al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4203
✧ The Virtue of the Reciters
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وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، ثَنَا عِيسَى هُوَ ابْنُ الْمُخْتَارِ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ أَرَأَيْتَ رَجُلًا قَرَأَ أَوَّلَ اللَّيْلِ، ثُمَّ سَرَقَ آخِرَهُ ؟ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: « إِذَا قَرَأَ أَوَّلَ اللَّيْلِ حَجَزَهُ آخِرَهُ عَنْ أَنْ يَسْرِقَ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿĪsá
- Ibn al-Mukhtār
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Laylá
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
✧ A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: “O Messenger of Allah, what do you think of a man who recited (the Qur’an) at the beginning of the night and then stole at the end of it?” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him: “When he recited at the beginning of the night, the end of it prevented him from stealing.”
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Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), of very poor memoryd. 148 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىصدوق ، سيئ الحفظ جداحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)عِيسَى هُوَ ابْنُ الْمُخْتَارِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 211 AH, or: 212 AH, also said: 219 AHبَكْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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