Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 3727
✧ The account of the Kaaba, the Sacred Mosque, and the entire sanctuary
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْقَطَّانُ، حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أبي بُكَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مُجَاهِدًا،
يَقُولُ: " إِنَّمَا سُمِّيَتْ بَكَّةَ لِأَنَّ النَّاسَ يَبُكُّ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا "
Translation
Chain of narrators
machine translationAbū Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Aṣbahānī narrated to us, Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān informed us, Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith narrated to us, Yaḥyā b. Abī Bukayr narrated to us, Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Salamah b. Kuhayl, he said: I heard Mujāhid,
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He said: "It was only called Bakkah because the people jostle one another (yabukku baʿḍuhum baʿḍan)."
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