al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3613

Translation

✧ O Ibn Mas'ud, do you know which of the bonds of faith is firmest? I said: 'At your service, O Messenger of Allah, Allah and His Messenger know best.' He said this to me three times. He ﷺ said: 'Indeed, the firmest bond of faith is love for the sake of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and hatred for the sake of Allah, Exalted.' Then he ﷺ said to me: 'O Ibn Mas'ud.' I said: 'At your service, O Messenger of Allah.' He ﷺ said: 'Do you know which of the people is most virtuous?' I said: 'Allah and His Messenger know best,' until he said it three times. He ﷺ said: 'Indeed, the most virtuous of them in knowledge is the one who has understanding in their religion.' Then he ﷺ said: 'O Ibn Mas'ud.' I said: 'At your service, O Messenger of Allah.' He ﷺ said: 'Do you know which of the people is most knowledgeable?' until he said it three times. I said: 'Allah and His Messenger know best.' He ﷺ said: 'The most knowledgeable of them is the one who sees the truth most clearly when people differ, even if he is deficient in deeds, and even if he crawls on his backside.'

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  هذا خطأ إنما هو الصعق بن حزن عن عقيل الجعدي عن أبي إسحاق وليس لحرب معنى ونفس الحديث منكر لا يشبه حديث أبي إسحاق ويشبه أن يكون عقيل هذا أعرابي والصعق فلا بأس به

  machine translationThis is a mistake; it is only al-Ṣaʿq b. Ḥazn, from ʿAqīl al-Jaʿdī, from Abū Isḥāq, and Ḥarb has no place in it. The hadith itself is rejected (munkar) and does not resemble the hadith of Abū Isḥāq. It seems that this ʿAqīl was a Bedouin, and as for al-Ṣaʿq, there is no harm in him. Report a problem

  in المطالب العالية, p. 3613

Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10386al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11569al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21131Musnad al-Tayalisi 376al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3438al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3440

Narrators

1. 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
   عن
2. 2
   Suwayd b. Ghafalah al-Madhḥijī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 76 AH, or: 80 AH, 81 AH, 82 AH
   سُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ السَّبِيعِيِّثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   ʿUqayl al-Jaʿdī
   عَقِيلٌ الْجَعْدِيُّ
   حدثني
5. 5
   al-Ṣaʿq b. Ḥazn

   truthful (ṣadūq), has lapses (wahm). And he was an asceticd. between 161 and 170 AH
   الصَّعْقُ بْنُ حَزْنٍ الْبَكْرِيُّصدوق يهم . وكان زاهدا
   حدثني
6. 6
   Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb

   and he is truthful (ṣadūq), errs in the hadith of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH, also said: 204 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِوهو صدوق ، يخطئ في حديث الثوري
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف

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