Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1680

Translation

the freed salve of Muhammad bin Al-Qasim said: "Muhammad bin Al-Qasim sent me to Al-Bara' bin 'Azib to ask him about the flag of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: 'It was a black square of Namirah.'"

Notes

• [Abu 'Eisa said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Ali, Al-Harith bin Hassan, and Ibn 'Abbas. [Abu 'Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan Gharib, we don know know of it except from the report of Ibn Abi Za'idah. And Abu Ya'qub Ath-Thaqafi's name is Ishaq bin Ibrahim. 'Ubaidullah bin Musa also reports from him.

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ وَالْحَارِثِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ وَابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ وَأَبُو يَعْقُوبَ الثَّقَفِيُّ اسْمُهُ إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَرَوَى عَنْهُ أَيْضًا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث حسن غريب لا نعرفه إلا من حديث ابن أبي زائدة

  machine translationA good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth; we do not know it except from the ḥadīth of Ibn Abī Zā'idah. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1793
• al-Tirmidhi

  حسنه

  machine translationHe graded it good (ḥasan). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1793
• ابن الملقن

  وأعله ابن القطان بيونس بن عبيد المذكور في إسناده وقال لا يعرف إلا في هذا الحديث

  machine translationIbn al-Qaṭṭān found it defective (aʿallahu) because of Yūnus b. ʿUbayd, who is mentioned in its chain of transmission, and he said: he is not known except in this ḥadīth. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1793
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  سنده واه أبو يعقوب الثقفي اسمه إسحاق بن إبراهيم الكوفي فيه ضعف

  machine translationIts chain is very weak (wāhin). Abū Yaʿqūb al-Thaqafī, whose name is Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Kūfī, has weakness (ḍaʿf). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1793

Same hadith, other wordings

• Sunan Abu Dawud 2591بَعَثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ إِلَى الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ رَايَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَا كَانَتْ فَقَالَ كَانَتْ سَوْدَاءَ مُرَبَّعَةً مِنْ نَمِرَةٍ
• Misykatul Mashabih 3888وَعَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ مَوْلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ: بَعَثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ إِلَى الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ رَايَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: كَانَتْ سَوْدَاءَ مُ

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3274Musnad Ahmad 15954al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3324al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3325al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 13185

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Yūnus b. ʿUbayd mawlá Muḥammad b. al-Qāsim

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   يُونُسُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ مَوْلَى مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِمقبول
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Abū Yaʿqūb al-Thaqafī

   there is weakness in him
   أَبُو يَعْقُوبَ الثَّقَفِيُّفيه ضعف
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyā b. Abī Zāʾidah

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 183, also said 180 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 184 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ أَبِي زَائِدَةَثقة متقن
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Manīʿ

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Mishkat al-Masabih 3888b