al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4797
✧ The Virtue of Safwan b. al-Mu'attal, ᴿᴬ
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا الْقَوَارِيرِيُّ، ثَنَا سُلَيْمُ بْنُ أَخْضَرَ، ثَنَا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ، أَنْبَأَنِي الْحَسَنُ، عَنْ صَاحِبِ زَادِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ ؓ قَالَ ابْنُ عَوْنٍ: كَانَ يُسَمَّى سَفِينَةَ:
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ فِي سَفَرٍ، وَرَاحِلَتُهُ بِهَا زَادُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ، فَجَاءَ صَفْوَانُ بْنُ الْمُعَطَّلِ فَقَالَ: إِنِّي قَدْ جُعْتُ، فَقَالَ: مَا أَنَا بِمُعْطِيكَ حَتَّى يَأْمُرَنِي النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَيَنْزِلَ النَّاسُ فَنَأْكُلَ، قَالَ: فَقَالَ هَكَذَا بِالسَّيْفِ، وَكَشَفَ عُرْقُوبَ الرَّاحِلَةِ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ إِذَا حَزَبَهُمْ أَمْرٌ قَالُوا: احْبِسْ أَوَّلُ، احْبِسْ أَوَّلُ. فَسَمِعُوا فَوَقَفُوا، وَجَاءَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، فَلَمَّا رَأَى مَا صَنَعَ صَفْوَانُ بْنُ الْمُعَطَّلِ بِالرَّاحِلَةِ قَالَ لَهُ: اخْرُجْ، وَأَمَرَ النَّاسَ أَنْ يَسِيرُوا، فَجَعَلَ صَفْوَانُ بْنُ الْمُعَطَّلِ يَتْبَعُهُمْ حَتَّى نَزَلُوا، فَجَعَلَ يَأْتِيهِمْ فِي رِحَالِهِمْ وَيَقُولُ: إِلَى أَيْنَ أَخْرَجَنِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ إِلَى النَّارِ أَخْرَجَنِي ؟ قَالَ: فَأَتَوْا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، مَا زَالَ صَفْوَانُ بْنُ الْمُعَطَّلِ يَتَحَوَّبُ رِحَالَنَا مُنْذُ اللَّيْلَةِ، وَيَقُولُ: إِلَى أَيْنَ أَخْرَجَنِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ ؟ إِلَى النَّارِ أَخْرَجَنِي ؟ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: إِنَّ صَفْوَانَ بْنَ الْمُعَطَّلِ خَبِيثُ اللِّسَانِ طَيِّبُ الْقَلْبِ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- al-Qawārīrī
- Sulaym b. Akhḍar
- Ibn ʿAwn
- al-Ḥasan
- Ṣāḥib Zād al-Nabī ﷺ
- Ibn ʿAwn Kān Yusammá Safīnah
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ was on a journey, and his riding camel carried the provisions of the Prophet ﷺ. Ṣafwān b. al-Muʿaṭṭal came and said: “I am hungry.” He said: “I will not give you until the Prophet ﷺ orders me, and the people dismount, and we eat.” He said: “So he said, like this, with the sword,” and he cut the hamstring of the riding camel. He said: “When some matter distressed them, they would say: ‘Hold back the front, hold back the front.’ They heard, so they halted. The Messenger of God ﷺ came, and when he saw what Ṣafwān b. al-Muʿaṭṭal had done to the riding camel, he said to him: ‘Depart.’ He ordered the people to continue, and Ṣafwān b. al-Muʿaṭṭal began to follow them until they camped. Then he started coming to their mounts, saying: ‘To where has the Messenger of God ﷺ expelled me? To the Fire has he expelled me?’ They came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and said: ‘O Messenger of God, Ṣafwān b. al-Muʿaṭṭal has been grieving at our mounts since last night, saying: ‘To where has the Messenger of God ﷺ expelled me? To the Fire has he expelled me?’ The Messenger of God ﷺ said: ‘Ṣafwān b. al-Muʿaṭṭal has a foul tongue but a pure heart.’”
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5503al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5505
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. He died at the same time as Jābir, in the time of al-Ḥajjāj, or between the years 200 and 90.سَفِينَة مَوْلَى رَسُول اللهصحابيعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنُثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسأنبأني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), virtuous (fāḍil).d. 150 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 152 AHابْنُ عَوْنٍثقة ثبت فاضلحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), precise (ḍābiṭ)d. 180 AHسُلَيْمُ بْنُ أَخْضَرَثقة , ضابطحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 233 AH or 234 AH or 235 AHالْقَوَارِيرِيُّثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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