‫فحات‬‫ص‬

A
C OLL EC T IO N OF P AG E S
C ON T AI N ING
C HA I N S OF T R AN SM I S SI ON
A ND
P A T TER N C HA I NED N AR R AT I O NS

‫في أسانيد ومسلسلات‬

‫شيخ يحيى ب ِن مُح ََّمد ب ِن أَ بِي بكر الملا‬
‫الحنفي الأحسائي‬
SHAYKH YAḤYĀ BINMUḤAMMAD BIN ABĪ BAKR AL-MULLĀ
AL-ḤANAFĪ AL-AḤSĀ’Ī

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A NOTE ABOUT THIS TEXT

This brief text contains a translation of a small number of pattern chained (Musalsal) hadith narrated
by Shaykh Yaḥyā bin Muḥammad al-Mullā, who hails from the historic city of al-Ahsa in Saudi
Arabia. Shaykh Yaḥyā narrates a number of the hadith contained in this text from his teachers, such
as Shaykhs: Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā, Aḥmad Jābir Jibrān, ʿAbdullah bin Saeed al-Lahji,
Ismāʿīl al-Zayn and many others. The bulk of his transmission of Musalsal hadith however comes
from two of his teachers, namely: Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā. Therefore in this work the chain of Shaykh al-Fādānī will predominatly be
cited, and on occasions the chain of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā.

DISCLAIMER: A WORK IN PROGRESS

From amongst the final words of

Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi
In his
Manahil al-Salsalah fi
Al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah

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 The Musalsal hadith contains an intimacy which distinguishes it in comparison to other hadith. When
I see that I have shaken hands with someone who has shaken hands with someone who in turn has
shaken hands with someone going back to the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace),
I visualise my hand connecting to the hand of the Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace).
There is for the soul in this an intimacy and good fortune which is not in the rest of the hadith.
— Imām Ibn al-Jawzī at the beginning of his Musalalat collection

DEDICATION

This work is dedicated to the pious men and women scholars mentioned in the chains of narration,
who transmitted these narrations to us generation after generation. They may have passed away long
ago, but we still remember them and are indebted to them for their sacrifices. May Allah Taala reward
them with the best of rewards and raise their rank in the next world. Amin.

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CONTENTS
MERCY .................................................................................................. 5

HANDSHAKE OF ʿANAS ............................................................................ 9

SEEKING REFUGE ................................................................................... 13

LOVE .................................................................................................. 16

ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS ................................................................................ 18

HANBALI SCHOLARS............................................................................... 21

MECCAN SCHOLARS ............................................................................... 23

ASKING A QUESTION .............................................................................. 26

GRASPING THE BEARD ............................................................................ 28

ENDING WITH DUA ................................................................................ 31

THE TIMES WE LIVE IN .......................................................................... 35

THE CHAPTER OF THE ROW ..................................................................... 39

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF NOBILITY (THE PURE FAMILY) ................ 41

REFERENCING FOR THE FORTY HADITH.................................................... 48

‫إجازة‬................................................................................................... 50

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 MERCY

MERCY

THE PATTERN CHAIN

HADITH OF FIRSTNESS1 ‫اَلمَسَلَسَلَبَالَوَلَيَة‬

It was narrated to us by Shaykh Muḥammad
Yāsīn al-Fādānī who said;
It was narrated to us by Shaykh ʿAli bin Falih
al-Zahiri al-Madani, the recitor Shihāb Aḥmad
bin ʿAbdullāh al-Mukhallalātī al-Shāmī and
then al-Makkī, the most learned astronomer
Shaykh Khalīfah bin Hamd al-Nabhānī, the
recitor Shaykh Ibrahīm bin Musā al-Khizāmī al-
Sudani then al-Makkī, Imām Ḥāfiz Sayyid Abd
al-Hayy bin Abd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī al-Fāsī, and
it is the first hadith which I narrate from them;
from Abū al-Yusr Fālīḥ bin Muḥammad al-
Zāhirī al-Madanī and it is the first; from Sayyid
Muḥammad ʿAli al-Sanusī al-Khattābī al-
Shalafī and it is the first; from Abū Hafs ʿUmar
bin Abd al-Karīm al-Attar and it is the first;
from Imām Muḥammad bin al-Tayyib al-
Maghribī then al-Madanī and it is the first; from
‫ َحدث َنا‬:‫َحدث َنا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال‬
‫لي بِ ْن فالح ال َّظا ِه ِر ّي الْمدنِي والمقرئ‬ ّ ‫بِ ِه ال َّشََََّّّّ ْيخ َع‬
َّ ‫الشَّ ََّااأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه المخللاتي ال َّش َّامي ث‬
‫الْ َم ِّك ّي وال َع َّل َامة الفلكي ال َّشََََََّّّّّّ ْيخ َخليفَ ة بِ ْن حمد‬
‫وسى الخزامي‬ َ ‫الش ْيخ اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ُم‬َّ ‫ال َن َبااني والمقرئ‬
‫السَََََّّّّّوداني ث َّ الْ َم ِّك ّي َوا ْم ِا َماح الْ َح ِاف ال َّسَََََّّّّّ ِّيد َع ْب ُد‬
‫الْ َح ّي بِ ْن َع ْبَّ ُد الْ َكبِير الكتََّّاني الفََّّاسََََََّّّّّّي َو ُه َو اول‬
‫َح ِديث ارويه َعن ُا َعن اْبِي الْ ُي ْسََََّّّّر فالح بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
‫ال َّظا ِه ِر ّي الْ مدنِي َو ُه َو اول َعن ال َّسََََََّّّّّّ ِّيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن‬
‫لي السََّّنوسََّّي الْخ اْبِي الشََّّلفي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي‬ ّ ‫َع‬
‫َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع ْب َّ ُد الْ َكرِي الْ َع َّ َّار َو ُه َو اول َعن‬
‫ا ِما َماح ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ال ّ يب المغربي ث َّ الْ مدنِي َو ُه َو‬
‫اول َعن امَّ َِّا َمَّاح اْبِي الْ َع َّبَّاأ اْ ْحمََّّد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد بِ ْن‬
‫لي بِ ْن‬ ّ ‫َاصر الدرعي َوا ْم ِا َماح اْبِي ا ْما ْ ْس َرار حسن بِ ْن َع‬ ِ ‫ن‬

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This hadith is also known as the Hadith of Mercy and is traditionally narrated to a student by his or her
teacher as the first hadith they hear from them. Shaykh Abd al-Hayy al-Kattānī (Allah have mercy on him) at
the beginning of his work Fihris al-Fahāris (1/93) discussed the reason why the scholars of hadith started their
gatherings with this narration, he said that this hadith is, “Widespread amongst the Muslim community
(ummah), and was paid attention to by the scholars of the science (of hadith). They gave precedence to narrating
it over other hadith so that they would have a continuous pattern, as we have also done. It is also so that the
seeker of knowledge follows it and knows that the basis of knowledge is mercy, love and maintaining ties, not
turning away and breaking (off relations). So if the student is nurtured with this, with him is nurtured the call
to knowledge and mercy…and he is not raised except with the character trait of mercy.”

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Imām Abū ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin ‫اما َماح‬ ِ ‫يحيى العجيمي ا ْل َم ِّك ّي َو ُه َو اول َقا َما نَا ِب ِه‬
Nāṣir al-Darii and Imām Abū al-Asrar Ḥasan
‫زين العابدين ال َّ َب ِر ّي َو ُه َو اول َح ِديث س َََّّّم َعناه ِم ْن ُه‬
bin ʿAli bin Yaḥyā al-Ujaymi al-Makkī and it is
the first, they both said; We were informed of it ‫بالْمقَاح من الْ َم ْسََََََّّّّّّ ِجد الْ َح َراح َقا َل َحدث َنا بِ ِه والدنا‬
by Imām Zayn al-Abidin al-Ṭabarī and it is the ‫ِاما َماح محيي الدّين َع ْب ُد الْ قَ ا ِدر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َو ُه َو اول‬
first hadith we heard from him by the Maqam ‫َقا َل اْخْ َّ َََََّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي جدي يحيى بِ ْن مكرح َو ُه َو اول َقا َل‬
in the Masjid al-Haram, he said; It was narrated
to us by by our father Imām Muhiy al-Dīn Abd
‫اْخْ ََّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه جدي ُم َح َّمد الْ ُمحب ال َّ َب ِر ّي ا ْما ْ ْو َسط‬
al-Qāḍīr bin Muḥammad and it is the first, he ‫َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ َّ َََََََّّّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه ِاما َماح ُم َح َّمد الْ ُمحب‬
said; I was informed by my grandfather ‫ال َّ َب ِر ّي ا ْماْخير َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ َّ ََََّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه َع ْب ُد اللّه‬
Muḥammad al-Muhib al-Ṭabarī al-Awsat and it
is the first, he said; I was informed of it by Imām
‫بِ ْن اسََّّعد اليافعي َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ ََََََََّّّّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه اِ َماح‬
Muḥammad al-Muhib al-Ṭabarī al-Akhir; I was ‫ا ْماْئِ َّمة اِ ْب َرا ِهي الرضي ال َّ َب ِر ّي َو ُه َو اول َقا َل اْخْ ََّّ ََّب َرنِي‬
informed of it by ʿAbdullāh bin Asad al-Yafii ‫بَِّ ِه الْ َحَّ ِاف الْ َكبِير اْ ْحمََّّد الْ ُمحََّّب ال َّ َب ِر ّي ا ْمَّا ْ ْ َبر‬
and it is the first, he said; I was informed of it by
the Imām of the Imāms Ibrahīm al-Radi al-
‫لي بِ ْن اْبِي‬ ّ ‫َو ُه َو اول َعن َعمه ِاما َماح اْبِي الْحس ََََّّّّن َع‬
Ṭabarī and it is the first; I was informed of it by ‫بكر ال َّ َب ِر ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن ال َّش ََََََّّّّّّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمَََّّّد بِ ْن‬
the great Ḥāfiz Aḥmad al-Muhib al-Ṭabarī al- ‫اِ ْسََََََّّّّّّ َم ِاعي بِ ْن اْبِي ال َّصََََََّّّّّّيي اليمني َو ُه َو اول َعن‬
Akbar and it is the first; from his uncle Imām
‫ال َّشََّّ ْيخ اْبِي الْحسََّّن الْ َم ْق ِد ِسََّّي َو ُه َو اول َعن الْ َف ِقيه‬
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Abī Bakr al-Ṭabarī and it
is the first; from Shaykh Muḥammad bin Ismāʿīl
‫اْبِي َع ْبَّ ُد الل َّّه الََّّديبََّّاجي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي بكر بِ ْن‬
bin Abī al-Sayf al-Yamānī and it is the first; ‫شََََّّّّ ْب َو ُه َو اول َعن عمر الدهسََََّّّّتاني َو ُه َو اول َقا َل‬
from Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Maqdisī and it is ‫اْخْ َّ ََََّّّّ ََّب َرنِي ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الريونجي َو ُه َو اول َقا َل‬
the first; from the jurist Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Dibājī
and it is the first; from Abū Bakr bin Shibl and
‫اْخْ ََّّ ََّب َرنِي َح ْم َزة بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز المالبي َو ُه َو اول َقا َل‬
it is the first; from ʿUmar al-Dahstānī and it is ‫اْخْ َََََََّّّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي اْ ُبو َح ِامد اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن يحيى بِ ْن‬
the first, he said; I was informed by Muḥammad ‫بِلَال الْ َب َّزاز‬
bin Muḥammad al-Rayunjī and it is the first, he
‫(ح) َوبِ ََّّ ِه اِلَى اْبِي َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ََّّ ُد الْ َكرِي‬
said; I was informed by Hamza bin Abd al-Azīz
al-Mahlabī and it is the first, he said; I was ‫لي الونائي َو ُه َو اول‬ ّ ‫الس ِّيد اْبِي الْحسن َع‬ َّ ‫الْ َع َّار َعن‬
informed by Abū Hāmid Aḥmad bin ‫َعن الْ ُب ْر َهان اِ ْب َرا ِهي النمرس َََّّّي َو ُه َو اول َعن عيد بِ ْن‬
Muḥammad bin Yaḥyā bin Bilāl al-Bazzār
‫لي النمرسََََََّّّّّّي َو ُه َو اول َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َس ََََََّّّّّّال‬ ّ ‫َع‬
[Another Chain]
A similar chain up to Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin Abd
‫الْ َب ْص َََََّّّّّ ِر ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن ال َّش َََََّّّّّ ْم ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َعلَاء‬
al-Karīm al-Attār; from Sayyid Abū al-Hafs ʿAli ‫الدّين البابلي َو ُه َو اول َعن الشَّ َباأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
al-Wanāī and it is the first; from Burhān ‫الش َََّّّلبي الْ َح َن ِف ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن الْجمال ُيو ُس َََّّّي بِ ْن‬
Ibrahīm al-Numrasi and it is the first; from Eid
bin ʿAli al-Numrāsī and it is the first; from
‫َز َ ِر َّيا ا ْمانْ َص َََّّّارِ ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن بر َهان الدّين اِ ْب َرا ِهي‬
ʿAbdullāh bin Sālim al-Basrī and it is the first; ‫لي بِ ْن اْ ْحمََّّد القلقشََََََّّّّّّنََّّدي َو ُه َو اول َعن‬ ّ ‫ابِ ْن َع‬
from Shams Muḥammad bin Alā al-Dīn al- ‫الشااأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن اْبِي بكر الْ َم ْق ِد ِسي َو ُه َو اول َعن‬ َ
Bābilī and it is the first; from Shabāb Aḥmad bin

