al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4971
✧ Merit of the Companions and the Successors in general
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا رَجُلٌ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
لَا تَسُبُّوا أَصْحَابَ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ، فَإِنَّ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَدْ أَمَرَ بِالِاسْتِغْفَارِ لَهُمْ، وَهُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ سَيُحْدِثُونَ وَيَفْعَلُونَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- a man
- Mujāhid
- Ibn ʿAbbās
✧ Do not revile the Companions of Muhammad ﷺ, for Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has commanded seeking forgiveness for them, and He knows that they will innovate and do things.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 3022aSahih Muslim 3022bMusannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33086al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3719
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- رجلحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
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