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Sahih Muslim 2810b

The Believer Is Like A Plant And The Hypocrite And The Disbeliever Are Like Cedars

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حَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِ كَمَثَلِ الْخَامَةِ مِنَ الزَّرْعِ تُفِيئُهَا الرِّيَاحُ تَصْرَعُهَا مَرَّةً وَتَعْدِلُهَا حَتَّى يَأْتِيَهُ أَجَلُهُ وَمَثَلُ الْمُنَافِقِ مَثَلُ الأَرْزَةِ الْمُجْذِيَةِ الَّتِي لاَ يُصِيبُهَا شَىْءٌ حَتَّى يَكُونَ انْجِعَافُهَا مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Zuhayr b. Ḥarb
  2. Bishr b. al-Sarī and ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī
  3. Sufyān
  4. Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm
  5. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Kaʿb b. Mālik
  6. his father
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

Ka'b b. Malik reported on the authority of his father that the similitude of a believer is that of a standing crop. The wind sometimes shakes it and sometimes raises it up and then it comes to its destined end. And the similitude of a hypocrite is that of a cypress tree which is not affected by anything but is uprooted once for all.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 1541وَعَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَثَلُ الْمُؤْمِنِ كَمَثَلِ الْخَامَةِ مِنَ الزَّرْعِ تُفَيِّئُهَا الرِّيَاح تصرعها مرّة وتعدلها أُخْرَى حَتَّى يَأْتِيهِ أَجَلُهُ وَمَثَلُ الْمُنَا

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 5643Sahih Muslim 2810cMusnad Ahmad 15154Musnad Ahmad 15245Musnad al-Bazzar 7510Musnad Abi Ya'la 3476

Narrators

  1. Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Anṣārī
    a well-known Companiond. during ʿAlī's caliphate, or in the days when ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib was killed, or in the year 51 AH, also said: 50 AH, and al-Wāqidī and Abū Ḥātim stated it definitively
    كَعْب بْن مَالِك الأَنْصَارِيصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Sulamī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the caliphate of Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik
    عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقة
    عن
  3. Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf
    He was trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, and devout.d. 125 AH or 126 AH or 127 AH or 128 AH or 130 AH
    سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَوكان ثقة فاضلا عابدا
    عن
  4. Sufyān al-Thawrī
    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 AH
    سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    حدثنا
  5. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AH
    وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديث
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Khaythamah
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
    زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة ثبت
    حدثني
  7. 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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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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Mishkat al-Masabih 1541

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