al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 44
✧ Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yahya al-Dimashqi
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ رَاشِدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:
إِنَّ الْبَيَانَ كُلَّ الْبَيَانِ شُعْبَةٌ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Ḥamzah
- my father
- his father
- Thawr b. Yazīd
- Rāshid b. Saʿd
- ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Eloquence, all eloquence, is a branch of Satan.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه أحمد بن محمد بن يحيى بن حمزة وهو ضعيف
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 44
Narrators
- the well-known Companion (al-ṣaḥābī al-mashhūr)d. Muḥammad b. al-Muthannā and others said: 42 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 43 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 48 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 51 AH. Ṭalḥah al-Kūfī said: 58 AH. And from Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah: 61 AH, or 62 AH. And it is a clear errorعَمْرُو بْن الْعَاص بْن وَائِل السَّهْمِيّالصحابي المشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), frequently narrates mursald. 108 AH, also said: 113 AHرَاشِدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة ، كثير الإرسالعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), except that he held the Qadarī viewd. al-Tirmidhī said: 150 AH. From al-Haytham b. ʿAdī: 151 AH. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā said: I was informed that he died in the year 152 AH. Ibn Saʿd and a group said: 153 AH. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr and others said: 155 AHثَوْرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت ، إلا أنه يرى القدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 180 AH, or 183 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 185 AHأَبِيهِثقة ، رمي بالقدرعن
- أَبِيحدثني
- d. 289 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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