al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 980
✧ Ahmad b. Mas'ud al-Maqdisi
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وَبِهِ: نَا زُهَيْرٌ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ
أَنَّ قَوْمًا جَاءُوا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَخَطَبُوا. فَعَجِبَ النَّاسُ مِنْ كَلَامِهِمْ، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: قُولُوا بِقَوْلِكُمْ، فَإِنَّ مِنَ الْبَيَانِ سِحْرًا، وَتَشْقِيقُ الْكَلَامِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Zuhayr
- Zayd b. Aslam
- Ibn ʿUmar
✧ A group of people came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and delivered speeches. The people were amazed at their speech. The Prophet ﷺ said: Speak as you normally speak, for some eloquence is sorcery, and embellished speech is from Satan.
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- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AHزَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that the narrations of the people of Syria from him are not sound (ghayr mustaqīmah), and he was therefore declared weak (ḍuʿʿifa) because of them.d. 162 AHزُهَيْرٌثقة ، إلا أن رواية أهل الشام عنه غير مستقيمة ، فضعف بسببهانا
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AHعمرو بن أبي سلمة التنيسيصدوق له أوهامنا
- d. between 271 AH and 280 AHأحمد بن مسعود المقدسيحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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