al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 907
✧ What is the name of one person?
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنْبَاعِ رَوْحُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عُفَيْرٍ ثنا عَطَّافُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْأَرْقَمِ
عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْأَرْقَمِ وَكَانَ بَدْرِيًّا وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ آوَى فِي دَارِهِ عِنْدَ الصَّفَا حَتَّى تَكَامَلُوا أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا مُسْلِمِينَ وَكَانَ آخِرُهُمِ إِسْلَامًا عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ فَلَمَّا كَانُوا أَرْبَعِينَ خَرَجُوا إِلَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ قَالَ جِئْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ لِأُوَدِّعَهُ وَأَرَدْتُ الْخُرُوجَ إِلَى بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ فَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «أَيْنَ تُرِيدُ؟» قُلْتُ أُرِيدُ بَيْتَ الْمَقْدِسِ قَالَ «وَمَا يُخْرِجُكُ إِلَيْهِ أَفِي تِجَارَةٍ؟» قُلْتُ لَا وَلَكِنِّي أُصَلِّي فِيهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «صَلَاةٌ هَهُنَا خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ صَلَاةٍ ثَمَّ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Zinbāʿ Rawḥ b. al-Faraj
- Saʿīd b. ʿUfayr
- ʿAṭṭāf b. Khālid
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Arqam from his father
✧ From his grandfather al-Arqam, who was a Badri. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ took shelter in his house near al-Safa until forty men had become Muslims, the last of them to accept Islam being Umar b. al-Khattab ؓ. When they reached forty, they went out to the polytheists. He said: I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to bid him farewell, intending to go to Jerusalem. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "Where do you intend to go?" I said, "I intend to go to Jerusalem." He said, "What takes you there? Is it for trade?" I said, "No, but I wish to pray there." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A prayer here is better than a thousand prayers there."
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