al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 706
✧ Ahmad b. Ali al-Abbar
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ قَالَ: نَا أُمَيَّةُ قَالَ: نَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ، عَنْ رَوْحِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ، عَنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ. عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
النَّاسُ مَعَادِنُ، خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ خِيَارُهُمْ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ، إِذَا فَقِهُوا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad
- Umayyah
- Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
- Rawḥ b. al-Qāsim
- Suhayl b. Abū Ṣāliḥ
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ People are like mines. The best of them in the pre-Islamic era are the best of them in Islam, if they attain understanding.
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِيهِثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq); his memory deteriorated at the end of his lifed. 138 AH, or: 140 AH, or: 141 AH, in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AHسُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخرهعن
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 141 AH, also said: 50-odd AHرَوْحِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِثقة حافظعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .نا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 228 AH, or 231 AHأُمَيَّةُصدوقنا
- d. 290 AHأَحْمَدُحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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