al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4160
✧ What Occurred Among the Children of Israel
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أَخْبَرَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ قَالَ:
كَانَ رَجُلٌ مِمَّنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ فِي قَوْمٍ كُفَّارٍ، وَفِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ قَوْمٌ صَالِحُونَ، فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ: طَالَمَا كُنْتُ فِي كُفْرِي فَلَآتِيَنَّ هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ الصَّالِحَةَ فَأَكُونُ رَجُلًا مِنْهُمْ، فَخَرَجَ فَأَدْرَكَهُ أَجْلُهُ فِي الطَّرِيقِ، فَاخْتَصَمَ الْمَلَكُ وَالشَّيْطَانُ فَقَالَ هَذَا: أَنَا أَحَقُّ، وَقَالَ هَذَا: أَنَا أَحَقُّ، فَقَيَّضَ اللهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى لَهُمَا بَعْضَ جُنُودِهِ، فَقَالَ: قِيسُوا مَا بَيْنَ الْقَرْيَتَيْنِ فَإِلَى أَيَّتِهِمَا كَانَ أَقْرَبَ هُوَ مِنْهَا، فَقَاسُوا بَيْنَهُمَا، فَوَجَدُوهُ إِلَى الْقَرْيَةِ الصَّالِحَةِ أَقْرَبَ، فَكَانَ مِنْهُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Jarīr
- Ismāʿīl b. Abū Khālid
- Qays b. Abū Ḥāzim
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
✧ There was a man from among those before you among disbelieving people, and among them were righteous people. The man said, 'As long as I have been in my disbelief, I will surely go to this righteous village and become a man from among them.' So he set out, but his appointed time overtook him on the way. The angel and the devil disputed over him; this one said, 'I have more right to him,' and that one said, 'I have more right to him.' So Allah, Blessed and Exalted, sent one of His soldiers to them and said, 'Measure the distance between the two villages; to whichever of them he was closer, he belongs to it.' So they measured between the two villages and found him closer to the righteous village, so he was from among them.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا إسناد صحيح له شاهد في الصحيح
machine translationThis chain of narration is sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and it has a supporting report (shāhid) in the Ṣaḥīḥ.
in المطالب العالية, p. 4160
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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 جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 84 AH, or: 86 AH, or: 97 AH, or: 98 AHقَيْسِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍثقةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 136 AH, or 145 AH, or 146 AH, or 148 AHإِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإسحاق ابن راهويهثقة حافظ مجتهد
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