al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3723
✧ Remembering death and shortening hopes
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وَقَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
« قَالَ لِي جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ، عِشْ مَا شِئْتَ فَإِنَّكَ مَيِّتٌ، وَأَحْبِبْ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ فَإِنَّكَ مُفَارِقُهُ، وَاعْمَلْ مَا شِئْتَ فَإِنَّكَ لَاقِيهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Dāwud
- al-Ḥasan b. Abū Jaʿfar
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "Jibril ﷺ said to me: 'O Muhammad, live as long as you wish, for you will die; love whom you wish, for you will part from him; and do what you wish, for you will meet it.'"
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4284al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4851al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 705al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7921
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf) in hadith despite his worship and meritd. 159 AH, or 161 AH, or 167 AH, or 169 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍضعيف الحديث مع عبادته وفضلهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
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