al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3208
✧ Preserving the Concealment of Secrets
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، حَدَّثَنَا حَبِيبُ بْنُ حَجَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
« خَرَجْتُ مِنْ عِنْدِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مُتَوَجِّهًا إِلَى أَهْلِي، فَمَرَرْتُ بِغِلْمَانٍ يَلْعَبُونَ، فَأَعْجَبَنِي لَعِبُهُمْ، فَقُمْتُ عَلَى الْغِلْمَانِ، فَانْتَهَى إِلَيَّ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ، وَأَقَامَ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى الْغِلْمَانِ، ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَنِي فِي حَاجَةٍ لَهُ، فَرَجَعْتُ إِلَى أُمِّي بَعْدَ الْوَقْتِ الَّذِي كُنْتُ أَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِمْ فِيهِ، فَقَالَتْ أُمِّي: مَا حَبَسَكَ الْيَوْمَ يَا بُنَيَّ ؟ قُلْتُ: أَرْسَلَنِي النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فِي حَاجَةٍ، قَالَتْ: أَيُّ حَاجَةٍ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا أُمَّهْ، إِنَّهَا سِرٌّ. قَالَتْ: يَا بُنَيَّ، فَاحْفَظْ عَلَى نَبِيِّ اللهِ ﷺ سِرَّهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥajjāj
- Ḥabīb b. Ḥajar
- Thābit
- Anas
✧ «I left the Prophet ﷺ heading to my family, and I passed by boys playing. Their play pleased me, so I stood over the boys. The Prophet ﷺ came to me, stood over them, greeted the boys, then sent me on an errand for him. I returned to my mother after the time I usually returned to them. My mother said: "What kept you today, my son?" I said: "The Prophet ﷺ sent me on an errand." She said: "What errand?" He said: I said: "Mother, it is a secret." She said: "My son, keep the secret of the Prophet of Allah ﷺ."
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 12060Musnad Ahmad 13380Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26042Musnad Abi Ya'la 3300
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٌثقة عابدحدثنا
- d. between 161 AH and 170 AHحَبِيبُ بْنُ حَجَرٍحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), makes occasional mistakes (yahimu qalīlan)d. 231 AH, or 232 AH, or 233 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِثقة يهم قليلاحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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