al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5542
✧ The Description of Paradise and Its People
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ، ثَنَا خَلَفُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
إِنَّكَ لَتَنْظُرُ إِلَى الطَّيْرِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ فَتَشْتَهِيهِ، فَيَخِرُّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ مَشْوِيًّا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Aḥmad b. Ḥātim
- Khalaf b. Khalīfah
- Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥārith
- Ibn Masʿūd
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ You will look at a bird in Paradise and desire it, and it will fall before you roasted.
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- ابن عدي
ليست بمستقيمة ولا يتابع عليها
machine translationThey are not sound, and they are not corroborated.
in المطالب العالية, p. 5542
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- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِثقةعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf).d. 150 AHحُمَيْدٍ الْأَعْرَجِضعيف.عن
- truthful (ṣadūq), his memory became confused (ikhtilāṭ) at the endd. Aḥmad said: I think in the year 180 AH or at the end of the year 179 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: 181 AH. From ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd: 185 AHخَلَفُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَصدوق ، اختلط في الآخرحدثنا
- d. 227 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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