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Sahih Muslim 179c

The saying of the Prophet ﷺ : "Allah does not sleep" and "His veil is light, and if he were to remove it, the splendour of his face would burn all of his creation, as far as hs sght reaches".

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ

قَامَ فِينَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِأَرْبَعٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يَنَامُ وَلاَ يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يَنَامَ يَرْفَعُ الْقِسْطَ وَيَخْفِضُهُ وَيُرْفَعُ إِلَيْهِ عَمَلُ النَّهَارِ بِاللَّيْلِ وَعَمَلُ اللَّيْلِ بِالنَّهَارِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná and Ibn Bashhār
  2. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. ʿAmr b. Murrah
  5. Abū ʿUbaydah
  6. Abū Mūsá

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was standing amongst us and (he said) four (things): Verily Allah does not sleep and it does not befit Him to sleep. He raises the scale and lowers it. The deeds of the day are presented to Him in the night and the deeds of the night in the day.

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 19530Musnad al-Bazzar 3019Musnad al-Tayalisi 493

Narrators

  1. Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī
    a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
    أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Abū ʿUbaydah b. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 81 AH, also said: 82 AH, and al-Dhahabī was certain of it
    أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَثقة
    عن
  3. ʿAmr b. Murrah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), devout; he did not practice concealment (tadlīs), and he was accused of Irjāʾd. 118 AH, also said: before it
    عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة عابد كان لا يدلس ورمي بالإرجاء
    عن
  4. Shuʿbah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
    شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
    حدثني
  5. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
    Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
    حدثنا
  6. Muḥammad b. Bashshār
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
    وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
    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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