Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2297
What Has Been Related About Witnesses And Which Of Them Are Best
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حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ آدَمَ ابْنُ بِنْتِ أَزْهَرَ السَّمَّانِ حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ حَدَّثَنَا أُبَىُّ بْنُ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ حَدَّثَنِي خَارِجَةُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ حَدَّثَنِي زَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
خَيْرُ الشُّهَدَاءِ مَنْ أَدَّى شَهَادَتَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسْأَلَهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Bishr b. Ādam Ibn Bint Azhar al-Sammān
- Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb
- Uba b. ʿAbbās b. Sahl b. Saʿd
- Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Ḥazm
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
- Khārijah b. Zayd b. Thābit
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū ʿAmrah
- Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"The best of witnesses is the one who gives his testimony before being asked for it."
Notes
قَالَ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ
machine translationHe said: This is a good (ḥasan), gharīb hadith from this route.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
حديث حسن غريب من هذا الوجه
machine translationA good and unfamiliar (ḥasan gharīb) hadith by this route.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 2481 - 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. 2481 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب من هذا الوجه
machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb) by this route.
in سنن الترمذي, p. 2297
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 1719Sunan Abi Dawud 3596Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2295Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2296Musnad Ahmad 17040al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20660
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 68 AH or 72 AH or 78 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّصحابي مشهورحدثني
- Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: He did not have companionship (ṣuḥbah) with the Prophet.d. between 101 AH and 110 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرَةَقال ابن أبي حاتم : ليست له صحبةحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist.d. 99 AH, or 100 AH.خَارِجَةُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه.حدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), noble (sharīf)d. 96 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَثقة شريفحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 100 AH, or 110 AH, or 117 AH, or 120 AH, also said: 126 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍثقة عابدحدثني
- there is weakness in himd. between 161 and 170 AHأُبَيُّ بْنُ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍفيه ضعفحدثنا
- and he is truthful (ṣadūq), errs in the hadith of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH, also said: 204 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِوهو صدوق ، يخطئ في حديث الثوريحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), there is softness in him (layyin)d. 254 AHبِشْرُ بْنُ آدَمَ ابْنُ بِنْتِ أَزْهَرَ السَّمَّانِصدوق ، فيه لينحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
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