Sunan an-Nasa'i 448

Translation

"While I was at the Ka'bah, in a state between sleep and wakefulness, three men came, and one of them who was in the middle came toward me. I was brought a basin of gold, filled with wisdom and faith, and he slit open from the throat to the lower abdomen, and washed the heart with Zamzam water, then - "it was filled with wisdom and faith. Then I was brought a riding-beast, smaller than a mule and bigger than a donkey. I set off with Jibril, peace be upon him, and we came to the lowest heaven. It was said: 'Who is with you?' He said: 'Muhammad.' It was said: 'Has (revelation) been sent to him? Welcome to him, what an excellent visit his is.' I came to Adam, peace be upon him, and greeted him, and he said: 'Welcome to you! What an excellent son and Prophet.' Then we came to the second heaven and it was said: 'Who is this?' He said: 'Jibra'il.' [1] It was said: 'Who is with you?' he said: 'Muhammad.' And the same exchange took place. I came to Yahya and 'Eisa, peace be upon them both, and greeted them, and they said: 'Welcome to you! What an excellent brother and Prophet.' Then we came to the third heaven and it was said: 'Who is this?' He said: 'Jibra'il.' It was said: 'Who is with you?' He said: 'Muhammad.' And the same exchange took place. I came to Yusuf, peace be upon him, and greeted him, and he said: 'Welcome to you! What an excellent brother and Prophet.' Then we came to the fourth heaven and the same exchange took place. I came to Idris, peace be upon him, and greeted him, and he said: 'Welcome to you! What an excellent brother and Prophet.' Then we came to the fifth heaven and the same exchange took place. I came to Harun, peace be upon him, and greeted him, and he said: 'Welcome to you! What an excellent brother and Prophet.' Then we came to the sixth heaven and the same exchange took place. I came to Musa, peace be upon him, and greeted him, and he said: 'Welcome to you! What an excellent brother and Prophet.' What I passed him, he wept, and it was said: 'Why are you weeping?' He said: 'O Lord, this young man whom You have sent after me, more of his Ummah will enter Paradise than from my nation, and they will be more virtuous than them.' Then we came to the seventh heaven and a similar exchange took place. I came to Ibrahim, peace be upon him, and greeted him, and he said: 'Welcome to you! What an excellent son and Prophet.' Then I was taken up to the Oft-Frequented House (Al-Bait al-Ma'mur) and I asked Jibra'il about it, and he said: 'This is Al-Bait al-Ma'mur in which seventy thousand angels pray everyday, and when they leave it they never come back.' Then I was taken up to Sidrah Al-Muntaha (the Lote-Tree of the Utmost Boundary). Its fruits were like Qilal [2] of Hajar and its leaves were like the ears of elephants. At its base were four rivers: Two hidden rivers and two manifest rivers. I asked Jibril (About them) and he said: 'The two hidden ones are in paradise, and the two manifest ones are the Euphrates and the Nile.' Then fifty prayers were enjoined upon me. I came to Musa and he said: 'What happened?' I said: 'Fifty prayers have been enjoined upon me.' He said: 'I know more about the people than you. I tried hard with the Children of Israel. Your Ummah will never be able to bear that. Go back to your Lord and ask Him to reduce it for you.' So I went back to my Lord and asked Him to reduce it, and He made it forty. Then I went back to Musa, peace be upon him, and he said: 'What happened?' I said: 'He made it forty.' He said to me something similar to what he said the first time, so I went back to my Lord and He made it thirty. I came to Musa, peace be upon him, and told him, and he said to me something similar to what he said the first time, so I went back to my Lord and he made it twenty, then ten, then five. I came to Musa, peace be upon him, and he said to me something like he had said the first time, but I said: 'I feel too shy before my Lord to go back to Him.' Then it was called out: 'I have decreed (the reward for) My obligation, and I have reduced the burden for My slaves and I will give a ten-fold reward for each good deed.'" [1] It is like this here, while it is Jibra'il the first time it appears in this narration, and Jibra'il is often used in the Hadith literature. [2] Plural of Qullah

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  سألت أبي عن حديث رواه يونس عن الزهري عن أنس عن أبي ذر عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في المعراج ورواه قتادة عن أنس عن مالك بن صعصعة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقيل لأبي أيهما أشبه قال أنا لا أعدل بالزهري أحدا من أهل عصره ثم قال إني أرجو أن يكون جميعا صحيحين وقال مرة حديث الزهري أصح قلت لأبي وقد اختلفوا على الزهري قال نعم منهم من يقول عن الزهري عن أنس عن أبي بن كعب والزهري عن أنس عن أبي ذر أصح

  machine translationI asked my father about a hadith that Yūnus narrated from al-Zuhrī, from Anas, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, concerning the Ascension (al-miʿrāj), and that Qatādah narrated from Anas, from Mālik b. Ṣaʿṣaʿah, from the Prophet ﷺ. It was said to my father: which of the two is closer? He said: I do not set anyone of the people of his era level with al-Zuhrī. Then he said: I hope that both are sound. Another time he said: the hadith of al-Zuhrī is more sound. I said to my father: they differed regarding al-Zuhrī. He said: Yes, some of them say, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas, from Ubayy b. Kaʿb, but al-Zuhrī from Anas from Abū Dharr is more sound. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 448
• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه الزهري عن أنس حدث به عنه عقيل ويونس واختلف عن يونس فقال أبو ضمرة عن يونس عن أبي وأحسب سقط عليه ذر فجعله عن أبي بن كعب ووهم فيه وروى هذا الحديث قتادة عن أنس بن مالك عن مالك بن صعصعة وأتى به بطوله وروى بعضه شعبة عن قتادة عن أنس عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قصة النهرين حدث به إبراهيم بن طهمان عن شعبة ويشبه أن تكون الأقاويل كلها صحاحا لأن رواتهم أثبات

  machine translationAl-Zuhrī narrates it from Anas; ʿUqayl and Yūnus related it from him. There is disagreement about Yūnus: Abū Ḍamrah said, from Yūnus, from Abū, and I think that "Dharr" dropped out for him, so he made it from Ubayy b. Kaʿb and was mistaken in it. Qatādah also narrated this hadith from Anas b. Mālik, from Mālik b. Ṣaʿṣaʿah, and he brought it in full. Shuʿbah narrated part of it from Qatādah, from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ, the story of the two rivers; Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān related it from Shuʿbah. It seems that all the accounts are sound, because their narrators are reliable (athbāt). Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 448

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3342Sahih Muslim 162bSahih Muslim 163Musnad Ahmad 17836Sahih Ibn Hibban 48Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 345

Narrators

1. 1
   Mālik b. Ṣaʿṣaʿah al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   مَالِك بْن صَعْصَعَة الأَنْصَارِيصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī

   Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AH
   هِشَامٌ الدَّسْتُوَائِيُّثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدر
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH.
   يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة .
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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