al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1846
✧ Ahmad b. Mansur al-Mada'ini
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، قَالَ: نَا سُرَيْجُ بْنُ يُونُسَ قَالَ: نَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْجَزَرِيُّ عَنِ الْوَازِعِ بْنِ نَافِعٍ الْعُقَيْلِيِّ عَنْ سَالِمٍ. عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ
فِي قَوْلِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: كَمِشْكَاةٍ قَالَ: " جَوْفُ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ ". وَ " الزُّجَاجَةُ ": " قَلْبُهُ "، وَ " الْمِصْبَاحُ ": " النُّورُ الَّذِي فِي قَلْبِهِ. تُوقَدُ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ مُبَارَكَةٍ، " الشَّجَرَةُ: إِبْرَاهِيمُ زَيْتُونَةٍ لا شَرْقِيَّةٍ وَلا غَرْبِيَّةٍ: " لَا يَهُودِيٌّ وَلَا نَصْرَانِيٌّ "، ثُمَّ قَرَأَ: مَا كَانَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ يَهُودِيًّا وَلا نَصْرَانِيًّا وَلَكِنْ كَانَ حَنِيفًا مُسْلِمًا وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad
- Surayj b. Yūnus
- ʿAlī b. Thābit al-Jazarī
- al-Wāziʿ b. Nāfiʿ al-ʿUqaylī
- Sālim
- Ibn ʿUmar
✧ Regarding the saying of Allah, Mighty and Majestic: 'like a niche'—he said: 'the inner being of Muhammad ﷺ.' And 'the glass' is 'his heart,' and 'the lamp' is 'the light that is in his heart. It is lit from a blessed tree'—the tree is Ibrahim, 'an olive, neither eastern nor western'—'neither Jew nor Christian.' Then he recited: 'Ibrahim was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a hanif, a Muslim, and he was not of the polytheists.'
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- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- He was reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid) and virtuous (fāḍil); he resembled his father in conduct (hady) and demeanor (samt)d. 105 AH or 106 AH or 107 AH or 108 AH, and the correct one is the firstسَالِمٍكان ثبتا عابدا فاضلا ، كان يشبه بأبيه في الهدي والسمتعن
- d. between 141 AH and 150 AHالْوَازِعِ بْنِ نَافِعٍ الْعُقَيْلِيِّعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he sometimes made mistakesd. between 181 AH and 190 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْجَزَرِيُّصدوق ، ربما أخطأنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. ʿUbayd b. Muḥammad b. Khalaf al-Bazzār and al-Bukhārī said: 235 AH. Others besides them said: 234 AH, and the first is more correct.سُرَيْجُ بْنُ يُونُسَثقة عابدنا
- أَحْمَدُحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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