Sahih Muslim 155f
The descent of Isa b. Maryam to judge according to the Shariah of our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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وَحَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنِي الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ: قَالَ
«كَيْفَ أَنْتُمْ إِذَا نَزَلَ فِيكُمُ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ فَأَمَّكُمْ مِنْكُمْ۔»
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Chain of narrators
- Zuhayr b. Ḥarb
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- Ibn Abū Dhiʾb
- Ibn Shihāb
- Nāfiʿ a freed slave of Abū Qatādah
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "What would you do when ˹Jesus˺ the son of Mary would descend amongst you and would lead you as one amongst you?" Ibn Abū Dhiʾb on the authority of Abū Hurayrah narrated: "Your Imām (leader) amongst you." Ibn Abū Dhiʾb said: Do you know what the words: "He would lead as one amongst you" mean? I said: Explain these to me. He said: He would lead you according to the Book of your Lord ﷻ and the Sunnah of your Prophet ﷺ.
Notes
فَقُلْتُ لاِبْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ إِنَّ الأَوْزَاعِيَّ حَدَّثَنَا عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ: «وَإِمَامُكُمْ مِنْكُمْ۔» قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ تَدْرِي «مَا أَمَّكُمْ مِنْكُم؟»، قُلْتُ: تُخْبِرُنِي۔ قَالَ: فَأَمَّكُمْ بِكِتَابِ رَبِّكُمْ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى وَسُنَّةِ نَبِيِّكُمْ ﷺ۔
machine translationI said to Ibn Abī Dhiʾb: "Al-Awzāʿī narrated to us from al-Zuhrī, from Nāfiʿ, from Abū Hurayrah: 'And your imam is from among you.'" Ibn Abī Dhiʾb said: "Do you know what 'he leads you from among you' means?" I said: "Tell me." He said: "He leads you by the Book of your Lord, Blessed and Exalted, and the Sunnah of your Prophet ﷺ."
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3449Sahih Muslim 155dSahih Muslim 155eMusnad Ahmad 8431Sahih Ibn Hibban 6802al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9211
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)d. between 91 and 100 AHنَافِعٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي قَتَادَةَثقةعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir said, from Ibn Abī Fudayk: 158 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said, and others: 159 AHابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍثقة فقيه فاضلحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثني
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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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Commentaries
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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