al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4772
✧ What a Group of the Companions Shared, ᴿᴬ
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4772 3993 / 2 - وَقَالَ الْبَزَّارُ: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ الْقُشَيْرِيُّ، ثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ فَذَكَرَهُ. وَقَالَ:
النَّضْرُ وَسَعْدٌ لَمْ يَكُونَا قَوِيَّيْنِ، وَمَا رَوَاهُ إِلَّا جَعْفَرٌ.
The text that “the like of it” refers to · matalib:4771
أَتَى جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ النَّبِيّ ﷺ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّد إِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى يُحِبُّ مِنْ أَصْحَابِك ثَلَاثَة فَأَحَبّهمْ عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَأَبُو ذَرٍّ وَالْمِقْدَاد ؓ قَالَ وَأَتَاهُ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّد إِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ لِتَشْتَاقَ إِلَى ثَلَاثَةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِك وَعِنْدَهُ ﷺ أَنَس بْن مَالِك ؓ فَرَجَا أَنْ يَكُونَ لِبَعْضِ الْأَنْصَارِ قَالَ فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَسْأَلَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْهُمْ فَهَابَهُ فَخَرَجَ فَلَقِيَ أَبَا بَكْر ؓ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْر إِنِّي كُنْت عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ آنِفًا فَأَتَاهُ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ فَقَالَ إِنْ الْجَنَّةَ تَشْتَاقُ إِلَى ثَلَاثَةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِك فَرَجَوْت أَنْ يَكُونَ لِبَعْضِ الْأَنْصَارِ فَهِبْتُ أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ ﷺ فَهَلْ لَكَ أَنْ تَدْخُلَ فَتَسْأَلَهُ فَقَالَ ؓ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ فَلَا أَكُونَ مِنْهُمْ فَيَشْمَتَ بِي قَوْمِي ثُمَّ لَقِيَ عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابِ ؓ فَقَالَ لَهُ مِثْلَ قَوْله لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ فَقَالَ لَهُ مِثْلَ قَوْلٍ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ فَلَقِيَ عَلِيًّا ؓ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيّ ؓ نَعَم أَنَا أَسْأَلُهُ فَإِنْ كُنْتُ مِنْهُمْ فَأَحْمَدُ اللهَ تَعَالَى وَإِنْ لَمْ أَكُنْ مِنْهُمْ يَعْنِي فَلَا يضَرَ فَدَخَلَ عَلِيّ ؓ فَقَالَ إِنَّ أَنَسًا ؓ
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Chain of narrators
- al-Bazzār
- Aḥmad b. Mālik al-Qushayrī
- Jaʿfar b. Sulaymān Fadhakarah
✧ Al-Nadr and Sa'd were not strong, and none narrated it except Ja'far.
The text that “the like of it” refers to
Jibril ﷺ came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, 'O Muhammad, Allah the Exalted loves three of your Companions, so love them: Ali b. Abi Talib, Abu Dharr, and al-Miqdad ؓ.' He said: Then Jibril ﷺ came to him and said, 'O Muhammad, Paradise yearns for three of your Companions,' and Anas b. Malik ؓ was with him ﷺ, and he hoped it might be for some of the Ansar. Anas said: He wanted to ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about them but was in awe of him. So he went out and met Abu Bakr ؓ and said, 'O Abu Bakr, I was just with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when Jibril ﷺ came to him and said, "Paradise yearns for three of your Companions." I hoped it might be for some of the Ansar, but I was too in awe to ask him ﷺ. Would you go in and ask him?' Abu Bakr ؓ said, 'I fear to ask him and then not be among them, and my people would gloat over me.' Then Anas met Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ and said to him the same as he had said to Abu Bakr ؓ, and Umar replied the same as Abu Bakr ؓ had. Then he met Ali ؓ, and Ali ؓ said to him, 'Yes, I will ask him. If I am among them, I will praise Allah the Exalted; and if I am not among them—meaning, it will not harm.' So Ali ؓ entered and said, 'Anas ؓ...'
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه النضر بن حميد وهو متروك
machine translationIn it is al-Naḍr b. Ḥumayd, and he is abandoned (matrūk).
in المطالب العالية, p. 4772
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5152al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6053al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6054Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32997al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4768al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4771
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- The grandson of the Messenger of God ﷺ and his sweet-scented flower (rayḥānah); he memorized from him (Companion)d. 61 AH, also said: killed on the last day of the year 60 AH, also said otherwiseالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّسبط رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وريحانته ، حفظ عنهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), a jurist (faqīh), excellent and well knownd. 72 AH, or 74 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AHعلي بن الحسين زين العابدينثقة ثبت عابد ، فقيه فاضل مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 114 AH, or 118 AH, also said: 115 AH, also said: 116 AH, also said: 117 AHأبو جعفر الباقرثقة فاضلعن
- Abandoned (matrūk); Ibn Ḥibbān accused him of fabrication (waḍʿ), and he was a Rāfiḍī.d. between 141 AH and 150 AHسعد بن طريف الإسكافمتروك ، ورماه ابن حبان بالوضع ، وكان رافضياعن
- d. between 151 and 160 AHالنضر بن حميدعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) and ascetic (zāhid), but he leaned towards Shiʿism.d. 178 AHجَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَصدوق زاهد ، لكنه كان يتشيعحدثنا
- أحمد بن مالك القشيريحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالْبَزَّارُ
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