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Sahih Muslim 3000a

The Prohibition Of Praising if It Involves Exaggeration And There Is The Fear That It May Be A Source Of Temptation (Fitnah) For The One Who Is Praised

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

مَدَحَ رَجُلٌ رَجُلاً عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ فَقَالَ وَيْحَكَ قَطَعْتَ عُنُقَ صَاحِبِكَ قَطَعْتَ عُنُقَ صَاحِبِكَ مِرَارًا إِذَا كَانَ أَحَدُكُمْ مَادِحًا صَاحِبَهُ لاَ مَحَالَةَ فَلْيَقُلْ أَحْسِبُ فُلاَنًا وَاللَّهُ حَسِيبُهُ وَلاَ أُزَكِّي عَلَى اللَّهِ أَحَدًا أَحْسِبُهُ إِنْ كَانَ يَعْلَمُ ذَاكَ كَذَا وَكَذَا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá
  2. Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
  3. Khālid al-Ḥadhhāʾ
  4. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Bakrah
  5. his father

Woe be to thee, you have broken the neck of your friend, you have broken the neck of your friend-he said this twice. If one of you has to praise his friend at all, he should say: I think (him to be) so and Allah knows it well and I do not know the secret of the heart and Allah knows the destined end, and I cannot testify his purity against Allah but (he appears) to be so and so.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Hisnul Muslim 231قال صلى الله عليه وسلم: "إِذَا كَانَ أَحَدُكُم مَادِحاً صَاحِبَهُ لاَ مَحَالَةَ فَلْيَقُلْ: أَحْسِبُ فُلاَناً وَاللَّهُ حَسِيبُهُ، وَلاَ أُزَكِّي عَلَى اللَّهِ أَحَداً، أَحْسِبُهُ – إِنْ كَانَ يَعْلَمُ ذَاكَ – كَذَا وَكَذَا"

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 2662Sahih al-Bukhari 6061Sunan Abi Dawud 4805Musnad Ahmad 20468Musnad Ahmad 20484Sahih Ibn Hibban 5766

Narrators

  1. Abū Bakrah al-Thaqafī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 50 AH, or: 51 AH, or: 52 AH, or: 59 AH, also said: 53 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرَةَ الثَّقَفِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakrah
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 96 AH
    عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَثقة
    عن
  3. Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ
    Trustworthy (thiqah); he narrates with omission of the intermediary (yursil).d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, or more.
    خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِثقة يرسل.
    عن
  4. Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
    trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.
    يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .
    حدثنا
  5. Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā
    trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imam (imām).d. 226 AH, or 224 AH, or 225 AH; both of the latter two are mistaken.
    يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة ثبت إمام .
    حدثنا
  6. 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

al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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