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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2214

What Has Been Related About The Prophet's ﷺ Saying: The Hour And I Have Been Dispatched Like These Two" Meaning The Index And Middle Fingers"

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حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ أَنْبَأَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

بُعِثْتُ أَنَا وَالسَّاعَةَ كَهَاتَيْنِ وَأَشَارَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ بِالسَّبَّابَةِ وَالْوُسْطَى فَمَا فَضْلُ إِحْدَاهُمَا عَلَى الأُخْرَى

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān
  2. Abū Dāwud
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. Qatādah
  5. Anas
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"The Hour and I were dispatched like these two" - and Abu Dawud(a narrator) indicated with his index and middle fingers- so, how much more(in length) is one then the other.

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Narrators

  1. محمود بن غيلان العدوي
  2. أبو داود الطيالسي
  3. شعبة بن الحجاج العتكي
  4. قتادة بن دعامة السدوسي
  5. أنس بن مالك الأنصاري