al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3627
✧ Prohibition of Writing Other Than the Quran
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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ يَحْيَى، عَنْ أَبِي بُرْدَةَ، قَالَ:
كَتَبْتُ عَنْ أَبِي كِتَابًا، فَقَالَ أَبِي: لَوْلَا أَنَّ فِيهِ آيَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ اللهِ تَعَالَى لَأَحْرَقْتُهُ، ثُمَّ دَعَا بِمِرْكَنٍ أَوْ إِجَّانَةِ نَفْسُهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: عَنِّي عَنِّي، مَا سَمِعْتَ مِنِّي فَإِنِّي لَمْ أَكْتُبْ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ كِتَابًا، فَقَالَ: كِدْتَ أَنْ تُهْلِكَ أَبَاكَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Wakīʿ
- Ṭalḥah b. Yaḥyá
- Abū Burdah
✧ I wrote a book from my father, and my father said: "Were it not that it contains a verse from the Book of God Almighty, I would have burned it." Then he called for a washing tub or a large vessel himself, then said: "Away from me, away from me. Whatever you heard from me, I did not write down any book from the Messenger of God ﷺ." He said: "You nearly destroyed your father."
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Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورفقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AHأَبِي بُرْدَةَثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or: 148 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbānطَلْحَةَ بْنِ يَحْيَىصدوق يخطئعن
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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