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Muḥammad al-Shalabī al-Ḥanafī and it is the ‫ُوم ُّي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي الْفر‬ ِ ‫الص ْدر اْبِي الْ َف ْتح الْ َم ْيد‬ َّ
‫لي الْ َح َّرانِي َو ُه َو‬ ّ ‫َع ْب ُد اللَّ ِ يي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ ُمنع بِ ْن َع‬
first; from Jamāl Yusuf bin Zakariyyāh al-Ansārī
and it is the first; from Burhān al-Dīn Ibrahīm
Ibn ʿAli bin Aḥmad al-Qalqashandī and it is the ‫لي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬ ّ ‫اول َعن اْبِي الْفر َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن َع‬
first; from Shihāb Aḥmad bin Abī Bakr al- ‫بِ ْن الْ َج ْوزِ ّي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي سَََّّّعيد اِ ْسَََّّّ َم ِاعي بِ ْن‬
Maqdisi and it is the first; from Al-Sadr Abū al- ‫اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْملك ال َّن ْي َسََّّا ُبورِي َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِيه‬
Fath al-Maydūmī and it is the first; from Abū al-
Faraj Abd al-Laṭīf bin Abd al-Munʿim bin ʿAli
‫اْبِي َص ََََّّّّالح اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْملك الْ ُم َؤ ّذن َو ُه َو اول‬
al-Harrānī and it is the first; from Abū al-Faraj ‫َعن اْبِي َطا ِهر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن محمش الز َيادي‬
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin ʿAli bin Muḥammad bin ‫َو ُه َو اول َعن اْبِي َح ِامد اْ ْح مد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن يحيى‬
al-Jawzī and it is the first; from Abū Saeed
Ismāʿīl bin Aḥmad bin Abd al-Mālik al-
‫الْ َب َّزاز بالزاي المكررة َو ُه َو اول َعن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن‬
Naysabūrī and it is the first; from his father Abū ‫بش ََََّّّّر بِ ْن الحك الْ َع ْب ُدي َو ُه َو اول َعن ُس ََََّّّّ ْف َيان بِ ْن‬
Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad bin Abd al-Mālik al-Muaʿdhin ‫ُع َي ْي َنة َو ُه َو اول َواِلَ ْي ِه َي ْن َت ِاي التسََََّّّّلسََََّّّّ باماولية َعن‬
and it is the first; from Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad
‫َع ْمرو بِ ْن ِدي َنَّار َعن اْبِي َقَّا ُبوأ مولى َع ْبَّ ُد الل َّّه بِ ْن‬
bin Muḥammad bin Mahmash al-Ziyādī and it
is the first; from Abū Hāmid Aḥmad bin ‫ص َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َع ْمرو َر ِض ََََّّّّي الل ّه‬ ِ ‫َع ْمرو بِ ْن الْ َعا‬
Muḥammad bin Yaḥyā al-Bazzāz and it is the :‫َعن ُا َما اْن َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َقا َل‬
first; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Bishr bin al-
،2 ‫«ال َّر ِاح ُمو َن َي ْر َح ُم ُا ُ ال َّر ْح َم ُن َت َبَََّّّا َر َك َو َت َعَََّّّا َلى‬
Hakam al-Abdī and it is the first; from Sufyān
bin ʿUyaynah and it is the first, and it is here َّ ‫ض َي ْر َح ُم ُك ْ َم ْن ِفي‬
»‫الس َما ِء‬ ِ ‫ا ْر َح ُموا َم ْن ِفي اما ْ ْر‬
where the pattern of firstness in the chain ends;
from ʿAmr bin Dīnār; from Abū Qābūs the
Mawla of ʿAbdullāh bin ʿAmr bin al-Aas
from ʿAbdullāh bin ʿAmr (Allah be pleased
with them both) that the Messenger of Allah
(Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “The
merciful are shown mercy by the All-Merciful
‫تبارك وتعاىل‬. Have mercy to those on earth, and the
Lord of the Heavens will have mercy upon you.”

2
Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi in his Manahil al-Salsalah (p.9) mentioned that he heard this narration from
all of his Shaykhs with the addition ‫وتعاىل‬ ‫تبارك‬, it was not however mentioned by Ibn al-Jazari, al-Suyuti,
Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī and others. The fact of the matter is that it is not from the narration but rather it is
by way of good manners (adab) at the mention of the Divine Name. It should be recited by the narrator of this
hadith and some scholars added that it not be recorded but recited.

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Shams Muḥammad bin al-Tayyib al-Maghribi then al-Madini said: This hadith – as was stated by
more than one of the Imāms – is an elevated Ḥasan hadith. It was related by Al-Bukhārī in his work
3
Al-Kuna and Al-Adab al-Mufrad, Aḥmad and al-Humaydi in their Musnads, al-Bayhaqi in Al-Shuab,
Abū Dāwūd and Al-Tirmidhī in their Sunan’s, Abū ʿAli al-Zafarani as recorded from his narration as
cited from him by Ibn Al-Abbar and others. Al-Tirmidhī said: This hadith is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ, it was
cited by Al-Ḥākim in Al-Mustadrak who graded it Ṣaḥīḥ, and it is so taking in to account the follow
up and supporting narrations which it has which is not hidden to the one who has some familiarity
with the sciences of hadith. Likewise Zayn al-Iraqi and others were certain of it being Ṣaḥīḥ without
hesitation, and Allah knows best.4

3
In the footnote of the printed edition of Al-Ujalah (p.10) it states that this is a mistake.
4
Al-Ujalah fi Al-Ahadith Al-Musalsalah (p.10-11)

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HANDSHAKE OF ʿANAS

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH َ‫اَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَا َلمصَافَحَة‬

OF THE HANDSHAKE

Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā
informed us and said;
It was related by our Shaykh (ʿUmar bin
Hamdan al-Mahrasi) ; from Allāmah al-Sayyid
Muḥammad bin ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watrī
informed me; from his Shaykh Allamah Abd al-
Ghanī Ibn Abī Saeed al-Mujaddidī al-Diĥlawī;
from his Shaykh Ĥāfiz Muḥammad Abid bin
Aḥmad ʿAli al-Anšārī al-Sindī, who said in his
thabat Ĥašr al-Shārid: I shook the hand of Sayyid
Aḥmad bin Sulaiman al-Hajjam, his twin
brother Sayyid Abul Qāsim Ibn Sulaiman al-
Hajjam, Sayyid Abd al-Razzaq al-Bakkari the
author of al-Qati’ and Shaykh Yusuf bin
Muḥammad Ibn Ala al-Dīn al-Mizjaji, all of
them saying; Sayyid Aḥmad bin Muḥammad
Sharif Maqbul al-Ahdal shook our hand and
said; I shook the hand of Shaykh Aḥmad bin
Muḥammad al-Nakhli and Shaykh ʿAbdullāh
bin Salim al-Basri, both of whom said; We
shook the hand of Shaykh Muḥammad Ibn Ala
al-Dīn al-Babili who said; I shook the hand of
the great Shaykh Abū Bakr bin Ismāʿīlal-
Shinwani who said; I shook the hand Shaykh
Ibrahīm bin ʿAbdullāh al-Alqama who said; I
shook the hand of Ḥāfiz Jalal al-Dīn al-Suyuti
who said; I shook the hand of Taqi al-Dīn
Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Shumni who
:‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّا الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد الرحمن بِ ْن اْبِي بكر الملا قال‬
‫الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد علي بِ ْن ظاهر‬ َّ ‫رواه شيخنا عن ال َعلَّا َمة‬
‫ َعن شَّيخه ال َعلَّا َمة َع ْب ُد ال َغَّ ِني ابِ ْن اْبِي‬، ‫الوتري‬
‫ َعن شيخه الحاف‬،‫َس ِع ْيد ال ُم َج َّد ِدي ال ِّد ْه َل ِوي‬
،‫ُم َح َّمد عابد بِ ْن احمَّد علَّي امانَّصاري السندي‬
‫الس ِّيد‬َّ ‫ َصا َف ْح ُت‬: >‫قال في ثبته<حصر الشارد‬
‫الس ِّيد ابا القاس‬ َّ ‫و َص ْن ِو ِه‬،َ ‫احمَّد بِ ْن سَّليمان الاجَّاح‬
، ‫الس ِّيد َع ْب ُد الرزاق البكَّاري‬ َّ ‫ و‬، ‫ابِ ْن سليمان الاجاح‬
‫ والشَّ ْيخ يوسي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬، >‫صَّاحب<الق يع‬
َّ ‫ صَّافحنا‬:‫ قَّالوا‬، ‫ابِ ْن عَّلاء الَّدين المزجَّاجي‬
‫الس ِّيد‬
:‫احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد شريي مقبول اماهدل ؛ قال‬
‫ والشَّ ْيخ‬، ‫َصا َف ْح ُت الشَّ ْيخ احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد النخلي‬
‫ صافحنا الشَّ ْيخ‬:‫َع ْب ُد اﷲ بِ ْن سال البصري ؛ قاما‬
‫ َصا َف ْح ُت‬:‫ قال‬، ‫ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن عَّلاء الدين البابلي‬
: ‫ قَّال‬، ‫الشَّ ْيخ الكبير ابا بكر بِ ْن اسماعيَّ الَّشنواني‬
:‫ قَّال‬،‫َصا َف ْح ُت الشَّ ْيخ ابراهي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اﷲ العلقمي‬
:‫ قال‬، ‫َصا َف ْح ُت الحَّاف جَّلال الَّدين السيوطي‬
،‫َصا َف ْح ُت تقي الدين احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الَّشمني‬
:‫ قال‬،‫ َصا َف ْح ُت ابَّا ال اهر ابِ ْن الكويك‬:‫قَّال‬
:‫ قال‬، ‫َصا َف ْح ُت ابا اسحاق ابراهي بِ ْن علي‬
‫ َصا َف ْح ُت ابا‬:‫ قال‬، ‫َصا َف ْح ُت ابَّا َع ْب ُد اﷲ الخوئي‬
‫ َصا َف ْح ُت ابا بكر‬:‫قَّال‬،‫المجد بِ ْن الحسين القَّزويني‬

