al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3605
✧ The Greatness of Allah and His Attributes
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ عُبَيْدٍ الْمُكْتِبِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ، أَوِ ابْنُ عُمَرَ ؓ - الشَّكُّ مِنْ عُبَيْدٍ - قَالَ:
إِنَّ اللهَ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى احْتَجَبَ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ بِأَرْبَعٍ: بِنُورٍ، ثُمَّ ظُلْمَةٍ، ثُمَّ بِنَارٍ، ثُمَّ ظُلْمَةٍ، أَوْ بِنَارٍ، ثُمَّ ظُلْمَةٍ، ثُمَّ نُورٍ، ثُمَّ ظُلْمَةٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Jarīr
- ʿUbayd al-Muktib
- Mujāhid
- Ibn ʿAbbās Aw Ibn ʿUmar al-Shak Min ʿUbayd
✧ Allah, Blessed and Exalted, veiled Himself from His creation with four things: with light, then darkness, then fire, then darkness—or with fire, then darkness, then light, then darkness.
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Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 AH and 140 AHعُبَيْدٍ الْمُكْتِبِثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.