al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3198
✧ Censure of Arrogance and Praise of Humility
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ فِي الزُّهْدِ: حَدَّثَنَا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، عَنْ كَعْبٍ، قَالَ:
« مَا مِنْ آدَمِيٍّ إِلَّا وَفِي رَأْسِهِ حِكْمَةٌ، وَهِيَ بِيَدِ مَلَكٍ، فَإِنْ تَوَاضَعَ رَفَعَهُ، وَإِنْ تَكَبَّرَ وَضَعَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad Fī al-Zuhd
- Aswad b. ʿĀmir
- Ḥammād
- Thābit
- Muṭarrif
- Kaʿb
✧ There is no human being but has wisdom in his head, and it is in the hand of an angel; if he humbles himself, the angel raises him, and if he is arrogant, the angel lowers him.
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 11341Sahih Ibn Hibban 5678al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12974Musnad al-Bazzar 7851Musnad Abi Ya'la 1377al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7877
Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 34 AH, also said: 32 AH, and al-Wāqidī stated it definitively, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, and more than oneكَعْب الأَحْبَارثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 87 AH, or: 95 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died after the Plague of al-Jārif, and the Plague of al-Jārif was in the year 69 AHمُطَرِّفٍثقة عابد فاضلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH, or 208 AHأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأَحْمَدُثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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