al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4196
✧ The Virtue of the Reciters
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا الْخَلِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا، ثَنَا مُجَالِدٌ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ ؓ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
« إِنَّ لِلهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى أَهْلِينَ مِنَ النَّاسِ ». قَالُوا: مَنْ هُمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: « هُمْ أَهْلُ الْقُرْآنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- al-Khalīl b. Zakariyyā
- Mujālid
- al-Shaʿbī
- al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ “Indeed, Allah, Blessed and Exalted, has people who are His own among mankind.” They said: “Who are they, O Messenger of Allah?” He ﷺ said: “They are the people of the Qur’an.”
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 215Musnad Ahmad 12279Musnad Ahmad 13542Sunan ad-Darimi 3369al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2046
Narrators
- He and his parents had companionship with the Prophet (ṣuḥbah)d. 60 AH, or: 64 AH, or: 65 AH, or: 66 AHالنُّعْمَان بْن بَشِير الْأَنْصَارِيّله ولأبويه صحبةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmīالشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضلعن
- Not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), and he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life.d. 144 AH, also said: 143 AHمُجَالِدٌليس بالقوي ، وقد تغير في آخر عمرهحدثنا
- abandoned (matrūk)d. between 201 AH and 211 AHالْخَلِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّامتروكحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
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