al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3867
✧ Silence
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْمِقْدَامِ أَبُو الْأَشْعَثِ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ، ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ ؓ، يَقُولُ:
« الصَّمْتُ حُكْمٌ، وَقَلِيلٌ فَاعِلُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Aḥmad b. al-Miqdām Abū al-Ashʿath
- Muḥammad b. Bakr
- ʿUthmān b. Saʿd
- Anas b. Mālik
✧ “Silence is wisdom, but few practice it.”
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- ابن عدي
ولعثمان بن سعد غير ما ذكرت من الحديث ومنها هذا وهو حسن الحديث ومع ضعفه يكتب حديثه
machine translationʿUthmān b. Saʿd has other hadiths besides those I mentioned, including this one. He is good in hadith (ḥasan al-ḥadīth), and despite his weakness his hadith is written down.
in المطالب العالية, p. 3867
Other narrations of this report
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- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورسمعت
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 151 AH and 160 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعْدٍضعيفحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), may errd. 204 AH, also said 203 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍصدوق قد يخطئحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. Abū Bakr and others said: 253 AH. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 251 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْمِقْدَامِ أَبُو الْأَشْعَثِصدوق , صاحب حديثحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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