al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4199
✧ The Virtue of the Reciters
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4199 3491 / 2 - وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ، ثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، ثَنَا أَبِي، عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ، بِهِ.
« مَا غَنِمَ فُلَان أَفْضَل مِمَّا غَنِمَتْ تَعَلُّم خَمْسِ آيَاتٍ »
The text that “the like of it” refers to · matalib:4198
إِنْ رَجُلًا أَصَابَ مِنْ مَغْنَم خَمْسَة وَعِشْرِينَ أُوقِيَّةً مِنْ ذَهَب فَأَتَى النَّبِيّ ﷺ لِيَدْعُوَ لَهُ فَأُعْرِضُ عَنْهُ ثُمَّ عَادَ فَأُعْرِضُ عَنْهُ ثُمَّ عَادَ فَأَعْرِضُ عَنْهُ وَقَالَ « مَا غَنِمَ فُلَان أَفْضَل مِمَّا غَنِمَتْ تَعَلُّم خَمْسِ آيَاتٍ »
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Abū Khaythamah
- Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm
- my father
- Ibn Isḥāq Bih Mtnmkhfy Rbṭ26042471 Nṣʾin a man Aṣāb Min Maghnam Khamsah and ʿIshrīn Ūqiyyah Min Dhahab Faʾatá al-Nabī ﷺ Liyadʿū Lah Faʾuʿriḍ ʿAnh Thum ʿĀd Faʾuʿriḍ ʿAnh Thum ʿĀd Faʾaʿriḍ ʿAnh
✧ “What so-and-so gained is better than what you gained: learning five verses.” [Marfu‘]
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّد بْن إِسْحَاقصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AHأَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادححدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AHيَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة فاضل .حدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHأَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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