al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8715
✧ Mutallib b. Shu'ayb
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وَبِهِ: حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ، عَنِ الْمُسْتَوْرِدِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
مَا مَثَلُ الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا كَمَا يُدْخِلُ أَحَدُكُمْ إِصْبَعَهُ الْبَحْرَ، ثُمَّ يُخْرِجُهَا، فَبِمَ تَرْجِعُ ؟
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb
- ʿUbaydullāh
- Abū Isḥāq al-Hamdānī
- al-Mustawrid
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The likeness of this world in comparison to the Hereafter is only as if one of you dips his finger into the sea and then takes it out—so what does it bring back?
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 45 AHالمُسْتَوْرِد بن شَدَّاد الفِهْرِيّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 126 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 132 AHعُبَيْدِ اللهِثقةعن
- حدثنيtruthful (ṣadūq)d. 163 AH
- ناtruthful (ṣadūq)d. 222 AH
- حدثناd. 282 AH
- d. 360 AH
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