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Sahih Muslim 178a

The saying of the Prophet ﷺ : "Light, How could I see Him?" and: "I saw Light"

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ

سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَبَّكَ؟ قَالَ: «نُورٌ، أَنَّى أَرَاهُ؟»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
  2. Wakīʿ
  3. Yazīd b. Ibrāhīm
  4. Qatādah
  5. ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq
  6. Abū Dhar

I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, "Did you see your Lord?" He said: "Light—how could I see Him?"

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 5659عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ سَأَلَتْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَبَّكَ؟ قَالَ: «نُورٌ أَنَّى أَرَاهُ». رَوَاهُ مُسلم

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 178bMusnad Ahmad 21313Musnad Ahmad 21527al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8308Musnad al-Bazzar 3913Musnad al-Tayalisi 476

Narrators

  1. Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
    أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
    عن
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq
    Trustworthy (thiqah), with some hostility toward ʿAlī (naṣb) in himd. during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf over Iraq, or 108 AH
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍثقة ، فيه نصب
    عن
  3. Qatādah b. Diʿāmah
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
    قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
    عن
  4. Yazīd b. Ibrāhīm
    Trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), except in his narration from Qatādah, in which there is some weakness (layyin)d. 161 AH or 162 AH or 163 AH
    يَزِيدَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة ثبت إلا في روايته عن قتادة ففيها لين
    عن
  5. Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ
    Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
    وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
    حدثنا
  7. Muslim
    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 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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Mishkat al-Masabih 5659

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