al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3386
✧ The Nature of the Heart of the Son of Adam
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، حَدَّثَنِي بَحِيرُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ ؓ قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
قَلْبُ ابْنِ آدَمَ مِثْلُ الْعُصْفُورِ، يَتَقَلَّبُ فِي الْيَوْمِ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd
- Baḥīr b. Saʿīd
- Khālid b. Maʿdān
- Abū ʿUbaydah
- In Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The heart of the son of Adam is like a sparrow, it flips over seven times in a day.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسناده حسن لكنه منقطع
in المطالب العالية, p. 3386
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35767al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7850al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7935
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 17 AH, or: 18 AHأَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ابْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ أَمِينُ الْأُمَّةِصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), who often narrated with omission of the Companion or intermediary (yursilu kathīran).d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, also said: 106 AH, or: 108 AHخَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَثقة عابد ، يرسل كثيرا.عن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 141 and 150 AHبَحِيرُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبتحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AHبَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاءأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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