al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3726
✧ Remembering death and shortening hopes
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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَعْلَى، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ هُوَ الْأَعْرَجُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
« عَجَبًا لِغَافِلٍ وَلَا يُغْفَلُ عَنْهُ، وَعَجَبًا لِطَالِبِ دُنْيَا وَالْمَوْتُ يَطْلُبُهُ، وَعَجَبًا لِضَاحِكٍ مِلْءَ فِيهِ وَلَا يَدْرِي أَرْضَى اللهَ أَمْ أَسْخَطَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Yaḥyá b. Yaʿlá
- Ḥumayd
- al-Aʿraj
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥārith
- Ibn Masʿūd
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ "How amazing is the heedless one from whom heedlessness is never lifted, and how amazing is the seeker of this world while death seeks him, and how amazing is the one who laughs with his mouth wide open while he does not know whether he has pleased Allah or angered Him."
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- ابن عدي
ليست بمستقيمة ولا يتابع عليها
machine translationThey are not sound, and they are not corroborated.
in المطالب العالية, p. 3726
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِثقةعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf).d. 150 AHحُمَيْدٍ هُوَ الْأَعْرَجُضعيف.عن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), Shiʿite (shīʿī)d. between 181 and 190 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ يَعْلَىضعيف ، شيعيحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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