al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6271
✧ Muhammad b. Ali al-Sa'igh al-Makki
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، ثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الشَّافِعِيُّ، ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ شَقِيقٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
لَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا خَلِيلًا لَاتَّخَذْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ خَلِيلًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿAlī
- Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī
- Sufyān
- al-Aʿmash
- Shaqīq
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ If I were to take a close friend, I would have taken Abu Bakr as a close friend.
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- Dāraquṭnī
الصحيح حديث الأعمش عن عبد الله بن مرة
machine translationThe sound (ṣaḥīḥ) report is the hadith of al-Aʿmash from ʿAbdullāh b. Murrah.
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 6271
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- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHشَقِيقٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 237 AH, also said: 238 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الشَّافِعِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- d. 291 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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