32- Abu 'Abdullah al-Maqdisi, the Hadith master and critic Muhammad bin 'Abd al-Wahid (1), informed us, 'Abdullah Ibn Dahbal bin 'Ali bin Karah al-Harimi narrated to us in Baghdad, that Abu Ghalib Ahmad bin al-Hasan bin Ahmad bin al-Banna informed them, al-Hasan bin 'Ali al-Jawhari informed us, Muhammad bin al-Muzaffar Ibn Musa the Hadith master informed us, Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Khalid the Judge narrated to us, Sa'id bin Muhammad narrated to us,
Salm bin Qutayba narrated to us, Shu'ba narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from 'Abdullah bin Khalifa, from 'Umar bin al-Khattab [may God be pleased with him], from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, regarding the statement of God Almighty [18/A]:
{The Most Merciful rose over the Throne} [Ta-Ha: 5]
He said: "Until a creaking is heard like the creaking of a saddle" (2).
A Sahih (Authentic) hadith; its narrators meet the condition of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.
33- And Abu 'Abdullah al-Maqdisi informed us, Abu Ja'far Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Nasr bin Abi al-Fath informed us - in Isfahan -,
Notes
- (1) He is al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī.
- (2) Al-Ḍiyāʾ recorded it in "Al-Mukhtāra" (154), and al-Khaṭīb (1/295), both of them by way of Muḥammad b. Muẓaffar in "Gharāʾib Shuʿba". And Ibn Mājah recorded it by way of Shuʿba as Mawquf in "Al-Tafsir", as mentioned by al-Mizzī in "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" (14/456). The mentioned authentication is by al-Ḍiyāʾ, and it is not in the published edition of "Al-Mukhtāra". And ʿAbdullāh was not narrated from by the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim), and Salm was not narrated from by Muslim. Al-Khaṭīb narrated, from al-Barqānī, from al-Dāraquṭnī: (The judge [al-Qāḍī] was alone in narrating it). Al-Barqānī said: The judge erred; the hadith of Salm is from Isrāʾīl, not from Shuʿba, and the hadith of Shuʿba is Mawquf. There is much disagreement in the Chain of transmission between being Marfu', Mawquf, and Mursal, and regarding the condition of its Successor (Tabi'i) narrators. The correct view is that it is a hadith that is used as evidence in any case, and it was narrated by Shuʿba and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī as you have seen, and as will come.
