al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4125
✧ The Souls
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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ ؓ:
« الْأَرْوَاحُ جُنُودٌ مُجَنَّدَةٌ فَمَا تَعَارَفَ مِنْهَا ائْتَلَفَ، وَمَا تَنَاكَرَ مِنْهَا اخْتَلَفَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- Shuʿbah
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿAmr b. Murrah
- ʿAbdullāh
✧ "Souls are mobilized troops: those that knew each other become intimate, and those that did not know each other differ."
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
موقوف صحيح
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) as a statement of a Companion (mawqūf)
in المطالب العالية, p. 4125
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2638aSunan Abi Dawud 4834Musnad Ahmad 10824Sahih Ibn Hibban 6168Musnad al-Bazzar 10356al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8199
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah), devout; he did not practice concealment (tadlīs), and he was accused of Irjāʾd. 118 AH, also said: before itعَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة عابد كان لا يدلس ورمي بالإرجاءعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبُو إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقنعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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