al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8715

Translation

✧ 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

Sunan Ibn Majah 4108

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Mustawrid b. Shaddād al-Fihrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 45 AH
   المُسْتَوْرِد بن شَدَّاد الفِهْرِيّله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْهَمْدَانِيِّثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUbaydullāh b. Abī Jaʿfar al-Kinānī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 132 AH or 134 AH or 135 AH or 136 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyā b. Ayyūb

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 163 AH, 168 AH, also said 167 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَصدوق ربما أخطأ
   حدثني
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Ṣāliḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq) but made many mistakes; reliable (thabt) in his written book; there was heedlessness (ghaflah) in himd. 222 AH, or 223 AH
   عبد الله بن صالح المصريصدوق كثير الغلط ، ثبت في كتابه ، وكانت فيه غفلة
   نا
6. 6
   Muṭṭalib b. Shuʿayb b. Ḥayyān al-Marwazī

   d. 282 AH
   مطلب بن شعيب بن حيان المروزي
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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