185 - Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to me, he said: Ibn Wahb narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam said regarding: "{Guide us to the straight Path (Sirat)}": "Islam (1)."
186 - Al-Muthannā narrated to us, he said: Abū Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, he said: Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to me, that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr narrated to him, from his father, from Nawwās ibn Samʿān al-Anṣārī, from the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, that he said: "God has set forth a parable of a straight Path (Sirat)." And the Path (Sirat) is Islam.
187 - Al-Muthannā narrated to us, he said: Ādam al-ʿAsqalānī narrated to us, he said: Al-Layth narrated to us, from Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from his father, from Nawwās ibn Samʿān al-Anṣārī, from the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, the like thereof (2).
Notes
- (1) Narration 185 - This is from the words of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam, and Ibn Kathīr (1/51) quoted it without attribution. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd is a late narrator, among the followers of the Successors; he died in the year 182. He is very weak (ḍaʿīf jiddan); I explained his weakness in the hadith of al-Musnad: 5723, and it suffices regarding him what Ibn Khuzayma said: "He is not among those whose hadith the people of knowledge cite as proof, due to his poor memory; he is a man whose craft is worship and asceticism, not one of the stalwarts of hadith."
- (2) Hadiths 186, 187 - Al-Ṭabarī narrated it from his teacher "al-Muthannā" via two chains of transmission, the first of which is higher in degree than the second: between al-Muthannā and Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ in the first of them is one teacher, and in the second of them are two teachers.
As for al-Muthannā, the teacher of al-Ṭabarī: he is al-Muthannā ibn Ibrāhīm al-Āmulī; al-Ṭabarī narrates from him frequently in Tafsir and History. And Abū Ṣāliḥ, in the first chain: is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Miṣrī, the scribe of al-Layth ibn Saʿd, who accompanied him for twenty years. He is trustworthy, and whoever criticized him regarding some of his hadiths from al-Layth did so without proof. He has a good biography in Tahdhīb, as well as in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl by Ibn Abī Ḥātim (2/2/86-87), and Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ (1/351-353). ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ was born in the year 137 and died in the year 222. His birth date occurred in Tahdhīb as (173), which is a typographical error; the correct date is in Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ. And Ādam al-ʿAsqalānī, in the second chain: is Ādam ibn Abī Iyās, and he is trustworthy, reliable, devout, from the best of God's servants, as Abū Ḥātim said. Al-Layth: is Ibn Saʿd, the Imam of the people of Egypt. Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ, in both chains: is al-Ḥimṣī, one of the prominent scholars and the judge of Andalusia, trustworthy; whoever criticized him was mistaken. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr — both names in diminutive form — al-Ḥaḍramī al-Ḥimṣī: a trustworthy Successor. His father: was among the senior Successors, who lived during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings of God be upon him). He is trustworthy, famous for knowledge, and al-Ṭabarī mentioned him in Ṭabaqāt al-Fuqahāʾ. Al-Nawwās — with a fatḥa on the nūn and a shadda on the wāw — ibn Samʿān al-Kilābī: a well-known Companion.
And this hadith is an abridgment of a long hadith, narrated by Aḥmad in al-Musnad: 17711 (vol. 4, p. 182 Ḥalabī edition) from al-Ḥasan ibn Siwār from al-Layth ibn Saʿd from Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ, with it. Ibn Kathīr (1/51) quoted it from the narration of al-Musnad, saying: "And likewise Ibn Abī Ḥātim and Ibn Jarīr narrated it from the hadith of al-Layth ibn Saʿd, with it. And al-Tirmidhī and al-Nasāʿī both narrated it from ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr ibn Baqiyya from Bujayr ibn Saʿd from Khālid ibn Maʿdān from Jubayr ibn Nufayr from al-Nawwās ibn Samʿān, with it. And it is a Hasan Sahih (good authentic) chain of transmission." Al-Suyūṭī (1/15) and al-Shawkānī (1/13) also attributed it to al-Ḥākim, who "declared it authentic", and to others.
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