al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4063
✧ ʿAlī b. Saʿīd b. Bashīr al-Rāzī
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيٌّ قَالَ: نَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ أَبِي زَيْدٍ الدَّبَّاغُ قَالَ: نَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ أُمَّتِي مَثَلُ الْمَطَرِ، لَا يُدْرَى أَوَّلُهُ خَيْرٌ أَوْ آخِرُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī
- al-Ḥusayn b. Abū Zayd al-Dabbāgh
- ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ
- Mālik b. Dīnār
- al-Ḥasan
- Anas b. Mālik
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The likeness of my ummah is only the likeness of rain: it is not known whether its beginning is better or its end.
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Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), devout (ʿābid)d. 123 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH, or 130 AHمَالِكِ بْنِ دِينَارٍصدوق عابدعن
- عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍنا
- d. 254 AHالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ أَبِي زَيْدٍ الدَّبَّاغُنا
- d. 299 AHعَلِيٌّحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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