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said; I shook the hand of Abul Ṭāhir Ibn al- ‫ َصا َف ْح ُت ابَّا الحَّسن‬:‫ قَّال‬، ‫بِ ْن ابراهي الش ّحاذي‬
Kuwayk who said; I shook the hand of Abū ‫ َصا َف ْح ُت ابا منصور َع ْب ُد‬: ‫ قَّال‬، ‫ابِ ْن اْبِي زرعَّة‬
Ishaq Ibrahīm bin ʿAli who said; I shook the
‫ َصا َف ْح ُت َع ْب ُد‬:‫ قال‬، ‫الرحمن بِ ْن َع ْب ُداﷲ البزازي‬
hand of Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Khuay who said;
I shook the hand of Abul Majd bin al-
‫ َصافَ ْح ُت ابا القاس َع ْب ُدان‬:‫ قال‬، ‫الملك بِ ْن نجيد‬
Hussain al-Qazwini who said; I shook the ‫ َصا َف ْح ُت عمر بِ ْن سعيد‬:‫ قال‬، ‫بِ ْن حميد المنبجي‬
hand of Abū Bakr bin Ibrahīm al-Shahazdhi ‫ َصا َف ْح ُت‬:‫ قال‬، ‫ َصا َف ْح ُت احمد بِ ْن دهقان‬:‫ قال‬،
who said; I shook the hand of Abul Ḥasan ‫ َصا َف ْح ُت ابا هرمز حين‬:‫ قَّال‬، ‫خلَّي بِ ْن تمَّي‬
Ibn Abī Zarah who said; I shook the hand of
‫ َد َخ ْلن ََّا َع َلَّى اْنََّ بِ ْن‬:‫ قَّال‬، ‫دخلت عليه اعوده‬
Abū Mansur ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin
ʿAbdullāh al-Bazzazi who said; I shook the
‫ي‬ َّ َ ‫ َصا َف ْح ُت بِ َك ِّفي ِه ِذ ِه‬:‫ َف َقا َل‬،‫َمالَِّك نَ ُع ْوده‬
hand of Abd al-Mālik bin Nujayd who said; ‫َر ُس ْو ِل اﷲ صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َف َما َم ِس ْس ُت َخ ًّزا‬
I shook the hand of Abul Qāsim Abdan bin ‫ي َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه‬ ِّ َ ‫َو َما َح ِر ْي ًرا اْ َلي َن ِمن‬
Humayd al-Manbaji who said; I shook the ‫ي‬ ِّ ‫ َف ُق ْل َنَّا م ِا ْنََّ َص ِاف ْح َنا بِال َك‬:‫َوسل ؛ َقا َل اْ ُبَّو ُه ْر ُمَّز‬
hand of ʿUmar bin Saeed who said; I shook
:‫ َو َقَّا َل‬، ‫الَّ ِتي َصا َف ْح َت بِ ِاا َر ُس ْو ُل اﷲ ‘ َف َصا َف َح َنا‬
the hand of Aḥmad bin Dahqan who said; I
‫ فقلت ماْبِي‬، ‫ خلي بِ ْن تمي‬:‫َّس َلا ُح َع َل َّْي ُك َقا َل‬ َّ ‫اَل‬
shook the hand of Khalf bin Tamim who
said; I shook the hand of Abū Hurmuz ، ‫ي الَّ ِتي َصا َف ْح َت بِ ِاا اْنََّساﹰ‬ ِّ ‫ َص ِاف ْح ِني بِال َك‬:‫ُه ْر ُمز‬
when I entered upon him when visiting ‫ َو َه َك َذا َقا َل‬. ‫لس َلا ُح َع َل ْي ُك‬ َّ َ‫ ا‬: ‫ َو َقا َل‬، ‫َف َصا َف َح ِني‬
him, he said; . ‫ َو َصافَ َح تِ ْل ِم ْي ُذه‬، ‫ُ ُّ َو ِاحد ِمن ال َّر َواة‬
We entered upon ʿAnas bin Mālik (Allah be
‫ قُلْ ُت لِلْشَ ْي ِخي َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اْبِي َب َكر‬:‫َفاْقُ ْول‬
pleased with him) to visit him and he said
to us, “With this very hand of mine I shook
‫ي الَّتِي َصا َف ْح َت بِ ِاا الشَّ ْيخ‬ ِّ ‫ َص ِاف ْحانِي بِالْ َك‬:‫ال ُم َّلا‬
the hand of the Messenger of Allah (Allah :‫ َو َقا َل‬، ‫ َف َصا َف َحانِي‬، ‫ُع ْمر بِ ْن َح ْمدَان ال َم ْح َر ِسي‬
bless him and give him peace), and I have ‫لس َلا ُح َع َل ْي ُك‬َّ َ‫ا‬
not touched silk nor brocade softer then the
hand of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless
him and give him peace).”5
Abū Hurmuz said: So we said to ʿAnas:
Shake our hands with the hand with which
you shook the Messenger of Allah (Allah
bless him and give him peace), so we shook
his hand and he said: Assalamu Alaikum
Khalf bin Tamim said: I said to Abū
Hurmuz: Shake my hand with the hand

5
This narration in Ithaf al-Ikhwan (p.137) has Sayyiduna ʿAnas’s description of the blessed prophetic hands
omitted, it is however cited in other collections such as Al-Ujalah (p.12).

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with which you shook ʿAnas’s hand, so he

shook my hand and said: Assalamu
Alaikum
Each one of the narrators said the same,
shaking hands with their student.
I [Yaḥyā bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr al-
Mullā] say: I said to our teacher, Shaykh
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā:
Shake my hand with the hand with which
you shook the hand of Shaykh ʿUmar bin
Hamdan al-Mahrasi, so he shook my hand
and said: Assalamu Alaikum6

Ibn Aqilah said: This hadith was related by al-Dibaji in his Musalsalat, Ibn Mufaddal and al-Tamimi
in his Musalsalat. The hadith has been discussed as being weak and fabricated, even if the text is Ṣaḥīḥ
as related by al-Bukhārī, Aḥmad bin Hanbal from ʿAnas, “I have never touched any silk or brocade
that is softer than the palm of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him,
nor have I ever smelled musk or scent more fragrant than the fragrance of the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him."
Al-Suyuti said in Jiyad al-Musalsalat: This hadith was related by Ibn Asakir in his Tarikh from the
route of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭabarī from Abū Muḥammad Abd al-Mālik bin Muḥammad bin Nujayd
al-Baghawi in a musalsal form. Abid al-Sindī said: Shams al-Sakhawi vigorously denied its being
musalsal and said: Abū Hurmuz – whose name is Nafi – was declared a liar on occasion by Ibn Main,
and Abū Hashim said he was severely weak (matruk dhahib al-hadith).. Abid [al-Sindī] said: He
however was not alone in narrating it, for it was related in a pattern form from the route of
Muḥammad bin Kamil.7

6
Therefore those wishing to narrate this hadith from Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Mullā should say the following to him
after hearing the hadith:
‫الرمحَن بِن َأ ِِب َبكَر املُ َّّل‬ ِ ِّ ‫صافِح ِاِن بِا ْل َك‬
َّ ‫ف ا َّلتي َصا َف ْح َت ِ َِبا الشيخ عَبد‬ َ َ
After which you will shake his hand and he will say to you: Assalamu Alaikum
7
Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi in his Manahil al-Salsalah p.41-42 citing these words adds the following:
“I say: And that is by means of that which I narrate from Sayyid Amin from Abd al-Ghani, from Muḥammad
Abid, from Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Sulayman bin Yaḥyā bin ʿUmar Maqbul al-Ahdal, from his father,
from Muḥammad bin al-Tayyib al-Maghribi, from his father and Shaykh Abī ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin ʿAbd
al-Raḥmān al-Fasi and other than them, both, all of them said: We shook the hand of Abū Salim al-Ayyashi,
who shook thhe hand of Shihab al-Khafaji, from Ibrahīm al-Alqama, from his brother Shams al-Alqama and

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Sayyid Yusuf al-Armiyuni, they both from Jalal al-Suyuti, from Kamal al-Dīn, from Ibn al-Jazari, from Yusuf
bin Muḥammad al-Sarmari, from Abd al-Samad bin Abī al-Jaysh, from Abū Muḥammad Yusuf bin ʿAbd al-
Raḥmān, from his father ʿAbd al-Raḥmān biin al-Jawzi, from Ḥāfiz Muḥammad bin Nāṣir, from Abū al-
Ghanaim bin al-Nadas, from Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Alawi, from Abū al-Fadl Muḥammad Ibn Jafar al-Khuzai,
from Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin Saeed al-Matui, from Abū Ghanim Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin
Zakariyyah, from Muḥammad bin al-Kamil, from Aban al-Attar, from Thabit al-Bunani, from ʿAnas bin Mālik
(Allah be pleased with him) said: I shook the hand of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him
peace), and I have not felt silk nor…”
With regards to Muhammad bin Kamil, Imam al-Sakhawi said in Jawahir al-Mukallalah that he was not relied
upon as a narrator. Thus this supporting chain also comes via a narrator who is weak, and Allah Most High
knows best.

