Sahih Muslim 2406
Virtues Of Ali b. Abu Talib ᴿᴬ
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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَاللَّفْظُ هَذَا حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ أَخْبَرَنِي سَهْلُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ يَوْمَ خَيْبَرَ لأُعْطِيَنَّ هَذِهِ الرَّايَةَ رَجُلاً يَفْتَحُ اللَّهُ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ يُحِبُّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَيُحِبُّهُ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ قَالَ فَبَاتَ النَّاسُ يَدُوكُونَ لَيْلَتَهُمْ أَيُّهُمْ يُعْطَاهَا قَالَ فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ النَّاسُ غَدَوْا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ كُلُّهُمْ يَرْجُونَ أَنْ يُعْطَاهَا فَقَالَ أَيْنَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقَالُوا هُوَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَشْتَكِي عَيْنَيْهِ قَالَ فَأَرْسَلُوا إِلَيْهِ فَأُتِيَ بِهِ فَبَصَقَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي عَيْنَيْهِ وَدَعَا لَهُ فَبَرَأَ حَتَّى كَأَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ بِهِ وَجَعٌ فَأَعْطَاهُ الرَّايَةَ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أُقَاتِلُهُمْ حَتَّى يَكُونُوا مِثْلَنَا فَقَالَ انْفُذْ عَلَى رِسْلِكَ حَتَّى تَنْزِلَ بِسَاحَتِهِمْ ثُمَّ ادْعُهُمْ إِلَى الإِسْلاَمِ وَأَخْبِرْهُمْ بِمَا يَجِبُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ حَقِّ اللَّهِ فِيهِ فَوَاللَّهِ لأَنْ يَهْدِيَ اللَّهُ بِكَ رَجُلاً وَاحِدًا خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْ أَنْ يَكُونَ لَكَ حُمْرُ النَّعَمِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz / Ibn Abū Ḥāzim
- Abū Ḥāzim
- Sahl [Chain 2] Qutaybah b. Saʿīd and -al-Lafẓ Hadhā
- Yaʿqūb / Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Abū Ḥāzim
- Sahl b. Saʿd
I would certainly give this standard to a person at whose hand Allah would grant victory and who loves Allah and His Messenger and Allah and His Messenger love him also. The people spent the night thinking as to whom it would be given. When it was morning the people hastened to Messenger of Allah ﷺ all of them hoping that that would be given to him. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Where is 'Ali b. Abu Talib? They said: Messenger of Allah, his eyes are sore. He then sent for him and he was brought and Messenger of Allah ﷺ applied saliva to his eyes and invoked blessings and he was all right, as if he had no ailment at all, and conferred upon him the standard. 'Ali said: Messenger of Allah, I will fight them until they are like us. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Advance cautiously until you reach their open places, thereafter invite them to Islam and inform them what is obligatory for them from the rights of Allah, for, by Allah, if Allah guides aright even one person through you that is better for you than to possess the most valuable of the camels.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 1807aSahih Muslim 1807bSunan Ibn Majah 121al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12627al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16714Musnad al-Bazzar 1139
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. Abū Nuʿaym and more than one said: 88 AH. Al-Wāqidī and others said: 91 AH. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: he lived a hundred years or more, so on this basis he would have lived until the year 96 AH or after itسَهْلُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Khalfūn said: 132 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī: 133 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 135 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 140 AH. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 143 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said: 144 AHأَبِي حَازِمٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 181 AHيَعْقُوبُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة 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
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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