al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2524
✧ God may support the religion at times through a person of no moral standing
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وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَامِرُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ، يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
إِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَيُؤَيِّدُ هَذَا الدِّينَ بِالرَّجُلِ الْفَاجِرِ.
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Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
- al-Aʿmash
- al-Musayyib b. Rāfiʿ
- ʿĀmir b. ʿAbdah
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ God, Mighty and Majestic, indeed supports this religion with the wicked man.
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- Dāraquṭnī
والمحفوظ عن عاصم عن زر عن عبد الله قوله غير مرفوع
in المطالب العالية, p. 2524
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 111Musnad Ahmad 8090Musnad Ahmad 8091al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17251Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 9667al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16935
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةسمعت
- Ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy (waththaqahu)عَامِرُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَوثقه ابن معينقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AHالْمُسَيِّبِ بْنِ رَافِعٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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