al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4950
✧ Banu Himyar and al-Sakun
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قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْمُقْرِئُ، حَدَّثَنَا الْإِفْرِيقِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْغَازِي الْعَنْسِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ ؓ، قَالَ: إِنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:
إِنَّ مِنْ خِيَارِ النَّاسِ الْأُمْلُوكَ؛ أُمْلُوكَ حِمْيَرَ، وَشَعْبَانَ، وَالسَّكُونِ، وَالْأَشْعَرِيِّينَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Abū ʿUmar
- al-Muqriʾ
- al-Ifrīqī
- Abū al-Ghāzī al-ʿAnsī
- Abū Umāmah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Among the best of people are the kings: the kings of Himyar, Sha'ban, al-Sakun, and the Ash'aris.
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- a well-known Companiond. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh said: 81 AH. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī and more than one said: 86 AHأَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- أَبُو الْغَازِي الْعَنْسِيُّحدثنا
- Weak (ḍaʿīf) in his memory, he was a righteous mand. 156 AH, also said: 161 AHالْإِفْرِيقِيُّضعيف في حفظه ، وكان رجلا صالحاحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil); he taught the recitation of the Quran for over seventy yearsd. 212 AH, or 213 AHالْمُقْرِئُثقة فاضل ، أقرأ القرآن نيفا وسبعين سنةحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq); he compiled a Musnad and was a close companion of Ibn ʿUyaynah; but Abū Ḥātim said: He had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 243 AH, also said: 244 AHابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَصدوق ، صنف المسند ، وكان لازم ابن عيينة ، لكن قال أبو حاتم : كانت فيه غفلة
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