What Does Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, Marvel At?
196 - ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim al-Qurashī narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith: Abū ʿUshāna al-Maʿāfirī narrated to me, from ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir, who said: The Messenger of Allah, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "Your Lord, Mighty and Majestic, marvels at a shepherd of sheep on the peak of a mountain crag who calls the Call to prayer (Azan) for Prayer and performs Prayer. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says to His angels: 'Look at this servant of Mine; he calls the Call to prayer (Azan) and performs the Second call (Iqama) for Prayer, fearing Me. I call you to witness that I have forgiven him and admitted him to Paradise.'" (1).
Notes
- (1) A Sahih (Authentic) hadith: transmitted by Abū Dāwūd (1203), al-Nasāʾī (2/20), Aḥmad (4/158), Ibn Ḥibbān (1220 – al-Iḥsān), al-Rūyānī in his Musnad (232), al-Ṭabarānī in his al-Kabīr (vol. 17, no. 301), Ibn Manda in al-Tawḥīd (804), al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (1/405), and Ibn Balbān in al-Maqāṣid al-Saniyya (306), from multiple routes from Ibn Wahb, with it. Its chain of transmission is Sahih (Authentic).
It has other routes: Aḥmad transmitted it (4/145–157) and Qiwām al-Sunna al-Aṣbahānī in al-Ḥujja (no. 270), from two routes from Ibn Lahīʿa, from Abū ʿUshāna, with it.
I say: It was narrated from Ibn Lahīʿa by Qutayba ibn Saʿīd, who is among his old companions who narrated from him before his books were burned, so his hadith from him is Sahih (Authentic), and praise be to God.
His statement: "A mountain splinter (shaẓiyyat al-jabal)": meaning a piece of the mountain, like a boulder. See: al-Nihāya by Ibn al-Athīr (2/476).
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