al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4981

Translation

✧ The likeness of my Companions is that of salt in food; food is only good with salt.

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  هذا خطأ إنما هو إسماعيل بن مسلم المكي عن الحسن عن أنس عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وأخطأ فيه أبو الطاهر

  machine translationThis is an error. It is only Ismāʿīl b. Muslim al-Makkī, from al-Ḥasan, from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ, and Abū al-Ṭāhir erred in it. Report a problem

  in المطالب العالية, p. 4981

Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7124Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33073Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36374Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20454Musnad al-Bazzar 4636al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6971

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Ismāʿīl b. Muslim

   he was a jurist, weak in hadith (ḍaʿīf al-ḥadīth)
   إِسْمَاعِيلَكان فقيها ، ضعيف الحديث
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   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 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Suwayd b. Saʿīd

   Truthful in himself (ṣadūq), except that he went blind and would accept prompting of what was not from his hadith.d. 240 AH, or: 239 AH
   سُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍصدوق في نفسه ، إلا أنه عمي فصار يتلقن ما ليس من حديثه
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī

   d. 307 AH
   أَبُو يَعْلَى

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