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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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