Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 2
✧ The hadith concerning the branches of faith
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو صَالِحٍ الْعَنْبَرُ بْنُ الطَّيِّبِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ ابْنُ ابْنَةِ يَحْيَى بْنِ مَنْصُورٍ الْقَاضِي، حَدَّثَنَا جَدِّي، حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْحَنْظَلِيُّ، وَعَمْرُو بْنُ زُرَارَةَ الْكِلَابِيُّ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ،
عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: " الْإِيمَانُ بِضْعٌ وَسِتُّونَ، أَوْ سَبْعُونَ شُعْبَةً، فَأَرْفَعُهَا قَوْلُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ، وَأَدْنَاهَا إِمَاطَةُ الْأَذَى عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ، وَالْحَيَاءُ شُعْبَةٌ مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ "
Translation
Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū Ṣāliḥ al-ʿAnbar b. al-Ṭayyib b. Muḥammad al-ʿAnbarī, the grandson (through his daughter) of Yaḥyā b. Manṣūr al-Qāḍī, informed us: my grandfather narrated to us: Aḥmad b. Salamah narrated to us: Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥanẓalī and ʿAmr b. Zurārah al-Kilābī narrated to us, both saying: Jarīr narrated to us, from Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ, from ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him,
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From the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who said: "Faith has sixty-some or seventy-some branches. The highest of them is the saying 'There is no god but Allah', and the lowest of them is removing harm from the road, and modesty is a branch of faith."
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Notes
رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحِ، عَنْ زُهَيْرِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ، عَنْ جَرِيرٍ. قَالَ الْإِمَامُ أَحْمَدُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى: " وَهَذَا شَّكٌّ وَقَعَ مِنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ فِي بِضْعٍ وَسِتِّينَ أَوْ فِي بِضْعٍ وَسَبْعِينَ، وَسُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ بِلَالٍ قَالَ: بِضْعٌ وَسِتُّونَ لَمْ يَشُكَّ فِيهِ وَرِوَايَتُهُ أَصَحُّ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالْحَدِيثِ غَيْرَ أَنَّ بَعْضَ الرُّوَاةِ عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ رَوَاهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ شَكٍّ " قَالَ: " بِضْعٌ وَسَبْعُونَ أَفْضَلُهَا قَوْلُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ، وَأَدْنَاهَا إِمَاطَةُ الْأَذَى وَالْعَظْمِ عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ، وَالْحَيَاءُ شُعْبَةٌ مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ "
machine translationMuslim narrated it in al-Ṣaḥīḥ, from Zuhayr b. Ḥarb, from Jarīr. Imam Aḥmad, may Allah the Exalted have mercy on him, said: "This doubt, whether 'sixty-some' or 'seventy-some', occurred from Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ. Sulaymān b. Bilāl said 'sixty-some' without doubting it, and his narration is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ) according to the scholars of hadith, except that some of the narrators from Suhayl narrated it without doubt." He said: "Seventy-some; the best of them is the saying 'There is no god but Allah', and the lowest of them is removing harm and bones from the road, and modesty is a branch of faith."
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