al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 440
✧ Virtue of the one who builds a mosque
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وَقَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ [الطَّيَالِسِيُّ]: حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، أَخْبَرَنِي جَابِرٌ، عَنْ عَمَّارٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ، قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
« مَنْ بَنَى مَسْجِدًا وَلَوْ كَمَفْحَصِ قَطَاةٍ لِبَيْضِهَا بَنَى اللهُ لَهُ بَيْتًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Dāwud al-Ṭayālisī
- Shuʿbah
- Jābir
- ʿAmmār
- Saʿīd b. Jubayr
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- In Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ "Whoever builds a mosque, even if it is like the nest of a sandgrouse for its eggs, Allah will build for him a house in Paradise."
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- ابن عدي
جابر الجعفي له حديث صالح ولم أر له أحاديث جاوزت المقدار في الإنكار وهو مع هذا كله أقرب إلى الضعف منه إلى الصدق
in المطالب العالية, p. 440
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 319al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5065Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 19900Musnad Abi Ya'la 4299
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), inclined to Shīʿismd. 133 AHعَمَّارٍصدوق يتشيععن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), a Rāfiḍīd. 127 AH, or 128 AH, 132 AHجَابِرٌضعيف رافضيأخبرني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ [الطَّيَالِسِيُّ]ثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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