al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3301
✧ Reason and its virtue
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قَالَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ أَبِي أُسَامَةَ: ثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ الْمُحَبَّرِ، ثَنَا مَيْسَرَةُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ قَالَ:
إِنَّ عُمَرَ، وَأَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ، وَأُبَيَّ بْنَ كَعْبٍ، دَخَلُوا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَنْ أَعْلَمُ النَّاسِ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: الْعَاقِلُ، قَالُوا: فَمَنْ أَعْبَدُ النَّاسِ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: الْعَاقِلُ، قَالُوا: فَمَنْ أَفْضَلُ النَّاسِ ؟ قَالَ: الْعَاقِلُ، فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَلَيْسَ الْعَاقِلُ مَنْ تَمَّتْ مُرُوءَتُهُ، وَظَهَرَتْ فَصَاحَتُهُ، وَعَظُمَتْ مَنْزِلَتُهُ، فَقَالَ: فَإِنَّ كُلَّ ذَلِكَ لَمَّا مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا ( الْآيَةَ )، وَلَكِنَّ الْعَاقِلَ الْمُتَّقِي، وَإِنْ كَانَ فِي الدُّنْيَا خَسِيسًا، قَصِيًّا، دَنِيًّا.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith b. Abū Usāmah
- Dāwud b. al-Muḥabbar
- Maysarah
- Muḥammad b. Zayd
- Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib
✧ Umar, Abu Hurayrah, and Ubayy b. Ka'b entered upon the Messenger of God ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of God, who is the most knowledgeable of people?' He ﷺ said: 'The intelligent one.' They said: 'Then who is the most devoted worshipper among people?' He ﷺ said: 'The intelligent one.' They said: 'Then who is the most virtuous of people?' He said: 'The intelligent one.' They said: 'O Messenger of God, is not the intelligent one the one whose manliness is complete, whose eloquence is evident, and whose status is great?' He said: 'Indeed all of that is but the enjoyment of the worldly life (the verse), but the intelligent one is the one who is God-fearing, even if in this world he is lowly, remote, and humble.'
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AHسَعِيد بْن الْمُسَيِّبأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبارعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 AH and 140 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زَيْدٍثقةعن
- d. between 171 and 180 AH, or: between 191 and 200 AHمَيْسَرَةُحدثنا
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 206 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in: «the section on those who died from 90 to 200»دَاوُدُ بْنُ الْمُحَبَّرِمتروكحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ بْنُ أَبِي أُسَامَةَ
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