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
- Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá
- Hushaym
- Sulaymān al-Taymī
- Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī
- 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
Sahih Ibn Hibban 30al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8585Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26131al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 381al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 382
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبقال
- 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 AHأَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّثقة ثبت عابدعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 143 AH, or 144 AHسُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّثقة عابدعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AHهُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفيأخبرنا
- 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
- 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 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة 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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