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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4878

✧ Virtue of al-Bara' b. Malik ᴿᴬ

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قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ، أَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ قَالَ:

دَخَلْتُ عَلَى الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ وَهُوَ مُسْتَلْقٍ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ، وَهُوَ يُنْشِدُ أَبْيَاتًا مِنَ الشِّعْرِ، كَأَنَّهُ يَتَغَنَّى بِهِنَّ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: رَحِمَكَ اللهُ، قَدْ أَبْدَلَكَ اللهُ بِهِ مَا هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنْهُ، الْقُرْآنُ. فَقَالَ: أَتَرْهَبُ أَنْ أَمُوتَ عَلَى فِرَاشِي ! لَا وَاللهِ، مَا كَانَ اللهُ لِيَحْرِمَنِي ذَلِكَ وَقَدْ قَتَلْتُ مِائَةً مُنْفَرِدًا سِوَى مَنْ شَارَكْتُ فِي ذَلِكَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
  2. Yazīd b. Hārūn
  3. Hishām
  4. Muḥammad b. Sīrīn
  5. Anas b. Mālik

✧ I entered upon al-Bara' ibn Malik ؓ while he was lying on his bed, reciting some verses of poetry as if singing them. I said to him: "May Allah have mercy on you. Allah has given you something better than this: the Quran." He said: "Do you fear that I might die on my bed? No, by Allah! Allah would not deprive me of that, for I have killed a hundred men in single combat, besides those I fought alongside the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."

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  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 20 AH, also said: before 20 AH, also said: 19 AH, also said: 23 AH
    الْبَرَاء بْن مَالِك بْن النَّضْر النَّجَّارِيّصحابي
    فقال
  2. a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
    أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنى
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Ibn Sīrīn; there is some criticism of his narration from al-Ḥasan and ʿAṭāʾ, because it was said that he used to narrate from them by way of mursal transmission (irsāl).d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or 148 AH
    هِشَامٌثقة من أثبت الناس في ابن سيرين ، وفي روايته عن الحسن وعطاء مقال لأنه قيل : كان يرسل عنهما
    أنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
    يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .
    حدثنا
  6. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ

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