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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3309

Regarding Surat As-Saff

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلاَمٍ قَالَ

قَعَدْنَا نَفَرٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَتَذَاكَرْنَا فَقُلْنَا لَوْ نَعْلَمُ أَىَّ الأَعْمَالِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ لَعَمِلْنَاهُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى ( سبَّحَ لِلَّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الأَرْضِ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لاَ تَفْعَلُونَ ) قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلاَمٍ فَقَرَأَهَا عَلَيْنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  2. Muḥammad b. Kathīr
  3. al-Awzāʿī
  4. Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
  5. Abū Salamah
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. Salām

“A group of us Companions of the Messenger of Allah sat talking, and we said: ‘If we knew which deed was most beloved to Alllah then we would do it.’ So Allah, Most High, revealed: Whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on the earth glorifies Allah. And He is Almighty, the All-Wise. O you who believe! Why do you say that which you do not do?” Abdullah bin Salam said: “So the Messenger of Allah recited it to us.” Abu Salamah (one of the narrators) said: “So Ibn Salam recited it to us.” Yahya (one of the narrators) said: “So Abu Salamah narrated it to us.” Ibn Kathir said: “So Al-Awza’i recited it to us.” Abdullah said: “So Ibn Kathir recited it to us.”

Notes

  • قَالَ أَبُو سَلَمَةَ فَقَرَأَهَا عَلَيْنَا ابْنُ سَلاَمٍ قَالَ يَحْيَى فَقَرَأَهَا عَلَيْنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ قَالَ ابْنُ كَثِيرٍ فَقَرَأَهَا عَلَيْنَا الأَوْزَاعِيُّ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ فَقَرَأَهَا عَلَيْنَا ابْنُ كَثِيرٍ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَقَدْ خُولِفَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ فِي إِسْنَادِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ وَرَوَى ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ هِلاَلِ بْنِ أَبِي مَيْمُونَةَ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلاَمٍ أَوْ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلاَمٍ وَرَوَى الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ نَحْوَ رِوَايَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ

    machine translationAbū Salamah said: Ibn Salām recited it to us. Yaḥyā said: Abū Salamah recited it to us. Ibn Kathīr said: al-Awzāʿī recited it to us. ʿAbdullāh said: Ibn Kathīr recited it to us. Abū ʿĪsā said: Muḥammad b. Kathīr was contradicted regarding the chain of this hadith from al-Awzāʿī. Ibn al-Mubārak narrated from al-Awzāʿī, from Yaḥyā b. Abī Kathīr, from Hilāl b. Abī Maymūnah, from ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār, from ʿAbdullāh b. Salām, or from Abū Salamah, from ʿAbdullāh b. Salām. Al-Walīd b. Muslim narrated this hadith from al-Awzāʿī similar to the narration of Muḥammad b. Kathīr.

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Ahmad Muhammad ShakirSahih Isnaadfawazahmed0
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānīSound Chainin جامع الترمذي, p. 3632hadithunlocked
al-AlbaniSound Chainin صحيح سنن الترمذي, p. 3309fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • Mubarakpūri

    مسلسل بقراءة سورة الصف

    machine translationA chain in which each narrator recited Sūrat al-Ṣaff in succession (musalsal).

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 3632
  • Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

    صحيح على شرط الشيخين

    machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ), meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs.

    in جامع الترمذي, p. 3632
  • al-Tirmidhi

    خولف محمد بن كثير في إسناده

    machine translationMuḥammad b. Kathīr was contradicted regarding its chain.

    in سنن الترمذي, p. 3309

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْإِسْرَائِيلِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
    أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
    عن
  3. trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AH
    الْأَوْزَاعِيِّثقة جليل
    عن
  5. truthful (ṣadūq), makes many errors (ghalaṭ)d. 216 AH, or 217 AH, or 218 AH, or 219 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍصدوق كثير الغلط
    أخبرنا
  6. trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
    حدثنا
  7. 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

Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)

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