al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3604
✧ The Greatness of Allah and His Attributes
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أَخْبَرَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، حَدَّثَنِي بَحِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ:
إِنَّ نَفَرًا مِنَ الْيَهُودِ أَتَوُا النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالُوا: نَسْأَلُكَ عَنْ ثَلَاثَةِ أَشْيَاءَ لَا يَعْلَمُهَا إِلَّا نَبِيٌّ: أَخْبِرْنَا عَنْ حَمَلَةِ الْعَرْشِ مَنْ هُمْ ؟ وَعَنْ مَنِيِّ الرَّجُلِ وَمَنِيِّ الْمَرْأَةِ ؟ فَقَالَ ﷺ: أَمَّا حَمَلَةُ الْعَرْشِ فَإِنَّ الْهَوَامَّ تَحْمِلُهُ بِقُرُونِهَا، وَالْبَحْرَةُ الَّتِي فِي الشَّمْسِ مِنْ عَرَقِهِمْ، وَمَنِيُّ الرَّجُلِ أَبْيَضُ غَلِيظٌ، وَمَنِيُّ الْمَرْأَةِ أَصْفَرُ رَقِيقٌ، وَذَكَرَ الثَّالِثَةَ، فَقَالُوا: نَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ نَبِيٌّ، هَكَذَا نَجِدُهُ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd
- Baḥīr b. Saʿd
- Khālid b. Maʿdān
- ʿĀʾishah
✧ A group of Jews came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: “We ask you about three things that no one knows except a prophet: tell us about the bearers of the Throne—who are they? And about the semen of a man and the semen of a woman?” He ﷺ said: “As for the bearers of the Throne, vermin carry it with their horns, and the spot in the sun is from their sweat. The semen of a man is white and thick, and the semen of a woman is yellow and thin.” And he mentioned the third, so they said: “We bear witness that you are a prophet. This is how we find it in the Torah.”
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 7161Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20961Musnad Abi Ya'la 3857
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- 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 سَعْدٍثقة 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 AHإسحاق ابن راهويهثقة حافظ مجتهد
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