Sahih Muslim 2810c

Translation

This hadith has been narrated through a couple of other chains of transmitters, one which says "the similitude of the disbeliever" instead and another which agrees with the wording of the previous hadith.

Notes

• وَحَدَّثَنِيهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ، وَمَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم غَيْرَ أَنَّ مَحْمُودًا قَالَ فِي رِوَايَتِهِ عَنْ بِشْرٍ " وَمَثَلُ الْكَافِرِ كَمَثَلِ الأَرْزَةِ ". وَأَمَّا ابْنُ حَاتِمٍ فَقَالَ " مَثَلُ الْمُنَافِقِ ". كَمَا قَالَ زُهَيْرٌ

Grades by grader

Other narrations of this report

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

Narrators

1. 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. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 97 AH, or 98 AH; also said 89 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقة
   عن
3. 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. 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. 5
   Bishr b. al-Sarī

   he was a preacher, trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), he was criticised for holding the view of Jahm, then he apologised and repentedd. al-Bukhārī said: Maḥmūd told me he died in the year 195 AH, and others said the year 196 AH
   بِشْرُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّكان واعظا ، ثقة متقن ، طعن فيه برأي جهم ، ثم اعتذر وتاب
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. al-Bukhārī and others said: 239 AH. Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad b. Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī said: 249 AH
   وَمَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَثقة
   حدثني
7. 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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