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Sahih Muslim 5

The Prohibition of Narrating Everything One Hears

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وَحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ

«بِحَسْبِ الْمَرْءِ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ بِكُلِّ مَا سَمِعَ۔»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá
  2. Hushaym
  3. Sulaymān al-Taymī
  4. Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī
  5. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Shahih Muslim 5.s2بِحَسْبِ الْمَرْءِ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ بِكُلِّ مَا سَمِعَ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
    عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
    قال
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 75 AH, or 81 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, or shortly after it, also said: after the year 95 AH
    أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّثقة ثبت عابد
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 143 AH, or 144 AH
    سُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّثقة عابد
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AH
    هُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفي
    أخبرنا
  5. 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. 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)
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)

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