al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3808
✧ Encouragement to Ease in Worldly Matters
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ، ثَنَا حَفْصٌ، عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
« الدُّنْيَا سِجْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ، وَجَنَّةُ الْكَافِرِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- al-Haytham
- Ḥafṣ
- al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The world is the believer's prison and the disbeliever's paradise.
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- Dāraquṭnī
ورواه الحماني عن سليمان بن بلال عن سهيل بن أبي صالح عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة ووهم فيه وإنما رواه سليمان بن بلال عن العلاء عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة مرفوعا إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم حدث به حفص بن ميسرة ومالك بن أنس وزهير بن محمد وغيرهم عن العلاء عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة
machine translationAl-Ḥimmānī narrated it from Sulaymān b. Bilāl, from Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, but he erred in it. Rather, Sulaymān b. Bilāl narrated it from al-ʿAlāʾ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, raised to the Prophet ﷺ. Ḥafṣ b. Maysarah, Mālik b. Anas, Zuhayr b. Muḥammad and others narrated it from al-ʿAlāʾ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah.
in المطالب العالية, p. 3808
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 4113Musnad Ahmad 10288al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6198Musnad al-Bazzar 2505Musnad al-Bazzar 8303Musnad Abi Ya'la 6469
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AHالْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ربما وهمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), though he sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 181 AHحَفْصٌثقة ، ربما وهمحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 227 AH, or: 228 AHالْهَيْثَمُصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.