al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4063
✧ The Virtue of Remembrance
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وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرٌ، ثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ، مَوْلَى غُفْرَةَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَيُّوبَ بْنَ خَالِدِ بْنِ صَفْوَانَ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ، يَقُولُ: قَالَ جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ:
خَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: « يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، إِنَّ لِلهِ تَعَالَى سَرَايَا مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ تَحِلُّ، فَتَقِفُ عَلَى مَجَالِسِ الذِّكْرِ فِي الْأَرْضِ، فَارْتَعُوا فِي رِيَاضِ الْجَنَّةِ ». قَالُوا: وَأَيْنَ رِيَاضُ الْجَنَّةِ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « مَجَالِسُ الذِّكْرِ، فَاغْدُوا وَرُوحُوا فِي ذِكْرِ اللهِ تَعَالَى، وَذَكِّرُوهُ بِأَنْفُسِكُمْ، مَنْ كَانَ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَعْلَمَ مَنْزِلَتَهُ عِنْدَ اللهِ تَعَالَى فَلْيَنْظُرْ كَيْفَ مَنْزِلَةُ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عِنْدَهُ، فَإِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى يُنْزِلُ الْعَبْدَ مَنْزِلَتَهُ حَيْثُ أَنْزَلَهُ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ
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Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Bishr
- ʿUmar b. ʿAbdullāh a freed slave of Ghufrah
- Ayyūb b. Khālid b. Ṣafwān al-Anṣārī
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ came out to us and said: “O people, God Almighty has detachments of angels that alight and stand over the gatherings of remembrance on earth, so graze in the meadows of Paradise.” They said: “Where are the meadows of Paradise, O Messenger of God?” He ﷺ said: “The gatherings of remembrance. So go forth in the morning and evening in the remembrance of God Almighty, and remind yourselves of Him. Whoever would love to know his station with God Almighty, let him look at how the station of God, Mighty and Majestic, is with him. For God Almighty places the servant in the station that he assigns to Him from his own self.”
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18504al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2504Musnad al-Bazzar 9314Musnad Abi Ya'la 2141al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4067al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4070
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 الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيفي حكم العنعنة
- He has some leniency (layyin)d. between 91 and 100 AHأَيُّوبَ بْنَ خَالِدِ بْنِ صَفْوَانَ الْأَنْصَارِيَّفيه لينسمعت
- Weak (ḍaʿīf), and he often narrated in mursal form (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 145 AH, or 146 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ ، مَوْلَى غُفْرَةَضعيف ، وكان كثير الإرسالحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 186 AH, or 187 AHبِشْرٌثقة ، ثبت ، عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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