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SEEKING REFUGE

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF THE ََ‫اَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَقَوَلَ مَقلََأَ مَعوَ مَذَبَاّللهَمَنََالشيطان‬
S T A T E M E NT : R E C I T E I S E E K R E F UG E I N
A L L A H F R O M T H E A C C UR S E D D E V I L َ‫الرجيَم‬

I recited to Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī

and said: I seek refuge in the All-Hearing and
the All-Knowing, and he said to me: Recite ‘I
seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil’;
from Shaykh ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi; from
Sayyid ʿAli Zahir al-Watri; from Shaykh Abd al-
Ghani al-Dihlawi; from Shaykh Muḥammad
Abid al-Sindī; from his uncle Muḥammad
Hussain bin Murad al-Sindī; from his father;
from Muḥammad Hashim bin Abd al-Ghafur;
from Abd al-Qāḍīr the Muftī of Makka; from
Ḥasan al-Ujaymi; from Shihāb Aḥmad al-
Khafaji; from Burhan al-Alqama; from Jalal al-
Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyuti; from Ḥāfiz Ibn
8
Ḥajar; from ʿAbdullāh bin Sakr; from Abū al-
ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin Tayy al-Zubayri; from Abū
al-Fath al-Qaysi; from Abū al-Ḥasan bin al-
‫َق َرا ُت على الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني َفقلت اْ ُع ْو ُذ‬
‫الس ِم ْي ِع الْ َعلِ ْي َفقَا َل لي ق اْ ُع ْو ُذ بِاللّه ِم َن الشَّ ْي َ ِان‬
َّ ِ‫ب‬
‫ال َّر ِج ْي َو ُه َو َعن الشَّ ْيخ عمر َح ْمدَان ال َم ْح َر ِسي َو ُه َو‬
‫لي َظاهر الوتري َعن الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد الْ َغ ِن ّي‬ ّ ‫الس ِّيد َع‬ َّ ‫َعن‬
‫الدهلوي َعن الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد َعابِد السندي َعن َعمه‬
‫ُم َح َّمد ُح َس ْين بِ ْن ُم َراد السندي َعن اْبِيه َعن ُم َح َّمد‬
‫َهاش بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الغفور َعن َع ْب ُد الْقَا ِدر مفتي َم َّكة َعن‬
‫اجي َعن‬ َ ‫َح َس ْن ال ُع َج ْي ِمي َعن ال ّش َااأ اْ ْح َمد‬
ِ ‫الخ َف‬
‫الْ ُب ْر َهان ال َع ْل َق َمي َعن َج َلال ال ِّديِن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن‬
‫وط ّي َعن الْ َح ِاف ابِ ْن َح َج ْر َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن‬ ِ ‫الس ُي‬
ُّ
‫سكر َعن اْبِي الْ َع َّباأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن طي الزبيرِي َعن اْبِي‬
‫الْ َف ْتح الْ َق ْي ِسي َعن اْبِي الْحسن بِ ْن الْمفض َعن اْبِي‬

8
This part of the chain needs further examination, a discussion of which I could not find specifically in a
number of the commonly used Musalsalat works. The issue is as follows: Shaykh Abd al-Hayy al-Luknawi
mentions in his Nafi al-Kabir (p.44) that Hafidh Ibn Ḥajar passed away in 852H whilst Imām al-Suyuti was
born in 849H. Working out the dates of the death and birth of these scholars it appears that Imām al-Suyuti
was three and a half years of age at the time of Hafidh Ibn Ḥajars passing away. Imām al-Suyuti himself in
Tadhkirah al-Huffadh in the biography of Hafidh Ibn Ḥajar said that, “I have a general Ijāzah from him, and I
do not deem it far fetched that I have a specific Ijāzah from him, for my father would visit him often.”
Likewise in his work Tadrib al-Rawi (2/407) he mentions the pattern chained (musalsal) narration of Huffadh
wherein he mentions his narration from Hafidh Ibn Ḥajar by way of general Ijāzah, adding that, “I do not
narrate anything else by it (meaning the general Ijāzah) except this hadith.” This Musalsal is neither mentioned
in Imām al-Suyuti’s work Jiyad al-Musalsalat which is in print, however he does have a larger work on Musalsal
hadith which is not in print and which may shed light on this matter. Allah Most High knows best.

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Mufaddal; from Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim bin ‫َاس بِ ْن سعيد بِ ْن َم ْن ُصور ال َّت ِمي ِمي َعن اْبِي‬ ِ ‫ُم َح َّمد الْق‬
Saeed bin Mansur al-Tamimi; from Abū ʿAbd
‫َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن‬
al-Raḥmān Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marwazi; from Abū al-Fadl ‫الْمروزِي َعن اْبِي الْفض ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن اْ ْحمد ابِ ْن‬
Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad bin ‫ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْفض الماهياني الْ َخ ِ يب َعن ِاما َماح َعل ّي‬
al-Fadl al-Mahiyani al-Khatib; from Imām ʿAli ‫بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الواحدي َعن اْبِي ا ِْس َحاق الثَّ ْع َلبِ ّي َعن اْبِي‬
bin Aḥmad al-Wahidi; from Abū Ishaq al-
Tha’labi; from Abū al-Fadl Muḥammad bin
‫الْفض ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َج ْعفَر الْ ُخ َز ِاع ّي َعن اْبِي الْ ُح َس ْين‬
Jafar al-Khuzai; from Abū al-Hussain ʿAbd al- ‫َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َعن اْبِي ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن‬
Raḥmān bin Muḥammad; from Abū ‫عجلَان الزنجاني َعن اْبِي ُع ْث َمان ا ِْس َم ِاعي بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي‬
Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh bin Ajlan al-Zanjani;
from Abū ʿUthmān Ismāʿīlbin Ibrahīm al-
‫ا ْما ْ ْه َوازِي َعن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن بس َاح َعن روح‬
Ahwazi; from Muḥammad bin ʿAbdullāh bin ‫بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ُمؤمن َعن َي ْعقُوأ الْ َحضْ َر ِم ّي َعن َسلاح اْبِي‬
Bistam; from Ruh bin Abd Mu’min; from ‫النجود َعن زر بِ ْن ُح َب ْيش‬ ُ ‫اص ابِ ْن اْبِي‬ ِ ‫الْ ُم ْنذر َعن َع‬
‫الرواة اعوذ بالسميع الْ َعلِي َف َيقُول‬ َ ‫َقائِلا َو ِاحد من‬
Yʿaqūb al-Hadrami from Salam Abū al-
Mundhir; from ʿĀṣim Ibn Abī al-Nujud; from
Zarr bin Hubaish, each of the narrators reciting ‫الشَّ ْيخ ق اعوذ بِاللّه من الشَّ ْي َان ال َّر ِجي َقا َل زر‬
‘I seek refuge in the All-Hearing and All- ‫َف َلقَد َق َرات على َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َم ْس ُعود َفقلت اعوذ‬
Knowing’ and in response the Shaykh sayinf,
‫بالسميع الْ َعلِي َفقَا َل لي ق اعوذ بِاللّه من الشَّ ْي َان‬
‘Recite: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed
devil.’
‫ال َّر ِجي فَ َلقَد َق َرات على َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه‬
Zarr said: I recited to ʿAbdullāh bin Masud and ‫َوسل َفقلت اعوذ بالسميع الْ َعلِي َفقَا َل َيا ابِ ْن اح َع ْب ُد‬
said, ‘I seek refuge in the All-Knowing and All- ‫ق اعوذ بِاللّه من الشَّ ْي َان ال َّر ِجي َه َك َذا اْ ْق َراْنِي ِه‬
Hearing’ and he said to me, ‘Recite: I seek refuge
in Allah from the accursed devil’, for I recited to
‫ِج ْبرِي َعن الْ َقلَ َعن اللَّ ْوح الْ َم ْحفُوظ‬
the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and
give him peace) and said, ‘I seek refuge in the
All-Knowing and All-Hearing’ and he said,
“O son of Umm Abd, recite I seek refuge in
Allah from the accursed devil, for this is how
Jibril instructed me to recite from The Pen, from
The Preserved Tablet.”

Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi also narrates this hadith with the version of, “ ‫الل السممممممعلي ال ل‬
ّ ‫”أعوذ ب‬
There is agreement amongst the expert reciters of the ten readings that the tawwudh is “ ‫الل عن‬
ّ ‫أعوذ ب‬
ّ ‫ أعوذ ب‬is related by Al-Tirmidhī in his Sunan in the invocations
‫ ”الشلطان الرجل‬except that ‫الل السعلي ال ل‬
for the morning and evening, however Al-Darimi and Ibn al-Sunni differed with him regarding the
additional wording of ‫ سعلي ال ل‬and related it without it being mentioned just as the expert reciters.

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Ibn al-Tayyib said: Al-Sakhawi indicated to all of its chains of transmission and was critical of Ibn al-
Jazari’s view that it possessed a good chain from the route of Al-Mutui, as he declared weak by Abū
Nuʿaym and Ibn Mardawayh. However they did clearly mention that the chains of the hadith even
if they were weak mutually strengthened each other.
Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi said: The narrators of our chain from Ruh to those above him are the
Imāms of Quranic recitation, and Al-Mutui is not in this chain. The name of al-Mutui is Ḥasan bin
Sa’d, he is a great Imām, trustworthy in recitation…which was the reason why Ibn al-Jazari graded
the hadith as good, and he is the Shaykh of the Quran reciters, and most knowledgeable of the
narrators of the Quranic readings, and Allah knows best.9

9
Manahil al-Salsalah (p.143-144)

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 LOVE

LOVE

َ‫اَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَقَولَإ يِّن مََأحَبَكََف مَقل‬

PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF THE
S T A T E M E NT , “I L O V E Y O U S O S A Y …”

