What is Salvation?
1 - Dāwūd ibn ʿAmr ibn Zuhayr al-Ḍabbī narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Zahr, from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, from al-Qāsim, from Abū Umāma, who said: ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir said: I said: "O Messenger of God! What is salvation?" He said: "Control your tongue, let your house be sufficient for you, and weep over your sin." (1)
Notes
- (1) Its chain of transmission is very weak, but the hadith is authentic:
It was reported by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in Al-Riqqa wa-al-Bukāʾ no. (179) with my editing, with the same chain of transmission and text.
Note: In Al-Riqqa it occurred as: "Khalaf ibn 'Umar ibn Zuhayr", and the correct reading is: "Dāwūd ibn 'Amr ibn Zuhayr". Ibn Abī al-Dunyā reported it in Al-Ṣamt wa-Ḥifẓ al-Lisān under no. (2), stating: Dāwūd ibn 'Amr and Sa'dawayh narrated to us, from Ibn al-Mubārak; and this is in his Zuhd under no. (134), with it.
And it was reported via the route of Ibn Abī al-Dunyā by: Ibn al-Bannāʾ in Al-Risāla al-Mughniya fī al-Sukūt wa-Luzūm al-Buyūt under no. (15 - with my editing / Dar al-Tala'i' ed.).
And the hadith was reported via the route of Ibn al-Mubārak by: al-Tirmidhī (2406), Aḥmad in his Musnad (5/259), his son in Zawāʾid al-Zuhd (p. 15), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in Al-Zuhd no. (3), al-Khaṭṭābī in Al-ʿUzla (17–18, Maktabat al-Zahrāʾ ed. / Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb was dropped from it), Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī in Al-Sunan al-Wāridah fī al-Fitan no. (119), Qiwām al-Sunnah al-Aṣbahānī in Al-Targhīb wa-al-Tarhīb under nos. (1686, 1704), al-Bayhaqī in Al-Shuʿab (4930), Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Ḥilya (2/9, 8/175), al-Shajarī in his Amālī (2/156), and al-Silafī in Muʿjam al-Safar (p. 119 - no. 363 / Dar al-Fikr ed.). And Ibn al-Mubārak was corroborated in it; he was corroborated by:
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