al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3261
✧ Bakr b. Sahl al-Dimyati
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وَبِهِ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْأَشْجَعِيِّ قَالَ:
كُنَّا نَرْقِي فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، فَقُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، كَيْفَ نَرْقِي فِي ذَلِكَ ؟ فَقَالَ: اعْرِضُوا عَلَيَّ رُقَاكُمْ قَالَ: " لَا بَأْسَ بِالرُّقَى مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ شِرْكٌ
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Chain of narrators
- Muʿāwiyah
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Jubayr b. Nufayr
- his father
- ʿAwf b. Mālik al-Ashjaʿī
✧ We used to perform incantations in the Jahiliyyah, so we said: O Messenger of Allah, how should we perform incantations for that? He said: Present your incantations to me. He said: No harm in incantations as long as they do not involve shirk.
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Narrators
- A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), from those who accepted Islam at the Conquest of Mecca.d. 73 AHعَوْفُ بْنُ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَبِي عَوْفٍصحابي مشهور من مسلمة الفتحعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 75 AH, also said: 80 AH, also said: after itأَبِيهِثقة جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 118 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 152 AH, said by Abū Bakr b. Kāmil, known as Ibn al-Qawwās, 158 AH, 168 AH, 172 AH, said by Abū Marwān b. Ḥayyān, author of the History of al-Andalusمُعَاوِيَةُصدوق له أوهامحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq) but made many mistakes; reliable (thabt) in his written book; there was heedlessness (ghaflah) in himd. 222 AH, or 223 AHعبد الله بن صالح المصريصدوق كثير الغلط ، ثبت في كتابه ، وكانت فيه غفلةنا
- d. 289 AHبكر بن سهل بن إسماعيل الدمياطيحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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