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Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 247

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

أَشْعَرُ كَلِمَةٍ تَكَلَّمَتْ بِهَا الْعَرَبُ كَلِمَةُ لَبِيدٍ أَلا كُلُّ شَيْءٍ مَا خَلا اللَّهَ بَاطِلٌ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAlī b. Ḥujr
  2. Sharīk
  3. ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr
  4. Abū Salamah
  5. Abū Hurayrah
  6. al-Nabī ﷺ

“As the Prophet said ﷺ:‘The most poetic saying spoken by the Arabs is the saying of Labid: “Everything but Allah is surely futile!'”

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  • Dāraquṭnī

    الصحيح عن عبد الملك عن أبي سلمة عن أبي هريرة

    machine translationThe sound (ṣaḥīḥ) version is from ʿAbd al-Malik, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah.

    in الشمائل المحمدية, p. 248

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
    أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), eloquent, a scholar; his memory changed and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH or 136 AH
    عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍثقة , فصيح عالم ، تغير حفظه وربما دلس
    عن
  4. Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AH
    شَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدع
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, also said: 241 AH, also said: 243 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  6. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
    التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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