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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2526

✧ Giving precedence in command to the best reciter over the nobler and older

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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي يَقُولُ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ، قَالَ: إِنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبِي لَيْلَى، حَدَّثَهُ قَالَ:

خَرَجْتُ مَعَ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ إِلَى مَكَّةَ فَاسْتَقْبَلَنَا أَمِيرُ مَكَّةَ نَافِعُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ، وَتَسَمَّى بِنَافِعٍ عَمٍّ لَهُ، فَقَالَ: مَنِ اسْتَخْلَفْتَ عَلَى أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ ؟ قَالَ: عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبْزَى. قَالَ: عَمَدْتَ إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمَوَالِي وَاسْتَخْلَفْتَهُ عَلَى مَنْ بِهَا مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَأَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ وَجَدْتُهُ أَقْرَأَهُمْ لِكِتَابِ اللهِ، وَمَكَّةُ أَرْضٌ مُحْتَضَرَةٌ، فَأَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ يَسْمَعُوا كِتَابَ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ رَجُلٍ حَسَنِ الْقِرَاءَةِ. فَقَالَ: نِعْمَ مَا رَأَيْتَ، إِنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبْزَى مِمَّنْ يَرْفَعُهُ اللهُ بِالْقُرْآنِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Yaʿlá
  2. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Shaqīq
  3. my father
  4. al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid
  5. Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit
  6. In ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Laylá

✧ I went out with Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ to Makkah. The governor of Makkah, Nafi' b. 'Alqamah—who was named after an uncle of his—met us. He asked: "Whom have you appointed as your successor over the people of Makkah?" He said: "Abd al-Rahman b. Abza." He said: "You chose a man from the clients and appointed him over the Quraysh and the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ who are there?" He said: "Yes, I found him to be the best reciter of the Book of God among them, and Makkah is a land that is frequently visited, so I wanted them to hear the Book of God, Mighty and Majestic, from a man with excellent recitation." He said: "What a good opinion you have. Abd al-Rahman b. Abza is among those whom God raises through the Qur'an."

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  • Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

    رجاله ثقات وفيه نظر لأن عبد الرحمن يصغر عن ذلك وقد أخرجه مسلم من طريق الزهري عن أبي الطفيل عن عمر رضي الله عنه بغير هذا السياق وفيه القصة بالمعنى وقال فيه فتلقاه نافع بن الحارث الخزاعي وهو المحفوظ

    in المطالب العالية, p. 2526
  • Dāraquṭnī

    وحديث الزهري هو الصواب

    machine translationThe hadith of al-Zuhrī is the correct one.

    in المطالب العالية, p. 2526

Narrators

  1. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
    عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
    صريح في السماع
  2. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abī Laylá
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, also said: 71 AH, which is a mistake
    عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ أَبِي لَيْلَىثقة
    عن
  3. Ḥabīb b. Abī Thābit al-Kāhilī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), an eminent jurist; he often narrated mursal reports (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs).d. 119 AH, or 122 AH
    حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليس
    عن
  4. al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid
    Trustworthy (thiqah), with some errors (awhām)d. 159 AH, also said: 157 AH
    الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍثقة ، له أوهام
    حدثنا
  5. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Shaqīq
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 211 AH, 215 AH, also said: 212 AH
    أَبِيثقة حافظ
    سمعت
  6. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Shaqīq
    trustworthy (thiqah), hadith specialistd. 250 AH, or 251 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍثقة صاحب حديث
    حدثنا
  7. Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī
    d. 307 AH
    أَبُو يَعْلَى

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