Sahih Muslim 2383c
The Virtues Of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (RA)
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَنِي سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عُمَيْسٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
لَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا خَلِيلاً لاَتَّخَذْتُ ابْنَ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ خَلِيلاً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná and Ibn Bashhār
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Sufyān
- Abū Isḥāq
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh [Chain 2] ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd
- Jaʿfar b. ʿAwn
- Abū ʿUmays
- Ibn Abū Mulaykah
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
If I were to choose as my bosom friend I would have chosen the son of Abu Quhafa (Abu Bakr) as my bosom friend.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 467Musnad Ahmad 16107Musnad Ahmad 2432Sunan ad-Darimi 2953al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12546Musnad al-Bazzar 2209
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsufأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديثحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 252 AH, also said: 250 AH, also said: 251 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّىثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
شرح مشكل الآثار
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
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