Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2861

Translation

from Ibn Mas'ud who said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed 'Isha, then he turned and took the hand of 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud until he went with him to the wide valley of Makkah. He sat him down, then he drew a line around him. Then he said: 'Do not go beyond your line, for indeed there shall come some men to you, but do not speak to them for they shall not speak to you.'" He said: "Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went to where he wanted to go, and while I was sitting within the line, some men came to me that appeared as if they were from Az-Zut (A dark people, either from North Africa or India. See Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi and An-Nihayah), both their hair and their bodies. I did not see nakedness nor covering. They ended up before me but they did not pass the line. Then they returned toward the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. And when it was near the end of the night, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to me while I was sitting, and he said: "I have been awake watching all night' then he entered into the line with me and lay down on my thigh to sleep. And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would snore when he slept. So while I was sitting there, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was sleeping (with his head resting) on my thigh, there appeared some men wearing white garments, and Allah knows best just how handsome they were. They came towards me, and a group of them sat at the head of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and a group at his feet. Then they said to each other: 'We have not ever seen a slave (of Allah) who was given the likes of what this Prophet has been given. Indeed his eyes sleep but his heart remains awake. His parable is that of a chief who built a castle, then he placed a table-spread in it, and invited the people to eat from his food and drink. So whoever answers his invitation, he eats from his food and drinks from his drink. Whoever does not answer, he is punished - or he said - he is chastised.' Then they alighted and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ awoke at that time, and said: 'I heard what they were saying. Do you know who they were?' I said: 'Allah and His Messenger know better.' He said: 'They were the angels. Do you know the meaning of the parable they stated?' I said: 'Allah and His Messenger know better.' He said: 'The meaning is that Ar-Rahman [Most Blessed and Most High] built Paradise, and He invited His Slaves to it. Whoever replies he shall enter Paradise, and whoever does not reply, he shall be punished or chastised.'"

Notes

• ✧ Abu Isa said: This is a good, authentic, and rare hadith in this context. Abu Tamimah is Al-Hujaymi, and his name is Tarif bin Mujalid. Abu Uthman Al-Nahdi's name is Abd Al-Rahman bin Mull. Sulayman Al-Taymi narrated this hadith, and Mu'tamir, who is Sulayman bin Tarakhan, also narrated it, although he was not of Banu Taym; he merely lived among them, so he was associated with them. Ali said that Yahya bin Sa'id stated, "I have not seen anyone more fearful of Allah, the Exalted, than Sulayman Al-Taymi."

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ وَأَبُو تَمِيمَةَ هُوَ الْهُجَيْمِيُّ وَاسْمُهُ طَرِيفُ بْنُ مُجَالِدٍ وَأَبُو عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيُّ اسْمُهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مُلٍّ وَسُلَيْمَانُ التَّيْمِيُّ قَدْ رَوَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنْهُ مُعْتَمِرٌ وَهُوَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ طَرْخَانَ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ تَيْمِيًّا وَإِنَّمَا كَانَ يَنْزِلُ بَنِي تَيْمٍ فَنُسِبَ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ قَالَ يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ مَا رَأَيْتُ أَخْوَفَ لِلَّهِ تَعَالَى مِنْ سُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّ

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.

• Ibn Khuzaymah

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3113
• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث حسن صحيح غريب من هذا الوجه

  machine translationA good and authentic (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) ḥadīth, strange (gharīb) from this route. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3113
• Maghlaṭay

  على اضطراب في إسناد حديثهما وعلى هذا فلا تقوم بهما حجة

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3113
• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث حسن غريب من هذا الوجه

  machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth from this route. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3113

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 138Sahih al-Bukhari 2013Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 1411al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 392al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4506

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 75 AH, or 81 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, or shortly after it, also said: after the year 95 AH
   أَبِي عُثْمَانَثقة ثبت عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Ṭarīf b. Mujālid al-Hujaymī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 95 AH, or 97 AH, said by al-Wāqidī, or 99 AH
   أَبِي تَمِيمَةَ الْهُجَيْمِيِّثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Jaʿfar b. Maymūn

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
   جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍصدوق يخطئ
   عن
5. 5
   Ibn Abī ʿAdī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 192 AH, or 194 AH
   ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Bashshār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

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

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