al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3309
✧ Reason and its virtue
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حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ، ثَنَا مَيْسَرَةُ، عَنْ حَنْظَلَةَ بْنِ وَدَاعَةَ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ ؓ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:
جَدَّ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَاجْتَهَدُوا فِي طَاعَةِ اللهِ بِالْعَقْلِ، وَجَدَّ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَاجْتَهَدُوا فِي طَاعَةِ اللهِ عَلَى قَدْرِ عُقُولِهِمْ، فَأَعْلَمُهُمْ بِطَاعَةِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَوْفَرُهُمْ عَقْلًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Dāwud
- Maysarah
- Ḥanẓalah b. and Dāʿah
- al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The angels strove and exerted themselves in obedience to God by intellect, and the believers strove and exerted themselves in obedience to God according to the measure of their intellects. So the most knowledgeable of them in obedience to God, Mighty and Majestic, is the most abundant of them in intellect.
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AHالْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابيعن
- حنظلة بن وداعةعن
- 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»دَاوُدُمتروكحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالحارث بن محمد بن أبي أسامة
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