al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3626
✧ Prohibition of Writing Other Than the Quran
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا عَطَاءُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الْحَلَبِيُّ، قَالَ:
قُلْتُ لِعَمْرِو بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْمُلَائِيِّ: اكْتُبْ لِي هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ، فَقَالَ: لَا، إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ النَّخَعِيَّ قَالَ: لَا تَكْتُبُوا فَتَتَّكِلُوا، ثُمَّ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ: قَالَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ ؓ: خَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَنَحْنُ نَكْتُبُ شَيْئًا مِنَ الْحَدِيثِ، فَقَالَ: مَا هَذَا يَا مُعَاذُ ؟ قُلْنَا: سَمِعْنَاهُ مِنْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ ﷺ: يَكْفِيكُمْ هَذَا الْقُرْآنُ مِمَّا سِوَاهُ فَمَا كَتَبْنَا شَيْئًا بَعْدُ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- ʿAṭāʾ b. Muslim al-Ḥalabī
✧ I said to 'Amr b. Qays al-Mula'i: "Write this hadith for me." He said: "No, for Ibrahim al-Nakha'i said: 'Do not write, lest you rely on it.' Then Ibrahim said: 'Mu'adh b. Jabal ؓ said: The Messenger of God ﷺ came out to us while we were writing some hadith, and he said: "What is this, O Mu'adh?" We said: "We heard it from you, O Messenger of God." He ﷺ said: "This Quran suffices you from anything else." So we did not write anything after that.'"
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
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in المطالب العالية, p. 3626
Narrators
- well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AHمُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابةقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AHإبراهيم النخعيثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيراقال
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout worshipperd. 146 AHعمرو بن قيس الملائيثقة متقن عابدقلت
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakesd. 190 AHعَطَاءُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الْحَلَبِيُّصدوق يخطئ كثيراأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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