al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2787
✧ The Wolf
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ، ثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي الْحَارِثِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ، يُقَالُ لَهُ: أَبُو الْأَوْبَرِ، قَالَ:
كُنْتُ قَاعِدًا عِنْدَ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ فَذَكَرَ قِصَّةً... قَالَ: ثُمَّ أَنْشَأَ يُحَدِّثُ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَوْمًا خَارِجًا وَنَحْنُ عِنْدَهُ جُلُوسٌ، إِذْ جَاءَهُ الذِّئْبُ حَتَّى أَقْعَى بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ ثُمَّ بَصْبَصَ [بِذَنَبِهِ]. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: هَذَا الذِّئْبُ، وَهَذَا وَافِدُ الذِّيَابِ، فَمَا تَرَوْنَ ؟ أَتَجْعَلُونَ لَهُ مِنْ أَمْوَالِكُمْ شَيْئًا ؟، فَقَالَ النَّاسُ: لَا وَاللهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، لَا نَجْعَلُ لَهُ مِنْ أَمْوَالِنَا شَيْئًا. فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ فَرَمَاهُ بِحَجَرٍ فَأَدْبَرَ وَلَهُ عُوَاءٌ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: الذِّئْبُ وَمَا الذِّئْبُ ". ثَلَاثَ مِرَارٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Zuhayr
- Jarīr
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr
- a man Min Banī al-Ḥārith b. Kaʿb Yuqāl Lah Abū al-Awbar
✧ I was sitting with Abu Hurayrah ؓ and he mentioned a story... He said: Then he began to narrate, saying: 'One day the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was outside while we were sitting with him, when a wolf came to him and sat on its haunches in front of him, then wagged its tail. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: This is the wolf, and this is the envoy of the wolves. What do you think? Would you give it something from your wealth? The people said: No, by Allah, O Messenger of Allah, we will not give it anything from our wealth. A man got up and threw a stone at it, and it turned back howling. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The wolf, and what about the wolf? Three times.'
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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 الصحابةصريح في السماع
- أَبُو الْأَوْبَرِعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eloquent, a scholar; his memory changed and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH or 136 AHعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍثقة , فصيح عالم ، تغير حفظه وربما دلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHزُهَيْرٌثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.