al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2525
✧ Giving precedence in command to the best reciter over the nobler and older
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قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو تُمَيْلَةَ يَحْيَى بْنُ وَاضِحٍ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ:
إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ أَرْسَلَ سَرِيَّةً فَاسْتَقْرَأَهُمْ، فَقَرَأَ شَيْخٌ، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ شَابٌّ فَاسْتَعْمَلَهُ، فَقَالَ الشَّيْخُ: اسْتَعْمَلْتَهُ عَلَيَّ، وَأَنَا أَكْبَرُ مِنْهُ سِنًّا ؟ فَقَالَ ﷺ: إِنَّهُ أَكْثَرُ مِنْكَ قُرْآنًا.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Abū Tumaylah Yaḥyá b. Wāḍiḥ
- Mūsá b. ʿUbaydah
- Saʿīd al-Maqburī
- Abū Hurayrah
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ sent out a military expedition and had them recite. An old man recited, then a young man recited, so he appointed the young man. The old man said: "You appointed him over me, while I am older than him in age?" He ﷺ said: "He has more Qur'an than you."
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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 (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AHسَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلةعن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf), especially in his narration from ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār; and he was devout (ʿābid).d. 152 AH, or 153 AHمُوسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَضعيف ، ولا سيما في عبد الله بن دينار ، وكان عابداعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 200 AHأَبُو تُمَيْلَةَ يَحْيَى بْنُ وَاضِحٍثقة .حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.