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Sahih Muslim 2381

The Virtues Of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (RA)

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حَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الدَّارِمِيُّ، قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: أَخْبَرَنَا، وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ: حَدَّثَنَا حَبَّانُ بْنُ هِلاَلٍ، حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ، حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقَ حَدَّثَهُ قَالَ:

نَظَرْتُ إِلَى أَقْدَامِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ عَلَى رُءُوسِنَا وَنَحْنُ فِي الْغَارِ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ نَظَرَ إِلَى قَدَمَيْهِ أَبْصَرَنَا تَحْتَ قَدَمَيْهِ. فَقَالَ «يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ، مَا ظَنُّكَ بِاثْنَيْنِ اللَّهُ ثَالِثُهُمَا».

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Zuhayr b. Ḥarb and ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd Waʿabd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Dārimī
  2. ʿAbdullāh
  3. al-Ākharān
  4. Ḥabbān b. Hilāl
  5. Hammām
  6. Thābit
  7. Anas b. Mālik
  8. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

He said: I looked at the feet of the polytheists above our heads while we were in the cave, and I said, "O Messenger of Allah, if one of them were to look at his feet, he would see us beneath his feet." He said, "O Abu Bakr, what do you think of the two when Allah ﷻ is their third?"

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  • Misykatul Mashabih 5868عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ الصّديق رَضِي الله عَنهُ قا ل: نظرتُ إِلى أقدامِ المشركينَ على رؤوسنا وَنَحْنُ فِي الْغَارِ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ نَظَرَ إِلَى قَدَمِهِ أَبْصَرَنَا فَقَالَ: «يَا أَبَا

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
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  2. a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
    أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
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  3. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
    ثَابِتٌثقة عابد
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  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 163 AH, or: 164 AH, also said: 165 AH
    هَمَّامٌثقة ربما وهم
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  5. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 210 AH or 216 AH
    حَبَّانُ بْنُ هِلَالٍثقة ثبت
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  6. trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
    وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الدَّارِمِيُّثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
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  7. 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

Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
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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