al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4147
✧ Reports of Musa and Harun, peace be upon them
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ ؓ قَالَ:
لَمَّا بَعَثَ اللهُ تَعَالَى مُوسَى عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ قَالَ: أَيَّ شَيْءٍ أَقُولُ ؟ قَالَ: قُلْ: أَهْيَا شَرْ أَهْيَا قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ: فَفَسَّرُوهُ: « الْحَيُّ قَبْلَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، وَالْحَيُّ بَعْدَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- al-Aʿmash
- ʿAmr b. Murrah
- Abū ʿUbaydah b. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
- ʿAbdullāh
✧ When Allah, Exalted is He, sent Musa ﷺ to Pharaoh, he said: 'What shall I say?' He said: 'Say: Ahyah Shar Ahyah.' Al-A'mash said: They interpreted it as: 'The Living before everything, and the Living after everything.'
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- 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 جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 81 AH, also said: 82 AH, and al-Dhahabī was certain of itأَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقةعن
- 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 retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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