Sahih Muslim 134b
Clarifying the Waswasah (Whispers, Bad Thoughts) with regard to faith, and what the one who experiences that should say
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وَحَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النَّضْرِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْمُؤَدِّبُ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
يَأْتِي الشَّيْطَانُ أَحَدَكُمْ فَيَقُولُ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاءَ مَنْ خَلَقَ الأَرْضَ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ بِمِثْلِهِ وَزَادَ وَرُسُلِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān
- Abū al-Naḍr
- Abū Saʿīd al-Muʾaddib
- Hishām b. ʿUrwah Bihadhā al-Isnād
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The Satan will come to everyone of you and say: Who created the heaven, who created the earth? (And the man) replies: It is Allah, Then the remaining part of the hadith was narrated as mentioned above and the words 'His prophets" were added to it.
Notes
وَحَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النَّضْرِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْمُؤَدِّبُ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " يَأْتِي الشَّيْطَانُ أَحَدَكُمْ فَيَقُولُ مَنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاءَ مَنْ خَلَقَ الأَرْضَ فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ ". ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ بِمِثْلِهِ وَزَادَ " وَرُسُلِهِ
machine translationMaḥmūd b. Ghaylān narrated to us, Abū al-Naḍr narrated to us, Abū Saʿīd al-Muʾaddib narrated to us, from Hishām b. ʿUrwah, with this chain of transmission, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The Devil comes to one of you and says: 'Who created the heavens? Who created the earth?' So he says: 'Allah.'" Then he mentioned the like of it and added: "and His messengers."
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Other narrations of this report
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Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHعروة بن الزبيرثقة فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. Ibn Saʿd said: in the caliphate of Mūsā al-Hādī, al-Dhahabī said: before 170 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said: after 180 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْمُؤَدِّبُصدوق يهمحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AHأَبُو النَّضْرِثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. al-Bukhārī and others said: 239 AH. Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad b. Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī said: 249 AHمَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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