al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 495
✧ The rows
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا الْخَلِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا، ثَنَا مُجَالِدٌ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتِ قَيْسٍ ؓ، قَالَتْ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:
« خَيْرُ صُفُوفِ الرِّجَالِ أَوَّلُهَا، وَشَرُّهَا آخِرُهَا، وَخَيْرُ صُفُوفِ النِّسَاءِ آخِرُهَا وَشَرُّهَا أَوَّلُهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- al-Khalīl b. Zakariyyā
- Mujālid
- al-Shaʿbī
- Fāṭimah Bint Qays
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ «The best of the rows of men are the first ones, and the worst are the last ones; and the best of the rows of women are the last ones and the worst are the first ones.»
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- ابن عدي
هذه الأحاديث التي ذكرتها بأسانيدها عن الخليل بن زكريا مناكير كلها عامة أحاديثه مناكير
in المطالب العالية, p. 495
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 224Musnad Ahmad 11121Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 201Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 415Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7711al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2302
Narrators
- well-known Companion (female), among the first women emigrantsd. She lived until the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah.فَاطِمَة بِنْت قَيْس الْفِهْرِيَّةصحابية مشهورة وكانت من المهاجرات الأولعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmīالشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضلعن
- Not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), and he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life.d. 144 AH, also said: 143 AHمُجَالِدٌليس بالقوي ، وقد تغير في آخر عمرهحدثنا
- abandoned (matrūk)d. between 201 AH and 211 AHالْخَلِيلُ بْنُ زَكَرِيَّامتروكحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
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