al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 696
✧ The virtue of walking to the mosques at night
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قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ:
مَنْ مَشَى فِي ظُلْمَةِ اللَّيْلِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ: لَقِيَ اللهَ تَعَالَى بِنُورٍ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Abū Usāmah
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd b. Jābir
- Makḥūl
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ Whoever walks in the darkness of the night to the mosque will meet Allah Almighty with light on the Day of Resurrection.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
رجاله ثقات إلا أنه منقطع بين مكحول والصحابي رضي الله عنه
in المطالب العالية, p. 696
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4703al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5962al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6650al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 845al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5055
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), frequently narrating with omission of the Companion (kathīr al-irsāl), well-known (mashhūr)d. 112 AH, or: 113 AH, or: 114 AH, or: 116 AH, Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus said: it is said 118 AHمَكْحُولٍثقة فقيه ، كثير الإرسال ، مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 153 AH, or 154 AH, or 155 AH, or 156 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AHأَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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