al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3342
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
أَحَبُّ الْأَسْمَاءِ إِلَى اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: عَبْدُ اللهِ، وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Ibn Numayr
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- Ismāʿīl b. Muslim
- al-Ḥasan
- Anas
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The most beloved names to God, Mighty and Majestic, are 'Abdullah and 'Abd al-Rahman.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3565Musnad Ahmad 17607al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20247al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20442al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 4394
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- he was a jurist, weak in hadith (ḍaʿīf al-ḥadīth)إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍكان فقيها ، ضعيف الحديثعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 234 AHابْنُ نُمَيْرٍثقة حافظ فاضلحدثنا
- 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.