-Ifrīqī
- Ziyād b. Nuʿaym
- Ziyād b. al-Ḥārith al-Ṣudāʾī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ There is no good in leadership for a believing man.
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- Baghawī
تضعيف هذا الحديث
machine translationDeclaring this hadith weak.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - Ibn al-Sakan
في إسناده نظر
machine translationThere is some question (naẓar) about its chain.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
إلا أن عبد الرحمن بن زياد الإفريقي في إسناد خبره
machine translationExcept that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ziyād al-Ifrīqī is in the chain of his report.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
انفرد به عبد الرحمن بن زياد الإفريقي وليس بحجة عندهم
machine translationʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ziyād al-Ifrīqī was alone in narrating it, and he is not considered an authority (ḥujjah) according to them.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503
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- Yaḥyá b. Maʿīn
لهذه الغرائب ضعف ابن معين حديثه يعني هذا الحديث وغيره
machine translationBecause of these oddities, Ibn Maʿīn declared his hadith weak (ḍaʿīf), meaning this hadith and others.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
إسناد فيه لين يدور على عبد الرحمن بن زياد الأفريقي
machine translationA chain with weakness (layyin), which revolves around ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ziyād al-Ifrīqī.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
أن من أذن فهو يقيم ورووا فيه حديثا عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم بإسناد فيه لين يدور على الإفريقي عبد الرحمن بن زياد
machine translationThat whoever gave the call to prayer is the one who gives the iqāmah. They narrated a hadith about it from the Prophet ﷺ with a chain containing weakness (layyin), which revolves around al-Ifrīqī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ziyād.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - Sufyān al-Thawrī
جاءنا ابن أنعم بستة أحاديث مرفوعة لم أسمع أحدا من العلماء يرفعها وذكر مها هذا
machine translationIbn Anʿum came to us with six raised (marfūʿ) hadiths that I did not hear any of the scholars raise to the Prophet, and he mentioned this one among them.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - أبو زرعة الرازي
الأفريقي وحرك رأسه
machine translationAl-Ifrīqī, and he shook his head.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - Ibn Rajab
اختلف عليهالافريقى في لفظ الحديث
machine translationThere was disagreement about al-Ifrīqī regarding the wording of the hadith.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
عبد الرحمن بن زياد هو الإفريقي وأكثرهم يضعفونه وليس يروي هذا الحديث غيره
machine translationʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ziyād is al-Ifrīqī, and most of them declare him weak (ḍaʿḥafa), and no one other than him narrates this hadith.
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - al-Tirmidhi
هذا الحديث إنما يعرف من حديث الأفريقي وهو ضعيف عند أهل الحديث ضعفه يحيى بن سعيد القطان وغيره وقال أحمد لا أكتب حديثه قال ورأيت محمد ابن إسماعيل يقوي أمره ويقول هو مقارب الحديث
machine translationThis hadith is only known from the hadith of al-Ifrīqī, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf) according to the hadith scholars; Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān and others declared him weak. Aḥmad said: I do not write down his hadith. He said: and I saw Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl strengthening his standing and saying: he is close in hadith (muqārib al-ḥadīth).
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503 - ابن الملقن
والأقرب ضعفه وفي حسنه وقفة
machine translationThe more likely view is that it is weak, and there is reason to pause regarding its being good (ḥasan).
in المطالب العالية, p. 2503
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 17536al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5291al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20275al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4545al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4553
Narrators
- he was a Companion and came in a delegationزِيَادُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ الصُّدَائِيُّله صحبة ووفادةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 95 AHزِيَادِ بْنِ نُعَيْمٍثقةعن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf) in his memory, he was a righteous mand. 156 AH, also said: 161 AHالْإِفْرِيقِيُّضعيف في حفظه ، وكان رجلا صالحاحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 186 AH or 187 AH or 188 AHعَبْدَةُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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