al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2788
✧ The Bee and the Fly
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ بْنُ فَرُّوخَ، ثَنَا سُكَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
عُمُرُ الذُّبَابِ أَرْبَعُونَ لَيْلَةً، وَالذُّبَابُ كُلُّهُ فِي النَّارِ إِلَّا النَّحْلَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Shaybān b. Farrūkh
- Sukayn b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
- his father
- Anas b. Mālik
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The lifespan of a fly is forty nights, and all flies are in the Fire except the bee.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رواه أبو يعلى ورجاله ثقات
machine translationAbū Yaʿlā narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in المطالب العالية, p. 2788 - ابن عدي
فيما يرويه سكين بن عبد العزيز بن قيس بعض النكرة وأرجو أن بعضها يحمل بعضا وأنه لا بأس به
in المطالب العالية, p. 2788
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10516al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11087al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13578al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3486al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2791
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِيهِمقبولعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 171 AH and 180 AHسُكَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِصدوقحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), has lapses (wahm), and accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 235 AH, or 236 AH, or 237 AH, or 238 AHشَيْبَانُ بْنُ فَرُّوخَصدوق يهم , ورمي بالقدرحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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