al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4964
✧ Merit of the Companions and the Successors in general
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وَقَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، عَنْ سَلَّامٍ الطَّوِيلِ، عَنْ زَيْدٍ الْعَمِّيِّ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
مَثَلُ أَصْحَابِي فِي أُمَّتِي مَثَلُ النُّجُومِ يَهْتَدُونَ بِهَا، إِذَا غَابَتْ تَحَيَّرُوا
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Chain of narrators
- Ibn Abū ʿUmar
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAlī
- Sallām al-Ṭawīl
- Zayd al-ʿAmmī
- Yazīd al-Raqāshī
- Anas b. Mālik
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ The example of my companions among my nation is like the stars by which they are guided; when they disappear, they become confused.
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| Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Weak Chainin المطالب العالية, p. 4964 | hadithunlocked |
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- ascetic (zāhid), weak (ḍaʿīf)d. before 120 AHيَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّزاهد ، ضعيفعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 131 AH and 140 AHزَيْدٍ الْعَمِّيِّضعيفعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 177 AH approximatelyسَلَّامٍ الطَّوِيلِمتروكعن
- عبد الله بن عليحدثنا
- 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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