al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 629
✧ Bowing, prostration, and the remembrance in them
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- وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَى، ثَنَا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عُثَيْمٍ الْحَضْرَمِيَّ، يَقُولُ: حَدَّثَنِي عُثَيْمٌ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَطَاءٍ الْخُرَاسَانِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ، قَالَتْ:
كَانَتْ لَيْلَتِي مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَانْسَلَّ، فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ أَتَى بَعْضَ نِسَائِهِ، فَخَرَجْتُ غَيْرَى، فَإِذَا بِهِ ﷺ سَاجِدًا كَالثَّوْبِ الطَّرِيحِ، فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ: سَجَدَ لَكَ سَوَادِي، وَخَيَالِي، وَآمَنَ بِكَ فُؤَادِي، هَذِهِ يَدِي، وَمَا جَنَيْتُ عَلَى نَفْسِي، يَا عَظِيمُ يُرْجَى لِكُلِّ عَظِيمٍ، فَاغْفِرِ الذَّنْبَ الْعَظِيمَ، فَرَفَعَ ﷺ رَأْسَهُ وَقَالَ: مَا أَخْرَجَكِ ؟ قُلْتُ: ظَنَنْتُ ظَنًّا، قَالَ ﷺ: إِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ إِثْمٌ، فَاسْتَغْفِرِي اللهَ تَعَالَى، إِنَّ جِبْرِيلَ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ أَتَانِي، فَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ أَقُولَ هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَاتِ الَّتِي سَمِعْتِ، فَقُولِيهَا فِي سُجُودِكِ، فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ قَالَهَا لَمْ يَرْفَعْ رَأْسَهُ حَتَّى يُغْفَرَ لَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- ʿAbd al-Aʿlá
- Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān
- Muḥammad b. ʿUthaym al-Ḥaḍramī
- ʿUthaym
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī
- his father
- ʿĀʾishah
✧ It was my night with the Messenger of God ﷺ, and he slipped away. I thought he had gone to one of his other wives, so I went out feeling jealous. Then I found him ﷺ prostrating like a garment thrown on the ground. I heard him saying: 'My physical form and my inner self have prostrated to You, and my heart has believed in You. This is my hand and what I have committed against myself. O Great One, from whom every great thing is hoped, forgive the great sin.' Then he ﷺ raised his head and said: 'What brought you out?' I said: 'I had a thought.' He ﷺ said: 'Some thoughts are sinful. Seek forgiveness from God Almighty. Gabriel ﷺ came to me and ordered me to say these words that you heard. Say them in your prostration, for whoever says them will not raise his head before he is forgiven.'
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- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), errs often, and narrates mursal, and practises concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH, or 135 AHأَبِيهِصدوق يهم كثيرا ، ويرسل ، ويدلسعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. Ibn Yūnus said: 151 AH, from Ibn al-Athīr: 154 AH, Ḍamrah said: 155 AHعُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَطَاءٍ الْخُرَاسَانِيِّضعيفعن
- عثيمحدثني
- مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عُثَيْمٍ الْحَضْرَمِيَّسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AHمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَثقةحدثنا
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. Ibn Ḥajar said: 236 AH, or 237 AH, said by al-Bukhārī, or: 239 AHعَبْدُ الْأَعْلَىلا بأس بهحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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