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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3492

✧ The Virtue of One Who Believes in the Unseen

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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ قَالَ:

كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: أَتَدْرُونَ أَيُّ أَهْلِ الْإِيمَانِ أَفْضَلُ إِيمَانًا ؟، قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، الْمَلَائِكَةُ، قَالَ ﷺ: هُمْ كَذَلِكَ، وَحُقَّ ذَلِكَ لَهُمْ، وَمَا يَمْنَعُهُمْ، وَقَدْ أَنْزَلَهُمُ اللهُ تَعَالَى الْمَنْزِلَةَ الَّتِي أَنْزَلَهُمْ، بَلْ غَيْرُهُمْ، فَقُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ، قَالَ ﷺ: هُمْ كَذَلِكَ، وَحُقَّ لَهُمْ ذَلِكَ، بَلْ غَيْرُهُمْ، قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَنْ هُمْ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: قَوْمٌ يَأْتُونَ مِنْ بَعْدِي هُمْ فِي أَصْلَابِ الرِّجَالِ، فَيُؤْمِنُونَ بِي، وَلَمْ يَرَوْنِي، وَيَجِدُونَ الْوَرَقَ الْمُعَلَّقَ، فَيَعْمَلُونَ بِمَا فِيهِ، فَهَؤُلَاءِ أَفْضَلُ أَهْلِ الْإِيمَانِ إِيمَانًا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq
  2. Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿAmr
  3. Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥumayd
  4. Zayd b. Aslam
  5. his father
  6. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

✧ I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said: 'Do you know which of the people of faith is best in faith?' They said: 'O Messenger of Allah, the angels.' He ﷺ said: 'They are so, and that is rightfully theirs, and what prevents them, for Allah the Exalted has placed them in the station He placed them. But others.' We said: 'O Messenger of Allah, the prophets.' He ﷺ said: 'They are so, and that is rightfully theirs, but others.' We said: 'O Messenger of Allah, who are they?' He ﷺ said: 'A people who come after me, while they are in the loins of men. They believe in me though they have not seen me, and they find the hanging page and act according to what is in it. These are the best of the people of faith in faith.'

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  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

    وروي هذا من حديث عمر وهو أصح

    machine translationThis was narrated from the hadith of ʿUmar, and it is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ).

    in المطالب العالية, p. 3492
  • Bazzār

    وحديث المنهال بن بحر عن هشام الدستوائي عن يحيى بن أبي كثير عن زيد بن أسلم عن أبيه عن عمر إنما يرويه الحفاظ الثقات عن هشام عن يحيى عن زيد بن أسلم عن عمر مرسلا وإنما يعرف هذا الحديث من حديث محمد بن أبي حميد ومحمد رجل من أهل المدينة ليس بقوي قد حدث عنه جماعة ثقات واحتملوا حديثه حدث بهذا الحديث عن زيد بن أسلم عن أبيه عن عمر عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وحدث أيضا بآخر لم يتابع عليه

    machine translationAs for the hadith of al-Minhāl b. Baḥr, from Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī, from Yaḥyā b. Abī Kathīr, from Zayd b. Aslam, from his father, from ʿUmar: it is only narrated by the trustworthy memorizers (ḥuffāẓ) from Hishām, from Yaḥyā, from Zayd b. Aslam, from ʿUmar, as a mursal report. This hadith is only known from the hadith of Muḥammad b. Abī Ḥumayd, and Muḥammad is a man from the people of Madinah who is not strong (laysa bi-qawī). A group of trustworthy narrators narrated from him and tolerated his hadith. He narrated this hadith from Zayd b. Aslam, from his father, from ʿUmar, from the Prophet ﷺ, and he also narrated another hadith in which he was not corroborated.

    in المطالب العالية, p. 3492

Other narrations of this report

Musnad al-Bazzar 323Musnad al-Bazzar 324Musnad Abi Ya'la 159al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6993al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3493al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3494

Narrators

  1. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
    عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
    عن
  2. Aslam al-ʿAdawī mawlá ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    trustworthy (thiqah), mukhaḍram (lived through both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras)d. 80 AH, also said: after 60 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة مخضرم
    عن
  3. Zayd b. Aslam
    trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AH
    زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسل
    عن
  4. Muḥammad b. Abī Ḥumayd
    weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 151 and 160 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍضعيف
    حدثنا
  5. Abū ʿĀmir
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 204 AH or 205 AH
    أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ عَمْرٍوثقة
    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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