al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3125
✧ Virtue of Guiding a Blind Person
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، حَدَّثَنَا سَلْمُ بْنُ سَالِمٍ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ، مَرْفُوعًا:
« مَنْ قَادَ أَعْمَى أَرْبَعِينَ خُطْوَةً، وَجَبَتْ لَهُ الْجَنَّةُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb
- Salm b. Sālim
- ʿAlī b. ʿUrwah
- Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir
- Ibn ʿUmar Marfūʿ
✧ “Whoever leads a blind person forty steps, Paradise becomes obligatory for him.”
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذان الحديثان ضعيفان جدا ولا يثبت من هذا شيء
in المطالب العالية, p. 3125
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضلعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. between 141 and 150 AHعَلِيِّ بْنِ عُرْوَةَمتروكعن
- d. 194 AH, or: 196 AHسَلْمُ بْنُ سَالِمٍحدثنا
- the devout worshipper (al-ʿābid), trustworthy (thiqah)d. 233 AH, or 234 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَالعابد ، ثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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