I was informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-
Fādānī who said;
I was informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Abd al-
Baqi, ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi, Khalīfah bin
Hamd al-Nabhani and ʿAli bin Falih al-Zahiri,
the four of them; from Allamah Falih bin
Muḥammad al-Zahiri al-Madini, who is the
father of the last scholar; from Muḥammad bin
ʿAli al-Sanusi; from Jamāl Abd al-Ḥāfiz al-
Ujaymi; from Muḥammad Hashim bin Abd al-
Ghafur al-Sindī; from Eid bin ʿAli al-Numrasi
al-Burallasi; from the senior scholar
Muḥammad al-Bahuti al-Hanbali; from ʿAbd
al-Raḥmān al-Bahuti; from Najm al-Dīn al-
Ghayti; from Ḥāfiz Jalal al-Dīn al-Suyuti; from
Abū al-Tayyib Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-
Hijazi al-Adib; from the chief Judge Majd al-Dīn
Ismāʿīlbin Ibrahīm al-Ḥanafī; from Abū Saeed
al-Alai; from Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-
Armawi; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Makkī;
from Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafi; from Muḥammad bin
Abd al-Karim; from Abū ʿAli ʿĪsa bin Shadhan
al-Qassar al-Basri; from Aḥmad al-Najjad; from
Ibn Abī Dunya; from Al-Ḥasan al-Jarawi; from
ʿAmr al-Tanisi; from Al-Hakam bin Abdah;
from Haywah bin Shuraih; from Uqbah bin
Muslim; from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hubuli;
from Al-Sanabahi; from Muadh bin Jabal who
said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him
‫ اْخْ َب َرن ََّ ََّّا‬:‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّ ََّّا الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال‬
‫ال َّشََّّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد الْ َباقِي َوعمر َح ْمدَان ال َم ْح َر ِسََّّي‬
‫َو َخلِيفَ ة بِ ْن حمد الن ِب ِه اني َوعلي بِ ْن فالح ال َّظا ِه ِر ّي‬
‫اربعتا َعن العلََّّامََّّه فََّّالح بِ ْن ُم َح َّمََّّد ال َّظََّّا ِه ِر ّي‬
ِ
ّ ‫الْم ََّّدنِي َو ُه َو َوال ََّّد ا ْم ََّّاخير َعن ُم َح َّم ََّّد بِ ْن َع‬
‫لي‬
‫السَََّّّنوسَََّّّي َعن الْجمال َع ْب ُد الحفي العجيمي َعن‬
‫ُم َح َّمد َهاش ََّّ بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الغفور الس ََّّندي َعن عيد بِ ْن‬
‫لي النمرسََّّي الْ ُب ُرلُّ ِس َّ ّي َعن المعمر ُم َح َّمد البِ ِه وتي‬ ّ ‫َع‬
‫الْ َح ْن َبلِ ّي َعن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن ال ِب ِه وتي َعن نج ال ّدين‬
‫وط ّي َعن اْبِي‬ ِ ‫الغي ي َعن الْ َح ِاف جلال الدّين ال ُّسََّّ ُي‬
‫ال ّيََّّب اْ ْحمََّّد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد الْ ِح َجَّازِي امََّّاديََّّب َعن‬
‫َقا ِض َََّّّي الْ ُق َض َََّّّاة مجد الدّين اِ ْس َََّّّ َم ِاعي بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي‬
‫الْ َح َن ِف ّي َعن اْبِي سعيد العلائي َعن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
‫امارموي َعن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن مكي َعن اْبِي َطا ِهر‬
ّ ‫السََََََّّّّّّ َل ِفي َعن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َكرِي َعن اْبِي َع‬
‫لي‬
‫يسى بِ ْن شَ اذان الْقصار الْ َب ْص ِر ّي َعن اْ ْحمد النجاد‬ َ ‫ِع‬
‫َعن ابِ ْن اْبِي ال ُّدنْ َيا َعن الْحسَََََّّّّّن الجروي َعن َع ْمرو‬
‫التني ِسَََّّّي َعن الحك بِ ْن َع ْب ُدة َعن َح ْي َوة بِ ْن ُشَََّّّ َر ْيح‬
‫لي‬ ِ ‫الح ُّب‬ُ ‫عقبة بِ ْن ُمسََََََّّّّّّل َعن اْبِي َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن‬ َ ‫َعن‬
‫ابحي َعن م َعاذ بِ ْن جب َقا َل َقا َل لي َر ُس ْو ُل‬ ِ ‫َعن الص َن‬
َّ ‫ اللّا‬: ْ ‫ َف ُق‬، َ‫اللّه صََّّلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسََّّل اِنِّي اُ ِح ُّبك‬
َ‫وح ْسنِ ِع َبا َدتِك‬ ُ ،‫ َوشُ ْك ِر َك‬،‫اْ ِع ِّني َع َلى ِذ ْ ِر َك‬

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and give him peace) said to me10, “Indeed I love َ‫َو ِفي ر َِوا َيََّّة اْبِي َد ُاود َيََّّا ُم َعََّّاذ َوالل ََّّّه اِنِّي اُ ِح ُّبََّّك‬
you, so recite: O Allah help me to make
‫َواُ ْو ِصََََّّّّ ْيكَ اْن َما َت َدع ِفي ُد ُب ِر ُ َصََََّّّّلَاة اْن َت ُقول‬
rememberance of You, thank You and worship
you in the best manner.”
َ‫اللّا َّ اْ ِع ِّني َع َلى ِذ ْ ِر َك َوشُ ْك ِر َك َو ُح ْسنِ ِع َبا َدتِك‬
An in another version of this narration related ‫َو َقا َل ُم َعاذ لِ ْل َصََََََّّّّّّ َنا َب ِحي اِنِّي اُ ِح ُّبكَ فَقُ الخ َو َقا َل‬
by Abū Dāwūd, “O Muadh! Indeed I love you, I ‫لي اِنِّي اُ ِح ُّبكَ َف ُق الخ َو َه َك َذا َقا َل‬ ُ ِ‫ال َص َََّّّ َنا َب ِحي ل‬
ِ ‫لح ُّب‬
advise you to not leave after every prayer to
recite: O Allah help me to make rememberance
‫وخ َنا َولل ّ ِه‬ َ ‫ُ راو لمن روى َعن ُه َو َقا َل لَناَ َذلِكَ ُشَََََّّّّّ ُي‬
of You, thank You and worship you in the best ‫الْ َح ْمد‬
manner.”

Ibn Aqilah said: This hadith was related by Al-Daylami in a Musalsal form, and by Abū Dāwūd and
al-Nasai. Al-Suyuti said: It is Ṣaḥīḥ in terms of its chain (Isnad) and pattern. Abid al-Sindī said that
Al-Sakhawi was certain of the authenticity of the text of the narration and the pattern. Ibn al-Tayyib
said that the hadith was Ṣaḥīḥ in terms of its chain and pattern.11

10
There are versions where the name of the person being narrated to is mentioned, as done when some
scholars narrate this hadith.
11
Manahil al-Salsalah (p.26-27)

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 ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS

ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS

َ‫اَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَال مَفقَهَاءَالَفَنفية‬

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF
ḤANAFĪ SCHOLARS

I was informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-

Fādānī who said; I was informed by the most
‫ اْخْ َب َرن ََّا‬:‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال‬
learned scholar Shaykh Muḥammad Abd al- ‫بِ ِه ال َعلَّا َمة الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد ا ْل َباقِي امايوبي اللكنوي‬
Baqi al-Ayyubi al-Laknawi and then al-Madani
al-Ḥanafī; from Sayyid ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watri;
‫لي بِ ْن َظاهر الوتري‬ َّ ‫ث َّ الْمدنِي الْ َح َن ِف ّي َعن‬
ّ ‫الس ِّيد َع‬
from Abd al-Ghani bin Abī Saeed al-Dihlawi; ‫َعن َع ْب ُد ا ْل َغ ِن ّي بِ ْن ْابِي سعيد الدهلوي َعن ُم َح َّمد‬
from Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī then al-
Madani; from Yusuf bin Muḥammad al-Mizjaji; ُ ‫َعابِد السندي ث َّ الْمدنِي َعن ُي‬
‫وسي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
from his father Muḥammad bin Ala al-Dīn al- ‫المزجاجي َعن اْبِيه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َعلَاء الدّين المزجاجي‬
Mizjaji; from his father Ala al-Dīn bin
Muḥammad al-Mizjaji; from the Imām of
‫َعن اْبِيه َعلَاء الدّين بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد المزجاجي َعن ِاما َماح‬
hadith transmission and hadith narrator Abū ‫لي العجيمي‬ ّ ‫الراواية الْمسند ْابِي ا ْما ْ ْس َرار حسن بِ ْن َع‬
al-Asrar Ḥasan bin ʿAli al-Ujaymi al-Makkī;
from the Muftī of Islām and great notable َّ ‫الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن مفتي ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح َوعل ا ْما ْ ْعلَاح‬
‫الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد‬
figure, Sayyid Muḥammad Sadiq bin Aḥmad ‫َصا ِدق بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بادشاه الْ ُح َس ْي ِني َعن ال َعلَّا َمة ُم َح َّمد‬
Badshah al-Hussaini; from Allamah
Muḥammad bin Abd al-Qāḍīr al-Nahriri; from
‫بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْقَا ِدر النحريري َعن السرا عمر الحانوتي‬
Siraj ʿUmar al-Hanuti; from Burhan Ibrahīm ‫َعن الْ ُب ْر َهان اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن الكر ي َصاحب‬
bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Karki the author of Al-
Fayd; from al-Muhib Muḥammad bin Aḥmad
‫الْ َف ْيض َعن الْ ُمحب ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد اماقصرائي َعن‬
al-Aqsarai; from Siraj ʿUmar bin ʿAli al-Kinani, ‫لي الْ ِك َنانِي الشاير بقارئ الْ ِادَا َية‬ ّ ‫السرا عمر بِ ْن َع‬
well known as Qari al-Hidayah; from Al-Ala’ al-
Sayrami; from Sayyid Jalal bin Shams al-Dīn al-
‫الس ِّيد جلال بِ ْن شم‬ َّ ‫َعن الْ َعلَاء السيرامي َعن‬
Karlani; ‫الدّين الكرماني َعن ال َعلَّا َمة َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن‬
from Allamah abd al-Aziz bin Aḥmad bin
Muḥammad al-Bukhārī;
.‫ُم َح َّمد ُالب َخارِ ّي‬
[Another chain] ‫)ح) َوبِ ِه اِ َلى حسن العجيمي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن شيخ‬
By means of the same route to Ḥasan al-Ujaymi
al-Makkī; from the Shaykh of the lands, Muftī
‫ا ْما َفاق مفتي الرملة ِاما َماح خير الدّين َعن الشَّ ْيخ اْ ْحمد‬

