176 - And Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ahwāzī narrated to us, he said: Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us, he said: Ḥamza al-Zayyāt narrated to us, from Abū al-Mukhtār al-Ṭāʾī, from the nephew of al-Ḥārith al-Aʿwar, from al-Ḥārith, from ʿAlī, he said: "The straight Path (Sirat): the Book of God—exalted is His mention (1)."
177 - Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ahwāzī narrated to us, he said: Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us, he said: Sufyān narrated to us — (h) — and Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī narrated to us, he said: Mahrān narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Manṣūr, from Abū Wāʾil, he said: ʿAbd Allāh said: "The straight Path (Sirat): the Book of God (2)."
178 - Maḥmūd ibn Khidāsh al-Ṭālaqānī narrated to me, he said: Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ruʾāsī narrated to us, he said: ʿAlī and al-Ḥasan, the two sons of Ṣāliḥ, both narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh: {Guide us to the straight Path (Sirat)}, he said: "Islam." He said: "It is wider than what is between the heaven and the earth (3)."
Notes
- (1) Report 176 — It is the preceding hadith through the two chains before it, with the same meaning. However, here it is Mawquf (attributed to a Companion), halting at Ibn Abī Ṭālib. The chain of transmission to him has collapsed just like chain 174, because of al-Ḥārith al-Aʿwar and his nephew. As for those below them, Abū al-Mukhtār al-Ṭāʾī and Ḥamza were mentioned in 174, and Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī and Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq were mentioned in 159.
- (2) Report 177 — This is Mawquf (attributed to a Companion), from the words of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd. Al-Ṭabarī narrated it via two chains to Sufyān, who is al-Thawrī. As for the first of them: Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq from Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī from Sufyān al-Thawrī — its chain of transmission is Sahih (Authentic), with no criticism regarding it. As for the second of them: Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī from Mihrān, who is Ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAṭṭār — we have explained in chain 11 that in Mihrān's narration from al-Thawrī there is confusion, but here a reliable Hadith master, Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, corroborated his narration from him. Al-Thawrī narrated it from Manṣūr, who is Ibn al-Muʿtamir al-Kūfī, a reliable, firm authority without any disagreement. Abū Wāʾil is Shaqīq ibn Salama al-Asadī, one of the senior reliable Successors (Tabi'i); Ibn Maʿīn said: "Reliable, someone like him is not questioned."
This report was narrated by al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak 2:258 from the route of ʿUmar ibn Saʿd Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥaḍramī from al-Thawrī, with this chain of transmission. He said: "This hadith is Sahih (Authentic) according to the condition of the two Sheikhs, though they did not record it," and al-Dhahabī concurred with him. It was also mentioned by al-Suyūṭī 1:15 and al-Shawkānī 1:13.
- (3) Report 178 — This is Mawquf (attributed to a Companion), halting at Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh. Its chain of transmission is Sahih (Authentic): Maḥmūd ibn Khidāsh — with a kasra on the dotted khāʾ, a fatḥa on the undotted dāl, and ending with a dotted shīn — al-Ṭālaqānī: a reliable narrator among the truthful; he died on Wednesday, 14 Shaʿbān, in the year 250 AH, as in al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr by al-Bukhārī: 247. Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ruʾāsī: a reliable, firm, and intelligent narrator; Aḥmad and other Hadith masters narrated from him. Al-Ḥasan and ʿAlī, the two sons of Ṣāliḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy: both are reliable, and they are twin brothers. Whoever criticized al-Ḥasan did so without proof, and we have attested to his reliability in al-Musnad: 2403, and his brother's in: 220. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib, whose mother is Zaynab al-Ṣughrā, the daughter of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib: a reliable Successor (Tabi'i), and there is no valid argument for anyone who criticized him.
The report was narrated by al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak 2:258–259, from the route of Abū Nuʿaym from al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ — alone — with this chain of transmission. He said: "This hadith has a Sahih (Authentic) chain of transmission, though they did not record it," and al-Dhahabī concurred with him. It was also mentioned by Ibn Kathīr 1:50, al-Suyūṭī 1:15, and al-Shawkānī 1:13.
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