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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2295

What Has Been Related About Witnesses And Which Of Them Are Best

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حَدَّثَنَا الأَنْصَارِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْنٌ حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ الأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

أَلاَ أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ الشُّهَدَاءِ الَّذِي يَأْتِي بِالشَّهَادَةِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسْأَلَهَا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-Anṣārī
  2. Maʿn
  3. Mālik
  4. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Ḥazm
  5. his father
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
  7. Abū ʿAmrah al-Anṣārī
  8. Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī
  9. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"Shall l not inform you of the best of witnesses? The one who comes with his testimony before being asked for it."

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Ahmad Muhammad ShakirSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن الترمذي, p. 2295fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

    وحديث أهل المدينة في هذا الباب حديث صحيح مستعمل لا يدفعه نظر ولا خبر والله المستعان

    machine translationThe hadith of the people of Medina on this topic is a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith that is put into practice; neither reasoning nor any report refutes it. And God is the One whose help is sought.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 2479
  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

    رجح حديث زيد بن خالد لكونه من رواية أهل المدينة

    machine translationHe gave preference to the hadith of Zayd b. Khālid because it is from the narration of the people of Medina.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 2479

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 3766وَعَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَلَا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ الشُّهَدَاءِ؟ الَّذِي يَأْتِي بشهادتِه قبلَ أنْ يسْأَلهَا». رَوَاهُ مُسلم
  • Shahih Muslim 1719أَلاَ أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ الشُّهَدَاءِ الَّذِي يَأْتِي بِشَهَادَتِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسْأَلَهَا

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 3596Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2296Musnad Ahmad 17040al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20660al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20661

Narrators

  1. Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī
    a well-known Companiond. 68 AH or 72 AH or 78 AH
    زَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Abū ʿAmrah
    acceptable (maqbūl)
    أَبِي عَمْرَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّمقبول
    عن
  3. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
    trustworthy (thiqah), noble (sharīf)d. 96 AH
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَثقة شريف
    عن
  4. Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad al-Khazrajī
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 100 AH, or 110 AH, or 117 AH, or 120 AH, also said: 126 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة عابد
    عن
  5. ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad Ibn Ḥazm
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 135 AH, from Ibn al-Athīr: 136 AH. In al-Ṣarīfīnī's book: 144 AH. Also said: 130 AH
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍثقة
    عن
  6. Mālik b. Anas
    The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
    مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
    حدثنا
  7. Maʿn
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 198 AH, or: 199 AH
    مَعْنٌثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  8. Isḥāq b. Mūsā al-Anṣārī
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 244 AH
    الْأَنْصَارِيُّثقة متقن
    حدثنا
  9. 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

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Commentaries

الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)

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