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of Ramla, Imām Khayr al-Dīn; from Shaykh ‫بِ ْن اْ ِمين الدّين َعن َوالِده اْ ِمين الدّين بِ ْن َع ْب ُد العال‬
Aḥmad bin Amin al-Dīn; from his father Amin
al-Dīn bin Abd al-Aal al-Janbalati; from Shaykh
‫الجنبلاطي َعن الشَّ ْيخ سري الدّين َع ْب ُد الْبر بِ ْن‬
Sari al-Dīn Abd al-Barr bin al-Muhib ‫ا ْل ُمحب ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ال ّش ْح َنة َعن الزين ابِ ْن ق لوبغا‬
Muḥammad bin Shahnah; from Zayn Ibn
Qutlubugha; from Ibn al-Dīn al-Qahiri; from
‫َعن اْ ِمين الدّين القاهري َعن القواح ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
Al-Qawwam Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al- ‫ا ْما ْ ْفَانِ ِّي َعن ا ْل ِع ّز ْا ْحمد بِ ْن المظفر بروايته َو َع ْب ُد‬
Akfani; from Al-Izz Aḥmad bin al-Muzaffari
with his transmission and Abd al-Aziz al-
‫الْ َعزِيز ُالب َخارِ ّي َعن َحاف الدّين اْبِي الْفض ُم َح َّمد‬
Bukhārī; from Ḥāfiz al-Dīn Abū al-Fadl ‫بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن نصر ُالب َخارِ ّي َعن شم ا ْماْئِ َّمة اْبِي‬
Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Nasr al-
Bukhārī; from Shams al-Aimmah Abū al-
‫المجدغ ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الستار الكردري َعن بدر‬
Mujdagh Muḥammad bin Abd al-Sattar al- ‫ا ْماْئِ َّمة عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َكرِي الورسكي َعن ِاما َماح ر ن‬
Kardari; from Badr al-Aimmah ʿUmar bin Abd
al-Karima al-Warsaki; from Imām Rukn al-Dīn
‫الدّين َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن شيرويه الْك ْر َمانِي‬
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad Ibn ‫َعن َفخر الْق َُضاة ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْحسن امارسابِ ْندي َعن‬
Sharawayh al-Kermani; from Fakhr al-Qudah
Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan al-Arsabandi; from
‫عماد ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح َع ْب ُد ال َّر ِحي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز الزوزني َعن‬
Imad al-Islām ʿAbd al-Raḥīm bin Abd al-Aziz ‫يسى الدبوسي َعن‬ َ ‫َاضي اْبِي زيد َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ِع‬ ِ ‫الق‬
al-Zawzani; from Qāḍī Abū Zayd ʿAbdullāh bin
ʿĪsa al-Dabusi; from Ustadh Abū Jafar
‫ا ْما ُ ْس َتاذ ْابِي َج ْعفَر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن عمر اماستروشني َعن‬
Muḥammad bin ʿUmar al-Istarushani; from ‫لي بِ ْن خضر ال َّن َس ِف ّي َعن‬
ّ ‫اِ َماح الْ َع ْصر اْبِي الْحسن َع‬
Imām al-Asr Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Khidr al-
nasafi; from Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin al-Fadl
‫ْابِي بكر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ا ْلفض الكماري بِ َف ْتح الْ َكاف‬
al-Kamari; from Imām Abū Muḥammad ‫َعن ِاما َماح اْبِي ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َي ْعقُوأ‬
ʿAbdullāh bin Muḥammad bin Yʿaqūb al-
Saydhamuni al-Harithi; from the exemplar Abū
‫الص ِغير‬
َّ ‫السيذموني ا ْل َحارِثِ ّي َعن ا ْلق ْد َوة ْابِي َح ْفص‬
Hafs al-Saghir ʿAbdullāh; from his father the ‫َع ْب ُد اللّه َعن َوالِده ِاما َماح الْ َمشْ ُاور اْبِي َح ْفص الْ َكبِير‬
well known Imām Abū Hafs al-Kabir Aḥmad
bin Hafs al-Bukhārī; from the Imām and proof,
‫حجة اْبِي َع ْب ُد‬ َّ ْ‫اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َح ْفص ُالب َخارِ ّي َعن ِاما َماح ال‬
Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin al-Ḥasan al- ‫اللّه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْحسن الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي َعن ِاما َماح ا ْما ْ ْع َظ‬
Shaybani; from the greatest Imām Abū Ḥanīfah
Numan bin Thabit al-Kufi; from ʿAbdullāh bin
‫اْبِي حنيفَة ال ُّن ْع َمان بِ ْن ثَابت الْ ُك ِوفي َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن‬
Abī Abī Habibah said, I heard Abū al-Dardā’’ ‫اْبِي َحبِ َيبة َقا َل َس ِم ْع ُت اْ َبا ال َّد ْر َداء َيقُول ُ ْن ُت َر ِد ْيي‬
say, “I was sitting behind the Prophet (Allah
bless him and give him peace) and he said: O
‫ال َّنبِي صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َفقَا َل َيا اْ َبا ال َّد ْر َداء َمن‬
Abū al-Dardā’’, he who bears witness that there ‫شَ ِا َد اْ ْن َما اِلَ َه اِ َّما اللّه َواْنِّي َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه َو َج َب ْت لَ ُه‬
is no god except Allah and that I am the
Messenger of Allah, then Paradise is incumbent
‫الَج َّنة قُ ْلت َواِ ْن َزنَا َواِ ْن َس َر َق؟ َقا َل َف َسا َر َسا َع َة َف َعا َد‬

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for him. I said: Even if he commits fornication ‫لِ َكل َِام ِه َف ُق ْل ُت َواِ ْن َزنَا َواِ ْن َس َرقَ ؟ َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه‬
and steals?
He remained silent for a moment and then
‫َوسل َواِ ْن َزنَا َواِ ْن َس َرقَ َواِ ْن َر ِغ َ اْنْي اْبِي ال َّد ْر َداء‬
repeated his words, so I said again: Even if he ‫الح ِديث ُ ُج ُم َعة‬ َ ‫َف َكا َن اْ ُبو ال َّد ْر َداء ُي َح ِّدث بِ ِا َذا‬
fornicates and steals? He (Allah bless him and
give him peace) said: Even if he fornicates and
‫َعند ِم ْن َبر َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َو َي َضع‬
steals, despite what Abū al-Dardā’’ may think. ‫اُ ْص ُبعه على اْنفه َو َيقُول َواِن رغ اني اْبِي ال َّد ْر َداء‬
Abū al-Dardā’’ would narrate this hadith every
Jumah by the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah
(Allah bless him and give him peace), whilst
placing his finger upon his nose and saying:
Despite what Abū al-Dardā’’ may think.12

13
Ibn al-Tayyib said: The hadith is Ṣaḥīḥ, and it was related by the Imām’s of the Ṣaḥīḥ works.

12
The literal meaning of the saying refers to the nose of a person, it is a metaphor in the Arabic language.
13
Al-Ujalah fi Al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah (p.39)

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HANBALI SCHOLARS

َ‫اَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَالَ مَفقَهَاءَالفَنابلة‬

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF
HANBALI SCHOLARS

It was narrated to me by Shaykh Muḥammad
Yāsīn al-Fādānī who said;
It was narrated to me by the Hadith specialist
and jurist Shaykh Mahmud al-Sayyid bin
Muḥammad al-Sayyid al-Dumi al-Hanbali;
from his Shaykh Mustafa bin Aḥmad al-Shatti;
from his father Aḥmad al-Shatti; from Allamah
Ḥasan bin ʿUmar al-Shatti; from Mustafa bin
Sa’d al-Ruhaybani; from the Hadith specialist of
al-Sham Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad al-Saffarini
and Aḥmad al-Ba’li, both of them; from Abū al-
Mawahib Muḥammad bin Abd al-Baqi al-Ba’li;
from his father the jurist, hadith specialist and
recitor, Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Hanbali al-Ba’li
and then al-Dimashqi; from Shaykh ʿAbd al-
Raḥmān al-Buhuti; from Taqi al-Tannukhi;
from his father Qāḍī Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Hāmid
Ibn al-Nur ʿAli bin Aḥmad al-Bashishi al-
Maydani; from Qāḍī al-Izz Abū al-Barakat
Aḥmad bin al-Qāḍī al-Burhan Ibrahīm bin al-
Nāṣir Nasrullah al-Kinani; from Jamāl
ʿAbdullāh bin al-Qāḍī Ala’ al-Dīn ʿAli al-
Kinani; from Al-Ala’ Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin
Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Fardi al-Dimashqi;
from Al-Fakhr Ibn al-Bukhārī; from Abū ʿAli
Hanbal bin ʿAbdullāh al-Mukbir al-Rasafi; from
Abū al-Qāsim Hibatullah bin Muḥammad bin
Abd al-Wahid bin Husaini (saad); from Abū
ʿAli al-Ḥasan bin ʿAli al-Tamimi al-Madhab al-
‫ َحدث َنا‬:‫َحدث َنا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال‬
‫بِ ِه الْ ُمحدث الْ َف ِقيه الشَّ ْيخ َم ْح ُمود ال َّس ِّيد بِ ْن‬
‫الس ِّيد الدومي الْ َح ْن َبلِ ّي َعن شَ ْيخه مص فى‬ َّ ‫ُم َح َّمد‬
‫بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الش ي َعن اْبِيه اْ ْحمد الش ي َعن ال َعلَّا َمة‬
‫حسن بِ ْن عمر الش ي َعن مص فى بِ ْن سعد‬
‫الرحيباني َعن ُمحدث الشَّ اح ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن اْ ْحمد‬
‫السفاريني َواحمد البعلي ِلَا ُه َما َعن اْبِي الْ َم َوا ِهب‬
‫ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َباقِي البعلي َعن اْبِيه الْ َف ِقيه الْ ُمحدث‬
َّ ‫الْ ُم ْقرِئ الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد الْ َباقِي الْ َح ْن َبلِ ّي البعلي ث‬
‫ال ِّد َمشْ ِقي َعن الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن البِ ِه وتي َعن التقي‬
‫اضي‬ ِ ‫شااأ الدّين َعن ال َق‬ َ ‫َاضي‬ ِ ‫التنوخي َعن َوالِده الق‬
ِ
‫لي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد‬ ّ ‫شااأ الدّين اْبِي َحامد ابِ ْن ال ُّنور َع‬ َ
‫َاضي الْ ِع ّز اْبِي البر ات‬ ِ ‫البشبيشي الميداني َعن الق‬
‫اصر نصر اللّه‬ ِ ‫َاضي الْ ُب ْر َهان اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ال َّن‬
ِ ‫اْ ْحمد بِ ْن الق‬
‫َاضي َعلَاء الدّين‬ ِ ‫الْ ِك َنانِي َعن الْجمال َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن الق‬
ِ
‫لي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد‬ ّ ‫لي الْك َنانِي َعن الْ َعلَاء اْبِي الْحسن َع‬ ّ ‫َع‬
‫بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الفرضي ال ِّد َمشْ ِقي َعن الْفَخر ابِ ْن ُالب َخارِ ّي‬
‫لي َح ْن َب بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه المكبر الرصافي َعن‬ ّ ‫َعن اْبِي َع‬
‫َاس هبة اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َو ِاحد بِ ْن‬ ِ ‫اْبِي الْق‬
‫لي ال َّت ِمي ِمي‬
ّ ‫لي الْحسن بِ ْن َع‬ ّ ‫الحصيني َعن اْبِي َع‬
‫الْ َم ْذ َهب الْ َو ِاع َعن اْبِي بكر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َج ْعفَر‬

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Waiz; from Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin Jafar al- ‫الْق ي ِعي َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه ابِ ْن ِاما َماح اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن‬
Qati’i; from ʿAbdullāh Ibn al-Imām Aḥmad bin
‫َح ْن َب َعن اْبِيه َعن اْبِي عدي‬
Muḥammad bin Hanbal; from his father; from
Abū Adiyy; from Humayd; from ʿAnas who ‫َعن حميد َعن ان َقا َل َقا َل َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه‬
said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him ‫يي‬َ َ ‫َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اِذا اْ َرا َد اللّه بِ َع ْب ُد خيرا ْاس َت ْعمل ُه َقالُوا‬
and give him peace) said, “If Allah desires good ‫َي ْس َت ْع ِمل ُه َقا َل يوفقه لعم َصالح قب َموته‬
for a slave He utilizes him. They asked how does
He utilize him? He replied: He gives him the
ability to perform righteous actions before his
death.”

