al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3722
✧ Remembering death and shortening hopes
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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ غَيْلَانَ بْنِ بِشْرٍ، عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ ؓ قَالَ:
قِيلَ لَهُ: مَا تُحِبُّ لِمَنْ تُحِبُّ ؟ قَالَ: الْمَوْتَ، قَالَ: فَإِنْ لَمْ يَمُتْ ؟ قَالَ: يَقِلُّ مَالُهُ وَوَلَدُهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- al-Aʿmash
- Ghaylān b. Bishr
- Yaʿlá b. al-Walīd
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
✧ He was asked: What do you wish for the one you love? He said: Death. He was asked: And if he does not die? He said: That his wealth and children become few.
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Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35744Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35959Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38393
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلعن
- يَعْلَى بْنِ الْوَلِيدِعن
- غَيْلَانَ بْنِ بِشْرٍعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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