al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3142
✧ Censure of Lying and Praise of Truthfulness
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وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ، قَالَ:
« لَا يَصْلُحُ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ فِي جِدٍّ، وَلَا هَزْلٍ
Translation
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- Abū ʿAwānah
- Abū Isḥāq
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh
✧ 'No lying is proper in seriousness or jest.'
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
موقوف صحيح
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) as a statement of a Companion (mawqūf)
in المطالب العالية, p. 3142
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 3896Sunan ad-Darimi 2757al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8550al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8552Musnad Abi Ya'la 5366al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 440
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsufأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AHأَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمسدد بن مسرهدثقة حافظ
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