al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3295
✧ Love and brotherhood
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْجَعْدِ، حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
مَا تَحَابَّ رَجُلَانِ قَطُّ، إِلَّا كَانَ أَفْضَلُهُمَا أَشَدَّهُمَا حُبًّا لِصَاحِبِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- ʿAlī b. al-Jaʿd
- Mubārak b. Faḍālah
- Thābit
- Anas
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ No two men ever loved each other except that the better of them was the one who loved his companion more.
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- Dāraquṭnī
رواه حماد بن سلمة عن ثابت مرسلا قال وهو الصواب
machine translationḤammād b. Salamah narrated it from Thābit as a mursal report (mursal), and he said: "This is the correct version."
in المطالب العالية, p. 3295 - ابن عدي
عامة أحاديثه أرجو أن تكون مستقيمة فقد احتمل من قد رمي بالضعف أكثر ما رمي مبارك بن فضالة به
machine translationMost of his hadiths, I hope, are sound (mustaqīmah); for those accused of weakness (ḍaʿf) have been tolerated more than what Mubārak b. Faḍālah was accused of.
in المطالب العالية, p. 3295 - Dāraquṭnī
وهو الصواب
machine translationAnd this is the correct one.
in المطالب العالية, p. 3295
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 566Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20403Musnad al-Bazzar 6872Musnad Abi Ya'la 3420al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7323
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 AHثَابِتٍثقة عابدعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), practises concealment (tadlīs) including tadlīs al-taswiyahd. 164 AH, or 165 AH, or 166 AHمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَصدوق يدلس ويسويحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 230 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ الْجَعْدِثقة ثبت ، رمي بالتشيعحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.