al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4132
✧ Adam and the Number of the Prophets, peace be upon them
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو حَيْوَةَ الْحِمْصِيُّ شُرَيْحٌ، ثَنَا مُعَانُ بْنُ رِفَاعَةَ السَّلَامِيُّ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَهُوَ مَوْلَى يَزِيدَ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ الشَّامِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ ؓ قَالَ:
إِنَّ أَبَا ذَرٍّ ؓ سَأَلَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَمِ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « مِائَةُ أَلْفٍ، وَأَرْبَعَةٌ وَعِشْرُونَ أَلْفًا » فَقَالَ: كَمِ الْمُرْسَلُونَ مِنْهُمْ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « ثَلَاثُمِائَةٍ وَخَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ جَمًّا غَفِيرًا
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Ḥaywah al-Ḥimṣī Shurayḥ
- Muʿān b. Rifāʿah al-Salāmī
- ʿAlī b. Yazīd
- al-Qāsim Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman / a freed slave of Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah al-Shāmī
- Abū Umāmah
✧ Abu Dharr ؓ asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: "How many prophets are there?" He ﷺ said: "One hundred twenty-four thousand." He said: "How many messengers among them?" He ﷺ said: "Three hundred fifteen, a great multitude."
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