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Sahih Muslim 178b

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

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي ح وَحَدَّثَنِي حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الشَّاعِرِ حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ قَالَ

قُلْتُ لأَبِي ذَرٍّ لَوْ رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَسَأَلْتُهُ فَقَالَ عَنْ أَىِّ شَىْءٍ كُنْتَ تَسْأَلُهُ قَالَ كُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَبَّكَ قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ قَدْ سَأَلْتُ فَقَالَ رَأَيْتُ نُورًا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. [Chain 1] Muḥammad b. Bashhār
  2. Muʿādh b. Hishām
  3. my father [Chain 2] Ḥajjāj b. al-Shāʿir
  4. ʿAffān b. Muslim
  5. Hammām
  6. Qatādah
  7. ʿAbdullāh b. Shaqīq

I said to Abu Dharr: Had I seen the Messenger of Allah, I would have asked him. He (Abu Dharr) said: What is that thing that you wanted to inquire of him? He said: I wanted to ask him whether he had seen his Lord. Abu Dharr said: I, in fact, inquired of him, and he replied: I saw Light.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 178aMusnad 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
    قال
  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. Hammām
    Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 163 AH, or: 164 AH, also said: 165 AH
    هَمَّامٌثقة ربما وهم
    حدثنا
  5. ʿAffān
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
    عَفَّانُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  6. Ḥajjāj b. al-Shāʿir
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 259 AH, also said: 257 AH
    حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الشَّاعِرِثقة حافظ
    حدثني
  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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