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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1555

What Has Been Related About The Saraya (Military Unit)

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الأَزْدِيُّ الْبَصْرِيُّ وَأَبُو عَمَّارٍ وَغَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ خَيْرُ الصَّحَابَةِ أَرْبَعَةٌ وَخَيْرُ السَّرَايَا أَرْبَعُمِائَةٍ وَخَيْرُ الْجُيُوشِ أَرْبَعَةُ آلاَفٍ وَلاَ يُغْلَبُ اثْنَا عَشَرَ أَلْفًا مِنْ قِلَّةٍ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ يُسْنِدُهُ كَبِيرُ أَحَدٍ غَيْرُ جَرِيرِ بْنِ حَازِمٍ وَإِنَّمَا رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مُرْسَلاً وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ حِبَّانُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْعَنَزِيُّ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَرَوَاهُ اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مُرْسَلاً

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Azdī al-Baṣrī and ʾAbū ʿAmmār Waghayr Wāḥid
  2. Wahb b. Jarīr
  3. his father
  4. Yūnus b. Yazīd
  5. al-Zuhrī
  6. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah
  7. Ibn ʿAbbās

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The best companions are four, the best Saraya (military unit) is four hundred, the best army is four thousand, and twelve thousand will not be beaten due to being too few." This Hadith is Hasan Gharib, it was not narrated with a chain by anyone important besides Jarir bin Hazim, and this Hadith was only reported from Az-Zuhri, from the Prophet ﷺ in Mursal form. Hibban bin 'Ali Al-'Anazi reported it from 'Uqail, from Az-Zuhri, from 'Ubaidullah, from 'Ibn Abbas, from the Prophet ﷺ, and Al-Laith bin Sa'd reported it from Sa'd, from 'Uqail, from Az-Zuhri, from the Prophet ﷺ in the Mursal form.

Notes

  • هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ يُسْنِدُهُ كَبِيرُ أَحَدٍ غَيْرُ جَرِيرِ بْنِ حَازِمٍ وَإِنَّمَا رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مُرْسَلاً. وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ حِبَّانُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْعَنَزِيُّ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم. وَرَوَاهُ اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مُرْسَلاً

    machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb hadith. Hardly anyone of note narrates it as a connected chain (musnad) other than Jarīr b. Ḥāzim. This hadith was only narrated from al-Zuhrī from the Prophet ﷺ as a mursal report. Ḥibbān b. ʿAlī al-ʿAnazī narrated it from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from the Prophet ﷺ. And al-Layth b. Saʿd narrated it from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from the Prophet ﷺ as a mursal report.

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abū DaʾūdRemains Silentin جامع الترمذي, p. 1656hadithunlocked
Ahmad Muhammad ShakirSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

  • Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

    مرسل أشبه لا يحتمل هذا الكلام يكون كلام النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقلت لأبي فسمع حبان من عقيل بن خالد قال نعم لا أعلم من العراقيين من سمع من عقيل إلا حبان بن علي أخو مندل ومخلد بن الحسين

    machine translationIt is a mursal report (mursal) that is more likely correct; these words cannot be the words of the Prophet ﷺ. I said to my father: Did Ḥibbān hear from ʿUqayl b. Khālid? He said: Yes. I do not know of any of the Iraqis who heard from ʿUqayl except Ḥibbān b. ʿAlī, the brother of Mandal, and Mukhallad b. al-Ḥusayn.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 1656
  • Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

    صحيح على شرط الشيخين

    machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ), meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 1656
  • Dāraquṭnī

    يرويه أبو سلمة العاملي عن الزهري عن أنس وأبو سلمة هذا عندنا هو الحكم بن عبد الله بن خطاف وهو متروك الحديث وروي عن عباد بن كثير عن عقيل عن الزهري عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله عن ابن عباس والمحفوظ عن الزهري المرسل

    machine translationAbū Salamah al-ʿĀmilī narrates it from al-Zuhrī, from Anas. This Abū Salamah, in our view, is al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbdillāh b. Khaṭṭāf, and he is abandoned in ḥadīth (matrūk al-ḥadīth). It is also narrated from ʿAbbād b. Kathīr, from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdillāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās. But what is preserved (maḥfūẓ) from al-Zuhrī is the mursal version.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 1656
  • al-Tirmidhi

    هذا حديث حسن غريب

    machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 1656
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  • al-Tirmidhi

    حسن غريب لا يسنده كبير أحد غير جرير بن حازم وإنما روي مرسلا

    machine translationGood (ḥasan), gharīb. Hardly anyone of note narrates it as a connected chain (musnad) other than Jarīr b. Ḥāzim; it was only narrated as a mursal report.

    in سنن الترمذي, p. 1555

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 2827al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6721Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 9793al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18551Musnad Abi Ya'la 2588

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
    عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَثقة فقيه ثبت
    عن
  3. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. Yūnus
    Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
    يُونُسَ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
    عن
  5. Jarīr b. Ḥāzim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), but there is weakness in his narrations from Qatādah, and he has errors (awhām) when he narrates from memoryd. 170 AH or 177 AH or 179 AH, also said: 167 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة ، لكن في حديثه عن قتادة ضعف ، وله أوهام إذا حدث من حفظه
    عن
  6. Wahb b. Jarīr
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 206 AH, or 207 AH
    وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍثقة
    حدثنا
  7. al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 244 AH
    وَأَبُو عَمَّارٍثقة
    حدثنا
  8. al-Tirmidhī
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
    التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Commentaries

Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)

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