Shaykh al-Fādānī commented that the hadith was related by Imām al-Tirmidhī.14

14
Al-Ujalah fi Al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah (p.41)

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MECCAN SCHOLARS

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH َ‫ا َلمسَلَسَلَبَالَ ي‬

ََ‫ك يَيي‬
OF MAKKAN SCHOLARS

It was narrated to me by Shaykh Muḥammad
Yāsīn al-Fādānī who said; It was narrated to us
by Shaykh ʿAbdullāh bin Muḥammad Ghazi al-
Makkī and Sayyid Aydarus bin Salim al-Bar al-
Makkī, both of them; from Sayyid Hussain bin
Muḥammad al-Habshi al-Makkī; from Shaykh
ʿUmar bin Abd al-Karim al-Attar al-Makkī;
from Abd al-Mālik bin Abd al-Munim bin Taj
al-Dīn al-Qali’ al-Makkī; from his father; from
his grandfather; from Abū al-Asrar Ḥasan bin
ʿAli al-Ujaymi al-Makkī; from Imām Zayn al-
Abidin al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; from his father Abd
al-Qāḍīr bin Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī;
from his grandfather Yaḥyā bin Mukarram bin
Muḥammad al-Muhib al-Akhir al-Ṭabarī al-
Makkī; from his grandfather Abū al-Maali al-
Muhib Muḥammad Ibn al-Radi Muḥammad
bin Al-Muhib al-Awsat Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī
al-Makkī; from the uncle of his father Imām
Abū al-Yaman Muḥammad bin Aḥmad al-
Ṭabarī al-Makkī; from his father Shihāb Aḥmad
bin al-Radi al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; from his father,
the Imām of the Maqam al-Khalil, Allamah Radi
al-Dīn Ibrahīm bin Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm
bin Abī Bakr bin Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm al-
Hussaini al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī, and the chief
Judge Al-Najm Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad the
son of the chief judge Al-Jamāl Muḥammad Ibn
al-Ḥāfiz al-Muhib Abī al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin
‫ َحدث َنا‬:‫َحدث َنا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني قال‬
َّ ‫بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد غَازِي الْ َم ِّك ّي َو‬
‫الس ِّيد‬
‫الس ِّيد‬ َّ ‫عيدروأ بِ ْن َسال الْ َبار الْ َم ِّك ّي ِلَا ُه َما َعن‬
‫ُح َس ْين بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الحبشي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن اْبِيه الْ ُم ْف ِتي‬
‫الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُح َس ْين الحبشي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن الشَّ ْيخ‬ َّ
‫عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َكرِي الْ َع َّار الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن َع ْب ُد الْملك‬
‫بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ ُمنع بِ ْن َتا الدّين القلعي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن اْبِيه‬
ّ ‫َعن جده َعن اْبِي ا ْما ْ ْس َرار حسن بِ ْن َع‬
‫لي العجيمي‬
‫الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ِاما َماح زين العابدين ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن‬
‫اْبِيه َع ْب ُد الْقَا ِدر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن جده‬
‫يحيى بِ ْن مكرح بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الْ ُمحب ا ْماْخير ال َّ َب ِر ّي‬
‫الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن جده اْبِي الْ َم َعالِي الْ ُمحب ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن‬
‫الرضي ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْ ُمحب ا ْما ْ ْو َسط ُم َح َّمد ال َّ َب ِر ّي‬
‫الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن َع اْبِيه ِاما َماح اْبِي الْيمن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد‬
‫الشااأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن الرضي‬ َ ‫ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن اْبِيه‬
‫ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن َوالِده اِ َماح مقَاح الْ َخلِي ال َعلَّا َمة‬
‫َر ِضي الدّين اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن اْبِي‬
‫بكر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي الْ ُح َس ْي ِني ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي‬
‫اضي‬ ِ ‫وقاضي الْق َُضاة ال َّن ْج اْبِي اْ ْحمد ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن َق‬
‫الْق َُضاة الْجمال ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن الْ َح ِاف الْ ُمحب اْبِي‬
‫الْ َع َّباأ اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َقا َل ُه َو‬
‫والشااأ اْ ْحمد ابِ ْن الرضي اْنا ِاما َماح عماد الدّين‬

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ʿAbdullāh al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī. He said as did ‫لي بِ ْن‬ ّ ‫اْ ُبو ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع‬
Shihāb Aḥmad Ibn al-Radi; We were informed
‫الْ ُح َس ْين ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َقا َل ُه َو والرضي ال َّ َب ِر ّي‬
by Imām Imad al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd
al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin ʿAli bin al- ‫َاس َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن‬ ِ ‫الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا الشَّ ْيخ ز ي الدّين اْ ُبو الْق‬
Hussain al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī. He said as did Al- ‫بِ ْن اْبِي حرمي فتوح الْ َكاتِب الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا ِاما َماح الْ َح ِاف‬
Radi al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī; We were informed by ‫مجيد بِ ْن عمر‬ ِ ْ‫خ يب َم َّكة اْ ُبو َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال‬
Shaykh Zaki al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-
‫قرشي الْ َم ْع ُروف بالميانشي الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا ِاما َماح ر ن‬ ِ ْ‫ال‬
Raḥmān bin Abī Hurmi Futuh al-Katib al-
Makkī; We were informed by Imām al-Ḥāfiz, ‫اضي الْ َح َر َم ْينِ اْ ُبو المظفر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َعل ّي‬ ِ ‫ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح َق‬
the Khatib of Makka, Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin Abd ‫بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي اْنا جدي ِاما َماح‬
al-Majid bin ʿUmar al-Qurashi, better known as
al-MayʿAnashi al-Makkī; We were informed by
‫لي بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين‬ ّ ‫َاضي اْ ُبو َع ْب ُد اللّه الْ ُح َس ْين بِ ْن َع‬ ِ ‫الق‬
my grandfather the Imām and Qāḍī, Abū ‫َاس‬ِ ‫لي بِ ْن اْبِي الْق‬ ّ ‫ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َواْ ُبو الْحسن َع‬
ʿAbdullāh al-Hussain bin ʿAli bin al-Hussain ‫خلي بِ ْن هبة اللّه بِ ْن َقاس بِ ْن عمر بِ ْن الشماخ‬
al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī and Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin
‫َاس خلي بِ ْن هبة‬ ِ ‫الْ ِك َنانِي الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي َقا َما اْنا اْ ُبو الْق‬
Abī al-Qāsim Khalaf bin Hibatullah bin Qāsim
bin ʿUmar bin al-Shimakh al-Kinani al- ‫اللّه الْ َم ْذ ُور اْنا اْ ُبو ُم َح َّمد الْحسن بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن‬
Shaybani, both of them said; We were informed ‫اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن فراأ العبقسي الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا اْ ُبو الْحسن‬
by Abū al-Qāsim the son of the aforementioned
‫ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ن َِافع بِ ْن اْ ْحمد ابِ ْن ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن نَافِع‬
Hibatullah; We were informed by Abū
Muḥammad al-Ḥasan bin Aḥmad bin Ibrahīm
‫الْ ُخ َز ِاع ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َواْ ُبو بكر اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َع ْب ُد‬
bin Faras al-Abqasi al-Makkī; We were ‫الْ ُمؤمن َقا َما اْخْ َب َرن ََّا اْ ُبو ُم َح َّمد ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن‬
informed by Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad bin ‫ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن اْبِي بكر الْ ُخ َز ِاع ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي‬
Nafi’ bin Aḥmad Ibn Ishaq bin Nafi’ al-Khuzai
al-Makkī and Abū Bakr Aḥmad bin ʿAbdullāh
‫اْنا ِاما َماح المؤرخ اْ ُبو الْ َولِيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن‬
bin Abd al-Mu’min; Both of them said, were ‫اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الْ َولِيد ا ْما ْ ْز َرقِ ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي ثنى جدي‬
informed by Abū Muḥammad Ishaq bin Aḥmad ‫َعن سعيد بِ ْن َسال ُه َو اْ ُبو ُع ْث َمان القداح الْ َم ِّك ّي‬
bin Ishaq bin Abī Bakr al-Khuzai al-Makkī; We
‫وسلي بِ ْن ُمسل ُه َو الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ابِ ْن جريج ُه َو مفتي‬
were informed by the Imām and historian Abū
al-Walid Muḥammad bin ʿAbdullāh bin ‫َم َّكة َع ْب ُد الْملك بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز الْ َم ِّك ّي‬
Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin al-Walid al-Azraqi ‫َعن َع اء ُه َو ابِ ْن اْبِي َر َباح الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ابِ ْن َع َّباأ‬
al-Makkī; It was narrated to me by my
‫ َقا َل َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ينزل اللّه‬:‫َقا َل‬
grandfather; from Saeed bin Salim, and he is
Abū ʿUthmān al-Qaddah al-Makkī, and Salim
‫َي ْوح َولَ ْي َلة عشْ رين ومئة َر ْح َمة‬ ‫على َه َذا الْ َب ْيت‬
bin Muslim, and he is al-Makkī; from Ibn Jurayj, ‫ِس ُّتو َن ِم ْن َاا لل ائفين َواْ ْر َب ُعو َن للمصلين َو ِعشْ ُرو َن‬
he being the Muftī of Makka Abd al-Mālik bin .‫للناظرين‬
Abd al-Aziz al-Makkī; from Ata, who is Ibn Abī
Rabah al-Makkī; from Ibn ʿAbbās who said:
The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and
give him peace) said, “Allah descends upon this

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house every day and night one hundred and

twenty mercies. Sixty of them are for those
performing tawaf, forty for those praying and
twenty for those looking.”15

Ibn al-Tayyib said: Related by Al-Bayhaqi in Shuab al-Iman, Al-Khatib in his Tarikh, Al-Sabuni in the
second volume of Al-Miatayn and said: Hadith Gharib. Al-Sakhawi said it was graded Ḥasan by Al-
Mundhiri in his Targhib and Al-Iraqi in Takhrij Ahadith al-Ihyā’, it being apparent that he graded it
Ḥasan due to its supporting narrations. He said: The claim of Al-Sabuni that it is Gharib from the
hadith of Ibn Jurayj is not correct, for Al-Bayhaqi said after relating it: It was narrated Yusuf bin
Safar from Al-Awzai, from Ata, from Ibn ʿAbbās. Likewise it was related by Al-Tabarānī in Mujam
al-Kabir said: This hadith has other routes of transmission from Ibn ʿAbbās, it was related by Al-
Tabarānī in Al-Kabir, and Allah knows best.16

15
A brief treatise in explanation of this hadith was authored by the Makkan scholar, well known as the Shaykh
al-Dalail of his era in the Hijaz, Shaykh Abd al-Haq al-Ilahabadi.
16
Al-Ujalah fi Al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah (p.45-46)

