al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4131
✧ Adam and the Number of the Prophets, peace be upon them
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وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ، أَنَا حَمَّادٌ هُوَ ابْنُ سَلَمَةَ، أَنَا مَعْبَدٌ، أَخْبَرَنِي فُلَانٌ فِي مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ، عَنْ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ قَالَ: إِنَّ أَبَا ذَرٍّ ؓ، جَلَسَ إِلَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، فَذَكَرَ مِثْلَ حَدِيثٍ قَبْلَهُ فِيهِ:
قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَأَيُّ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ كَانَ أَوَّلَ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « آدَمُ » فَقُلْتُ: أَوَنَبِيًّا كَانَ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « نَعَمْ، نَبِيٌّ مُكَلَّمٌ ». قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَكَمِ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « ثَلَاثُمِائَةٍ وَخَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ جَمًّا غَفِيرًا
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- al-Naḍr b. Shumayl
- Ḥammād
- Ibn Salamah
- Maʿbad
- Fulān Fī Masjid Dimashq
- ʿAwf b. Mālik
- In Abū Dhar Jalas
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ Fadhakar Mithl Ḥadīth Qablah Fīh
✧ I said: "O Messenger of Allah, which of the prophets was first?" He ﷺ said: "Adam." I said: "Was he a prophet?" He ﷺ said: "Yes, a prophet spoken to." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, how many prophets are there?" He ﷺ said: "Three hundred fifteen, a great multitude."
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 4003Musnad Ahmad 21552al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1000Musnad al-Tayalisi 480al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3115
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيفي حكم العنعنة
- A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), from those who accepted Islam at the Conquest of Mecca.d. 73 AHعَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور من مسلمة الفتحعن
- فلانأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 and 140 AHمَعْبَدٌثقةأنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادٌ هُوَ ابْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهأنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 203 AH, or: 204 AH, also said: 202 AHالنَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍثقة ثبتأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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