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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

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq
  2. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. ʿAmr b. Murrah
  5. Abū ʿUbaydah b. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
  6. 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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  1. 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 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 81 AH, also said: 82 AH, and al-Dhahabī was certain of it
    أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقة
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), devout; he did not practice concealment (tadlīs), and he was accused of Irjāʾd. 118 AH, also said: before it
    عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة عابد كان لا يدلس ورمي بالإرجاء
    عن
  4. 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 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  5. 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 AH
    أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
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  6. trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
    إِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد

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