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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3357

✧ The Parable of the Righteous Companion

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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا الْمَخْزُومِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ:

مَثَلُ الْجَلِيسِ الصَّالِحِ كَمَثَلِ صَاحِبِ الْمِسْكِ، إِنْ لَمْ يُعْطِكَ أَصَابَكَ مِنْ رِيحِهِ، ( وَمَثَلُ الْجَلِيسِ السُّوءِ، كَمَثَلِ صَاحِبِ الْكِيرِ إِنْ لَمْ يُحْرِقْ ثِيَابَكَ أَصَابَكَ مِنْ رِيحِهِ أَوْ أَنْتَنَكَ رِيحُهُ )

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq
  2. al-Makhzūmī
  3. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād
  4. al-Aʿmash
  5. Khaythamah
  6. Ibn Masʿūd

✧ The parable of the righteous companion is like the parable of the owner of musk; if he does not give you some, some of its fragrance will reach you. And the parable of the evil companion is like the parable of the owner of the bellows; if he does not burn your clothes, some of its smell will reach you, or its odor will offend you.

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4829Musnad Ahmad 19660Sahih Ibn Hibban 579Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35966Musnad al-Bazzar 3187

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
    One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
    قال
  2. Khaythamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Juʿfī
    trustworthy (thiqah), and he used to narrate mursal reportsd. after 80 AH, before Abū Wāʾil, Ibn Qāniʿ dated it to the year 80 AH, also said: 85 AH
    خَيْثَمَةَثقة ، وكان يرسل
    عن
  3. al-Aʿmash
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    حدثنا
  4. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād
    Trustworthy (thiqah); there is some criticism concerning his narrations from al-Aʿmash aloned. 176 AH, or 177 AH, or 179 AH
    عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍثقة ، في حديثه عن الأعمش وحده مقال
    حدثنا
  5. Abū Hishām al-Makhzūmī
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 200 AH
    الْمَخْزُومِيُّثقة ثبت
    أخبرنا
  6. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
    trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
    إِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد

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