al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8138
✧ What did Dahhak b. Qais rely on?
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حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ سُفْيَانَ الْكِلَابِيِّ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «يَا ضَحَّاكُ مَا طَعَامُكَ؟» قُلْتُ اللَّحْمُ وَاللَّبَنُ قَالَ «ثُمَّ يَصِيرُ إِلَى مَاذَا؟» قُلْتُ ثُمَّ يَصِيرُ إِلَى مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِنَّ اللهَ ﷻ ضَرَبَ مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنِ ابْنِ آدَمَ مَثَلًا لِلدُّنْيَا»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muʿādh b. al-Muthanná
- Musaddad
- Ḥammād b. Zayd
- ʿAlī b. Zayd
- al-Ḥasan
- al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Sufyān al-Kilābī
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "O Dahhak, what is your food?" I said, "Meat and milk." He said, "Then what does it become?" I said, "Then it becomes what you know." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Allah ﷻ has made what comes out of the son of Adam a parable for this world."
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