al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3854
✧ Rebuke of Increasing in Worldly Matters
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ، ثَنَا حَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى، ثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، حَدَّثَنِي حُيَيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ ؓ، قَالَ:
جَاءَ حَمْزَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ ؓ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، اجْعَلْنِي عَلَى شَيْءٍ أَعِيشُ بِهِ. فَقَالَ ﷺ: « يَا حَمْزَةُ، أَنَفْسٌ تُحْيِيهَا أَحَبُّ إِلَيْكَ أَمْ نَفْسٌ تُمِيتُهَا ؟ » قَالَ ؓ: نَفْسٌ أُحْيِيهَا. قَالَ ﷺ: « عَلَيْكَ نَفْسَكَ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Abū Khaythamah
- Ḥasan b. Mūsá
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- Ḥuyay b. ʿAbdullāh
- Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
✧ Ḥamzah b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ؓ came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: "O Messenger of Allah, appoint me over something by which I may live." He ﷺ said: "O Ḥamzah, is a soul you keep alive dearer to you, or a soul you put to death?" He ؓ said: "A soul I keep alive." He ﷺ said: "Then take care of your own soul."
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- One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاءعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 100 AHأَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), has lapses (wahm).d. 143 AH, or 148 AH.حُيَيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِصدوق يهم.حدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AHابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهماحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, or: 209, or: 210 AHحَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHأَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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