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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 540

✧ Conditions of the imams

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قَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ الْمُحَبَّرِ، ثَنَا [عَنْبَسَةُ] بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ عَلَّاقٍ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ؓ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:

« إِمَامُ الْقَوْمِ وَافِدُهُمْ إِلَى اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَقَدِّمُوا أَفْضَلَكُمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-Ḥārith
  2. Dāwud b. al-Muḥabbar
  3. ʿAnbasah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  4. ʿAllāq Abū Muslim
  5. Anas b. Mālik
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

✧ “The imam of a people is their delegate to God, Mighty and Majestic, so put forward the best of you.”

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Narrators

  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. ʿIlāq b. Abī Muslim
    unknown (majhūl)
    عَلَّاقٍ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍمجهول
    عن
  3. ʿAnbasah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
    abandoned (matrūk)d. between 171 and 180 AH
    [عَنْبَسَةُ] بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِمتروك
    حدثنا
  4. Dāwūd b. al-Muḥabbar
    abandoned (matrūk)d. 206 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in: «the section on those who died from 90 to 200»
    دَاوُدُ بْنُ الْمُحَبَّرِمتروك
    حدثنا
  5. al-Ḥārith
    d. 279 AH or 282 AH
    الْحَارِثُ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

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