al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3252
✧ Caution and vigilance
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قَالَ أَحْمَدُ فِي الزُّهْدِ: حَدَّثَنَا سُرَيْجٌ، وَعَفَّانُ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيٌّ، عَنْ غَيْلَانَ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ:
« احْتَرِسُوا مِنَ النَّاسِ بِسُوءِ الظَّنِّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad Fī al-Zuhd
- Surayj and ʿAffān
- Mahdī
- Ghaylān
- Muṭarrif
✧ "Guard yourselves from people by thinking ill of them."
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
صح من قول مطرف التابعي
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) as a statement of Muṭarrif, the Successor (tābiʿī).
in المطالب العالية, p. 3252
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 600al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9466al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20477al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3253
Narrators
- 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 AHمُطَرِّف بْن عَبْد الله بْن الشِّخِّير الْحَرَشِيّثقة عابد فاضلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 129 AHغَيْلَانَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during al-Mahdī's caliphate, or: 171 AH, or: 172 AHمَهْدِيٌّثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AHوَعَفَّانُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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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