Sahih Muslim 196c
Regarding the saying of the Prophet ﷺ : "I will be the first of the people to intercede concerning Paradise, and I will be the Prophet with the Greatest Number of Followers."
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وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ عَنِ الْمُخْتَارِ بْنِ فُلْفُلٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ
أَنَا أَوَّلُ شَفِيعٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ لَمْ يُصَدَّقْ نَبِيٌّ مِنَ الأَنْبِيَاءِ مَا صُدِّقْتُ وَإِنَّ مِنَ الأَنْبِيَاءِ نَبِيًّا مَا يُصَدِّقُهُ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ إِلاَّ رَجُلٌ وَاحِدٌ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī
- Zāʾidah
- al-Mukhtār b. Fulful
- Anas b. Mālik
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Apostle of Allah ﷺ said: I would be the first intercessor in the Paradise and no apostle amongst the apostles has been testified (by such a large number of people) as I have been testified. And verily there woald be an apostle among the apostles who would be testified to by only one man from his people.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 5744وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَنَا أَوَّلُ شَفِيعٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ لَمْ يُصَدَّقْ نَبِيٌّ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ مَا صُدِّقْتُ وَإِنَّ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ نَبِيًّا مَا صَدَّقَهُ مِنْ أُمَّته إِلَّا ر
Other narrations of this report
Sunan ad-Darimi 50Sahih Ibn Hibban 6243al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 172al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17787Musnad al-Bazzar 7489Musnad Abi Ya'la 3971
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورقال
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. lived until around 140 AHالْمُخْتَارِ بْنِ فُلْفُلٍصدوق له أوهامعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AHزَائِدَةَثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 203 AH, or 204 AHحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- 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
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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