Sahih Muslim 38

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ جَمِيعًا عَنْ جَرِيرٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ كُلُّهُمْ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الثَّقَفِيِّ قَالَ

قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قُلْ لِي فِي الإِسْلاَمِ قَوْلاً لاَ أَسْأَلُ عَنْهُ أَحَدًا بَعْدَكَ؟ – وَفِي حَدِيثِ أَبِي أُسَامَةَ: غَيْرَكَ – قَالَ: «قُلْ آمَنْتُ بِاللَّهِ فَاسْتَقِمْ».

Translation

Chain of narrators

[Chain 1] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and ʾAbū Kurayb
Ibn Numayr [Chain 2] Qutaybah b. Saʿīd and ʾIsḥāq b. Ibrāhīm Jamīʿ
Jarīr [Chain 3] Abū Kurayb
Abū Usāmah Kulluhum
Hishām b. ʿUrwah
his father
Sufyān b. ʿAbdullāh al-Thaqafī

I said: O Messenger of Allah, tell me about Islam a thing something after which I would not need to ask anyone else after you – and in the hadith of Abū Usāmah the ˹words˺ are: other than you – He said: "Say: I believe in Allah, and then remain steadfast upon it."

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Same hadith, other wordings

Misykatul Mashabih 15وَعَن سُفْيَان بن عبد الله الثَّقَفِيّ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قُلْ لِي فِي الْإِسْلَامِ قَوْلًا لَا أَسْأَلُ عَنْهُ أَحَدًا بَعْدَكَ وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ: غَيْرَكَ قَالَ: " قُلْ: آمَنْتُ بِاللَّه ثمَّ اسْتَقِم. رَوَاهُ مُسلم

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 15416 Sahih Ibn Hibban 942 al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6421 al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11804 al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11805 al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11806

Narrators

Sufyān b. ʿAbdullāh b. Rabīʿah al-Ṭāʾifī
Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. between 41 AH and 50 AH
سُفْيَان بْن عَبْد الله بْن رَبِيعَة الطَّائِفِيّصحابي
عن
ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr
trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
أَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهور
عن
Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr
trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلس
عن
Abū Usāmah
Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AH
أَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.
حدثنا
Abū Kurayb
trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
أَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظ
حدثنا
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