al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4596
✧ The Extent of the Prophet's ﷺ Knowledge
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قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الطَّنَافِسِيُّ، ثَنَا فِطْرٌ - هُوَ ابْنُ خَلِيفَةَ عَنْ أَبِي يَعْلَى هُوَ مُنْذِرٌ الثَّوْرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ - ؓ قَالَ:
لَقَدْ تَرَكَنَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ وَمَا تَقَلَّبَ طَيْرٌ بِجَنَاحَيْهِ فِي السَّمَاءِ إِلَّا ذَكَّرَنَا مِنْهُ عِلْمًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd al-Ṭanāfisī
- Fiṭr
- Ibn Khalīfah
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Mundhir al-Thawrī
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ left us, and no bird flapped its wings in the sky except that he mentioned to us some knowledge of it.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
رواته ثقات إلا أنه منقطع واختلف على فطر
machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqah), except that it is broken in its chain (munqaṭiʿ), and there was disagreement about Fiṭr.
in المطالب العالية, p. 4596
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 21439Musnad Ahmad 21440Sahih Ibn Hibban 65al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1645Musnad al-Tayalisi 481al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4597
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)أَبِي يَعْلَى هُوَ مُنْذِرٌ الثَّوْرِيُّثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), accused of Shiʿism (rumiya bi-l-tashayyuʿ)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 153 AH, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHفِطْرٌ - هُوَ ابْنُ خَلِيفَةَصدوق ، رمي بالتشيعحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), with a good memory (yaḥfaẓ).d. 203 AH, or 204 AH, or 205 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الطَّنَافِسِيُّثقة يحفظحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
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