al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18432
✧ The one whose name is Wathila Wathila bin al-Asqai al-Laythi is known as Abu al-Asqai and also known as Abu Qirsafa and also known as Abu Shaddad used to reside in Damascus, in the Sham region. He is Wathila bin al-Asqai bin Abdul-Aziz bin Abdul-Yaalil bin Nashib bin Ghayra bin Saad bin Layth bin Bakr bin Abda Manat bin Kinana.
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حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ الْجَرْجَرَائِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ أَنَا الْحَارِثُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الشَّامِيُّ عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ قَالَ دَخَلْنَا عَلَى وَاثِلَةَ بْنِ الْأَسْقَعِ فَقُلْنَا
حَدِّثْنَا حَدِيثًا سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ مُعَاذًا وَحُذَيْفَةَ يَسْتَشِيرَانِ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فِي الْمَنْزِلِ فَأَوْمَى إِلَيْهِمَا بِالشَّامِ ثُمَّ اسْتَشَارَاهُ فَأَوْمَى إِلَيْهِمَا بِالشَّامِ ثُمَّ اسْتَشَارَاهُ فَأَوْمَى إِلَيْهِمَا بِالشَّامِ قَالَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ «عَلَيْكُمْ بِالشَّامِ فَإِنَّهَا صَفْوَةُ بِلَادِ اللهِ يَسْكُنُهَا خِيرَتُهُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَمَنْ أَبَى فَلْيَلْحَقْ بِيَمَنِهِ وَلْيَسْقِ بِغُدُرِهِ فَإِنَّ اللهَ قَدْ تَكَفَّلَ لِي بِالشَّامِ وَأَهْلِهِ»
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī
- Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Jarjarāʾī
- ʿAlī b. Thābit
- al-Ḥārith b. Yazīd al-Shāmī
- al-ʿAlāʾ b. Kathīr
- Makḥūl
- Dakhalnā
- Wāthilah b. al-Asqaʿ Faqulnā
✧ Narrate to us a hadith you heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: I heard Mu'adh and Hudhayfah consulting the Prophet ﷺ about where to settle. He gestured toward Sham. Then they consulted him again, and he gestured toward Sham. Then they consulted him again, and he gestured toward Sham. On the third time he said: "You must go to Sham, for it is the choicest of Allah's lands, inhabited by His chosen ones from among His servants. Whoever refuses, let him join his Yemen and drink from its waterholes, for Allah has indeed guaranteed me Sham and its people."
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