al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 282
✧ The Adhan Before Dawn in Ramadan
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ السُّكَّرِيِّ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي نَصْرٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ بِلَالٌ ؓ:
أَذَّنْتُ بِلَيْلٍ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: « مَنَعْتَ النَّاسَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ وَالشَّرَابِ، انْطَلِقْ فَاصْعَدْ فَنَادِ: أَلَا إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ قَدْ نَامَ »، فَانْطَلَقْتُ وَأَنَا أَقُولُ: لَيْتَ بِلَالًا لَمْ تَلِدْهُ أُمُّهُ وَابْتَلَّ مِنْ نَضْحِ دَمٍ جَبِينُهْ فَنَادَيْتُ ثَلَاثًا: أَلَا إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ قَدْ نَامَ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Aḥmad b. Ayyūb
- Abū Ḥamzah al-Sukkarī
- Jābir
- Abū Naṣr
- Bilāl
✧ I gave the adhan at night, and the Prophet ﷺ said: "You have prevented the people from food and drink. Go up and call out: 'Behold, the servant has slept.'" So I went, saying: "Would that Bilal's mother had not given birth to him, and his forehead became wet from the splash of blood." Then I called out three times: "Behold, the servant has slept."
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا إسناد ضعيف وفيه انقطاع
machine translationThis chain of transmission is weak (ḍaʿīf), and it contains a break (inqiṭāʿ).
in المطالب العالية, p. 282
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 532Sunan Abi Dawud 533al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 1829Sunan al-Daraqutni 954
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn); he witnessed Badr and the other battlesd. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī and others said: the year 20 AH, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: the year 17 AH or 18 AHبِلَالُ بْنُ رَبَاحٍ سَابِقُ الْحَبَشَةِمن السابقين الأولين ، شهد بدرا والمشاهدقال
- weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)أَبِي نَصْرٍلين الحديثعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), a Rāfiḍīd. 127 AH, or 128 AH, 132 AHجَابِرٍضعيف رافضيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. al-Mizzī reported from Ibn Abī Rizmah that he died 167 AH, Ibn Ḥajar reported from him in Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb: 166 AH, Bishr b. Muḥammad al-Sakhtiyānī said: 168 AHأَبِي حَمْزَةَ السُّكَّرِيِّثقة فاضلعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 231 and 240 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَمقبولأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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