al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4996
✧ Merit of this Ummah
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وَقَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ: حَدَّثَنَا الْمُقْرِئُ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَنْعُمَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو ؓ، قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
مَثَلُ أُمَّتِي مَثَلُ الْمَطَرِ؛ لَا يُدْرَى أَوَّلُهُ أَنْفَعُ أَوْ آخِرُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Abū ʿUmar
- al-Muqriʾ
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ziyād b. Anʿum
- ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr
- In Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The likeness of my nation is that of rain; it is not known whether its beginning is more beneficial or its end.
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Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2869Musnad Ahmad 12327Musnad Ahmad 12461Musnad Ahmad 18881Musnad al-Bazzar 1426Musnad al-Bazzar 3523
Narrators
- One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاءعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 100 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقةعن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf) in his memory, he was a righteous mand. 156 AH, also said: 161 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَنْعُمَضعيف 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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