al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1763
✧ Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Antaki
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، قَالَ: نَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَ: نَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْفَزَارِيُّ عَنْ مُغِيرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَ. عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ:
الْوِتْرُ لَيْسَ بِحَتْمٍ، وَلَكِنَّهُ سُنَّةُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad
- ʿUbayd b. Hishām
- Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī
- Mughīrah
- Abū Isḥāq
- ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah
- ʿAlī
✧ The witr prayer is not obligatory, but it is the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
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- العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي
عاصم بن ضمرة تكلم فيه غير واحد
machine translationMore than one scholar has spoken against ʿĀṣim b. Ḍamrah.
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 1763
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- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 74 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ ضَمْرَةَصدوقعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and meticulous (mutqin), except that he used to practise concealment (tadlīs), especially from Ibrāhīmd. 132 AH, or: 133 AH, or: 134 AH, or: 136 AHمُغِيرَةَثقة متقن إلا أنه كان يدلس ولا سيما عن إبراهيمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who authored worksd. 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH, or 186 AH, or 187 AH, or 188 AHأَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْفَزَارِيُّثقة حافظ ، له تصانيفنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), he changed at the end of his life and accepted prompting (talqīn)d. between 241 AH and 250 AHعُبَيْدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍصدوق ، تغير في آخر عمره فتلقننا
- d. between 280 AH and 290 AHأَحْمَدُحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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