al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 285
✧ The Imam Should Not Be the Mu'adhdhin
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حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى، أَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ عَنْ شُبَيْلِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ، قَالَ:
إِنَّ عُمَرَ ؓ قَالَ لِجُلَسَائِهِ: « مَنْ مُؤَذِّنُكُمْ ؟ » قَالُوا: عَبِيدُنَا وَمَوَالِينَا، قَالَ: « مَوَالِينَا وَعَبِيدُنَا، إِنَّ ذَلِكَ بِكُمْ لَنَقْصٌ كَثِيرٌ
Translation
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- ʿĪsá
- Ismāʿīl
- Shubayl b. ʿAwf
✧ Umar ؓ said to his sitting companions: "Who is your mu'adhdhin?" They said: "Our slaves and freedmen." He said: "Our freedmen and our slaves. That is a great deficiency for you."
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Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 2359Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 1888al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2035
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- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبإن
- trustworthy (thiqah), his Companionship is not authenticd. between 91 and 100 AHشُبَيْلِ بْنِ عَوْفٍثقة ، لم تصح صحبتهعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُثقة ثبتأنا
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AHعِيسَىثقة مأمونحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمسدد بن مسرهدثقة حافظ
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