al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6334
✧ Muhammad b. Ali al-Sa'igh al-Makki
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حَدَّثَنَا الصَّائِغُ، ثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْجُدِّيُّ، ثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَفِرُّ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ كَمَثَلِ الثَّعْلَبِ تَطْلُبُهُ الْأَرْضُ بِدَيْنٍ، فَجَعَلَ يَسْعَى حَتَّى إِذَا عَيِيَ وَانْبَهَرَ دَخَلَ جُحْرَهُ، [ فَقَالَتْ لَهُ الْأَرْضُ: يَا ثَعْلَبُ، دَيْنِي ]، فَخَرَجَ، وَلَهُ حُصَاصٌ، فَلَمْ يَزَلْ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى انْقَطَعَتْ عُنُقُهُ، فَمَاتَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ṣāʾigh
- Ḥafṣ b. ʿUmar al-Juddī
- Muʿādh b. Muḥammad al-Hudhalī
- Yūnus b. ʿUbayd
- al-Ḥasan
- Samurah b. Jundub
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The example of one who flees from death is like the example of a fox that the earth demands for a debt, so it kept running until, when it became tired and out of breath, it entered its burrow, [and the earth said to it, 'O fox, my debt,'] so it came out with a rapid gait, and it kept doing that until its neck broke and it died.
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Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, also said 59 AH,, also said beginning of 60 AH, also said between 55 AH and 60 AHسَمُرَةُ بْنُ جُنْدُبٍصحابي 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
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), virtuous, scrupulous.d. 138 AH, or 139 AH, or 140 AHيُونُسَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍثقة ثبت فاضل ورععن
- مُعَاذُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ج٦ / ص٢٥٣الْهُذَلِيُّحدثنا
- حَفْصُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْجُدِّيُّحدثنا
- d. 291 AHالصَّائِغُحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.