al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4073
✧ The Virtue of Remembrance
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وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الرَّازِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُوسَى بْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ الرَّبَذِيَّ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ الْقَرَّاظِ، عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ ؓ قَالَ:
بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ نَسِيرُ بِالدُّفِّ مِنْ جُمْدَانَ إِذِ اسْتَرَّ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: « يَا مُعَاذُ، أَيْنَ السَّابِقُونَ ؟ » فَقُلْتُ: قَدْ مَضَى نَاسٌ وَتَخَلَّفَ نَاسٌ. فَقَالَ ﷺ: أَيْنَ السَّابِقُونَ الَّذِينَ يَسْتَهْتِرُونَ بِذِكْرِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، مَنْ أَحَبَّ أَنْ يَرْتَعَ فِي رِيَاضِ الْجَنَّةِ فَلْيُكْثِرْ مِنْ ذِكْرِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Isḥāq b. Sulaymān al-Rāzī
- Mūsá b. ʿUbaydah al-Rabadhī Yuḥaddith
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Qarrāẓ
- Muʿādh b. Jabal
✧ While we were with the Messenger of God ﷺ traveling in a group from Jumdān, the Messenger of God ﷺ stopped and said: “O Muʿādh, where are the foremost?” I said: “Some have gone ahead and some have stayed behind.” He ﷺ said: “Where are the foremost who are devoted to the remembrance of God, Mighty and Majestic? Whoever would love to graze in the meadows of Paradise, let him increase in the remembrance of God, Mighty and Majestic.”
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
وفيه موسى بن عبيدة وهو ضعيف قال ابن الأثير يقال هتر بالشيء واستهتر به إذا ولع به ولم يتحدث بغيره
machine translationIn it is Mūsā b. ʿUbaydah, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf). Ibn al-Athīr said: It is said "hutira bi-l-shayʾ" and "istuhtira bihi" when he is infatuated with it and speaks of nothing else.
in المطالب العالية, p. 4073
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18504Musnad al-Bazzar 9314Musnad Abi Ya'la 2141al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4063al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4067al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4070
Narrators
- well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AHمُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), narrates mursald. between 101 AH and 110 AHأَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ الْقَرَّاظِثقة ، يرسليحدث عن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf), especially in his narration from ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār; and he was devout (ʿābid).d. 152 AH, or 153 AHمُوسَى بْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ الرَّبَذِيَّضعيف ، ولا سيما في عبد الله بن دينار ، وكان عابداسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 199 AH, or 200 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ الرَّازِيُّثقة فاضلأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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