Sahih Muslim 2255c

Translation

"He (that is Umayya b. Abu Salt) was about to become a Muslim", and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ibn Mahdi (the words are) "He was almost a Muslim in his poetry."

Notes

• وَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى، أَخْبَرَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ، كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الطَّائِفِيِّ، عَنْ عَمْرِو، بْنِ الشَّرِيدِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ اسْتَنْشَدَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم. بِمِثْلِ حَدِيثِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مَيْسَرَةَ وَزَادَ قَالَ " إِنْ كَادَ لَيُسْلِمُ ". وَفِي حَدِيثِ ابْنِ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ " فَلَقَدْ كَادَ يُسْلِمُ فِي شِعْرِهِ

  machine translationAnd Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā narrated to us, Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān informed us; (change of chain) and Zuhayr b. Ḥarb narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī narrated to us; both of them from ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭāʾifī, from ʿAmr b. al-Sharīd, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked me to recite poetry, in the same words as the hadith of Ibrāhīm b. Maysarah, and he added: He said, "He was almost a Muslim." And in the hadith of Ibn Mahdī he said: "He was almost becoming a Muslim in his poetry." Report a problem

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 3758Musnad Ahmad 19464Sahih Ibn Hibban 5782al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2432al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10798

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Sharīd b. Suwayd al-Qusaḥmī

   a Companion, present at the Pledge of Riḍwān
   الشَّرِيد بن سُوَيْد القُسَحْمِيّصحابي , شهد بيعة الرضوان
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAmr b. al-Sharīd al-Ṭāʾifī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَمْرِو بْنِ الشَّرِيدِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭāʾifī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes and errs
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الطَّائِفِيِّصدوق يخطئ ويهم
   عن
4. 4
   Muʿtamir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AH
   الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ.ثقة
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imam (imām).d. 226 AH, or 224 AH, or 225 AH; both of the latter two are mistaken.
   يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة ثبت إمام .
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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