al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3206
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وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ:
كَتَبَ أَبُو مُوسَى ؓ إِلَى عَامِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ: مِنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ إِلَى عَامِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الَّذِي يُقَالُ لَهُ: ابْنُ عَبْدِ قَيْسٍ، « أَمَّا بَعْدُ: إِنْ كُنْتَ تَغَيَّرْتَ فَعُدْ، وَإِنْ كُنْتَ لَمْ تَتَغَيَّرْ فَدُمْ، وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Ḥammād
- Hishām b. Ḥassān
- Muḥammad b. Sīrīn
✧ Abu Musa ؓ wrote to ʿAmir b. ʿAbd Allah: "From ʿAbd Allah b. Qays to ʿAmir b. ʿAbd Allah, who is called Ibn ʿAbd Qays. To proceed: If you have changed, then return; and if you have not changed, then continue. And peace be upon you."
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Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26383Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26402Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35965Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20989
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهوركتب
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنىعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Ibn Sīrīn; there is some criticism of his narration from al-Ḥasan and ʿAṭāʾ, because it was said that he used to narrate from them by way of mursal transmission (irsāl).d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or 148 AHهِشَامِ بْنِ حَسَّانَثقة من أثبت الناس في ابن سيرين ، وفي روايته عن الحسن وعطاء مقال لأنه قيل : كان يرسل عنهماعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه.حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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