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 ASKING A QUESTION

ASKING A QUESTION

THE PATTERN CHAIN REPORT OF َ ‫اَ َلمسَلَسَلَبَالسَؤَالَعنَ ي‬

َ‫السن‬
ASKING A PERSON’S AGE

I asked Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī

regarding his age and he replied, “Mind your
own business.” He related; from Shaykh ʿUmar
Hamdan; from Sayyid ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watri;
from Abd al-Ghani bin Abī Saeed al-Dihlawi;
from Abid al-Sindī; from Sayyid Abd al-Razzaq
al-Bakkari, the author of Al-Qati’; from Abd al-
Khaliq bin Bakr al-Mizjaji; from Abū Ṭāhir
Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm al-Kurani; from
ʿAbdullāh bin Salim al-Basri; from ʿĪsa al-Jafari;
from ʿAli al-Ajhuri; from Burhan al-Alqama;
from Al-Sharaf Abd al-Haq al-Sinbati; from Al-
Ḥāfiz Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin ʿAli bin Hajr
al-Asqalani; from ʿUmar bin Muḥammad bin
Aḥmad bin Sulayman; from his father; from
Abū al-Qāsim; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin
Makkī; from Abū Ṭāhir, each of them saying, “I
asked so and so regarding his age and he replied
with: Mind your own business.” Al-Silafi said: I
asked Abū al-Fath bin Zaban regarding his age
and he replied, ‘mind your own business; for I
asked ʿAli bin Muḥammad al-Laban regarding
his age and he replied, ‘Mind your own
business’; for I asked Abū al-Qāsim Hamza bin
Yusuf al-Sahmi and replied, ‘Mind your own
business’; for I asked Abū Bakr Muḥammad bin
Adiyy al-Manqari regarding his age and he
replied, ‘Mind your own business’; for I asked
‫لت الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني َعن ِس ِّن ِه َفقَا َل‬ ُ ْ‫َسا‬
‫ َساْلت الشَّ ْيخ عمر َح ْمدَان‬:‫اْ ْقبِ ْ َع َلى شَ اْنِكَ َف َقا َل‬
‫لي‬ّ ‫الس ِّيد َع‬ َّ ‫َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َو ُه َو َعن‬
‫بِ ْن َظاهر الوتري َعن َع ْب ُد الْ َغ ِن ّي بِ ْن اْبِي سعيد‬
َّ ‫الدهلوي َعن َعابِد السندي َعن‬
‫الس ِّيد َع ْب ُد ال َّر َّزاق‬
‫البكاري َصاحب الق يع َعن َع ْب ُد الْ َخالِق بِ ْن بكر‬
‫المزجاجي َعن اْبِي َطا ِهر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي الكوراني‬
‫يسى الْ َج ْع َفرِي‬ َ ‫َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َسال الْ َب ْص ِر ّي َعن ِع‬
‫لي اما ْ ْج ُاورِ ّي َعن الْ ُب ْر َهان العلقمي َعن ال ّشرف‬ ّ ‫َعن َع‬
‫شااأ الدّين اْ ْحمد‬ َ ِ‫َع ْب ُد الْحق السنباطي َعن الْ َحاف‬
‫لي بِ ْن حجر الْ َع ْس َقلَانِي َعن عمر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن‬ ّ ‫بِ ْن َع‬
‫َاس َعن َع ْب ُد‬ ِ ‫اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُس َل ْي َمان َعن اْبِيه َعن اْبِي الْق‬
‫ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن مكي َعن اْبِي َطا ِهر َقائِلا َو ِاحد ِم ْن ُا‬
‫َساْلت فلَانا َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َقا َل‬
‫الس َل ِفي َساْلت اْ َبا الْ َف ْتح بِ ْن زبان َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب‬
‫على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي َساْلت عليا بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد اللبان َعن‬
ِ ‫سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي َساْلت اْ َبا الْق‬
‫َاس‬
‫الس ْا ِمي َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي‬ َّ ‫وسي‬ ُ ‫َح ْم َزة بِ ْن ُي‬
‫َساْلت اْ َبا بكر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن عدي الْم ْنقري َعن سنه‬
‫يسى ال ِّت ْر ِم ِذ ّي‬ ْ
َ ‫َفقَا َل اقب على شَ انك َف ِانِّي َساْلت اْ َبا ِع‬
‫َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك َف ِانِّي َساْلت بعض‬

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Abū ʿĪsa al-Tirmidhī regarding his age and he ‫اْ ْص َحاأ الشَّ ِاف ِعي َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ اْنك‬
replied, ‘Mind your own business’; for I asked
‫َف ِانِّي َساْلت الشَّ ِاف ِعي َعن سنه َفقَا َل اقب على شَ ا ْنك‬
one of the companions of Imām al-Shafiʿī
regarding his age, and he replied, ‘Mind your ‫َف ِانِّي َساْلت َمالك بِ ْن ان َعن سنه فَقَا َل اقب على‬
own business’; for I asked Al-Shafi regarding his ‫شَ اْنك َو َقا َل لَ ْي َ من الْم ُرُُ َوءة اِخْ َبار الرج َعن سنه‬
age, and he replied, ‘Mind your own business’; ‫َواِن َا َن َص ِغيرا استحقروه َواِن َا َن َبِيرا استارموه‬
for I questioned Mālik bin ʿAnas regarding his
age and he replied, “It is not from the
honourable conduct of a man to divulge his age,
for if he is young they will regard him as
insignificant and if old they will regard him as
being of no use.”

Shaykh Abid said: Al-Buwayti is meant by the use of the term, “One of the companions of Al-Shafiʿī”
as explicitly mentioned in the Musalsalat of Sharaf bin Abī Asrun as in the first volume of the Fawaid
of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Halabi and others. However Abū Bakr al-Naysaburi mentioned that the person
who questioned Imām al-Shafiʿī was Al-Muzani, and Al-Shafiʿī linked it via Mālik from Rabia’, and
the first view is the more well known. He said: This statement from Imām Mālik has been narrated
by more than one person, amongst them being Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Azdi al-
Māliki.17

17
Manahil al-Salsalah (p.121)

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GRASPING THE BEARD

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF َ‫ا َلمسَلَسَلَبالقبضَعَلََال يلحية‬

18
GRASPING THE BEARD

I was informed by Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-

Fādānī who grasped his beard
19
and said, “I ‫ض‬ َ ‫اْخْ َّ َََََّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني َو َق َب‬
believe in Qadr, it’s good and bad, sweet and ‫َع َلى لِ ْح َي ِت ِه َو َقا َل ا َم ْن ُت ِبالْ قَ َدرِ َخ ْي ِر ِه َو َشََََََّّّّّّ ِّر ِه ُح ْل ِو ِه‬
bitter.” He said; I was informed by Shaykh
ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi and Shaykh ‫ اْخْ َََََََََََّّّّّّّّّّّ ََّب َرنِي بِ ِه ال َّشَََََّّّّّ ْيخ عمر َح ْمدَان‬:‫َو ُم ِّر ِه َف َقا َل‬
ʿAbdullāh bin Muḥammad Ghazi, both of them ‫ال َم ْح َر ِسََََََّّّّّّي َوال َّشََََََّّّّّّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد غَازِي‬
grasped his beard and said, “I believe in Qadr,
its good and bad, sweet and bitter.” The first of ِ‫ض َُّ ِم ْن ُا َمَّا َع َلى لِ ْح َي ِتَّ ِه َو َقَّا َل ا َم ْنَّ ُت بَِّالْ َقَّ َدر‬ َ ‫َو َق َب‬
‫لي بِ ْن‬ ّ ‫َخ ْي ِر ِه َو َشََََّّّّ ِّر ِه ُح ْل ِو ِه َو ُم ِّر ِه اماول َعن ال َّسََََّّّّ ِّيد َع‬
them from Sayyid ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watri and
the second from Abd al-Jalil Barradah al-
Madani, both of them; from Abd al-Ghani al- ‫َظاهر الوتري َوال ثَّانِي َعن َع ْب ُد الْ َجلِ ي برادة الْ مدنِي‬
Dihlawi; from Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī; from ‫ِ لَ ا ُه َما َعن َع ْب ُد الْ َغ ِن ّي الدهلوي َعن ُم َح َّمد َعا ِبد‬
Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Sulaiman al-Ahdal;
from Amrullah bin Abd al-Khaliq bin Abī Bakr ‫الس ِّيد َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُس َل ْي َمان اماهدل‬ َّ ‫السندي َعن‬
al-Mizjaji; from Muḥammad bin Aḥmad better ‫َعن ْامر ال ّله بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ا ْل َخالِق بِ ْن ْابِي بكر المزجاجي‬
known as Ibn Aqilah al-Makkī; from Ḥasan bin
ʿAli al-Ujaymi; from ʿĪsa bin Muḥammad al- ‫َعن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ْاح َمد الشاير بِابِ ْن عقيلة الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن‬
Jafari; from Nur ʿAli al-Ajhuri ‫لي العجيمي َعن ِعي َس َََََّّّّّى بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬ ّ ‫حس َََََّّّّّن بِ ْن َع‬
[Another Chain]
It was also narrated by Muḥammad Abid; from ّ ‫الْ َج ْع َفرِي َعن ال ُّنور َع‬
‫لي اما ْ ْج ُاورِ ّي‬
his uncle Muḥammad Hussain al-Ansari; from

18
Shaykh ʿAbbās Ridwan al-Hasani al-Madani (1293-1346H) said in his Fath al-Bar bi Sharḥ Bulugh al-Watr
min Mustalah Ahl al-Athar (p.48), "Perhaps the grasping of the beard is an indication that the matter is in the
hands of Allah Most High...It is thus said in the common saying, “The beard of so and so is in my hand”,
meaning under my control and decision, I deal with him as I wish. Likewise from it are His words Most High,
“There is no creature except that He (Allah Most High) holds it by its forelock.”
19
Shaykh al-Fādānī even narrated this hadith from his female teachers such as Shaykha Amatullah the daughter
of Shaykh Abd al-Ghani al-Mujaddidi. His students such as Shaykh Khalid al-Turkestani mention from him
that he saw Shaykha Amatullah grasp her chin when narrating this hadith.

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Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Muḥammad ‫(ح) َو َر َوا ُه ُم َح َّمد َعا ِبد اْ ْيضَََََََّّّّّّّا َعن َع مه ُم َح َّمد‬
al-Maghribi; from ʿAbdullāh bin Salim al-Basri;
from Shams Muḥammad bin Ala al-Dīn al-
‫ُح َس َّ ْين ا ْمانْ َص َّارِ ّي َعن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
Babili; from Nur ʿAli al-Ajhuri; from Badr ‫المغربي َعن َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن َسال ا ْل َب ْص ِر ّي َعن الشَّ ْم‬
Muḥammad bin al-Radi al-Ghazzi; from Abū al-
fath Muḥammad bin Muḥammad al-Mizzi;
‫لي‬ّ ‫ُم َح َّم ََّّد بِ ْن َع َل ََّّاء ال ََّّدّين الب ََّّابلي َعن ال ُّنور َع‬
from Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin ʿAli, the ‫اما ْ ْج ُاورِ ّي َعن الْ َب ْدر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الرض ََََّّّّي الْ َغ ِّزي َعن‬
Muadhin in Ṣāliḥiyyah in Damascus; from
Kamal Abū ʿAbdullāh Ibn Muḥammad bin al-
‫اْبِي الْ َف ْتح ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الْمزي َعن اْبِي الْ َع َّباأ‬
Nahhas and Abū Hurayrah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ‫لي الْ ُم َؤ ّذن بصالحية دمشق َعن الْ َك َمال‬ ّ ‫ْا ْحمد بِ ْن َع‬
Ibn al-Ḥāfiz al-Dhahabi, both of them; from
Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-
‫اْبِي َع ْب ُد اللّه ابِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن النّحاأ َواْبِي ُه َر ْي َرة َع ْب ُد‬
Ba’li; from Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin ‫ال َّر ْح َمن ابِ ْن الْ َح ََّّ ِاف ال ََّّ َّذ َهبِ ّي ِ َل ََّّا ُه َم ََّّا َعن اْبِي‬
Ismāʿīlbin Aḥmad al-mardawi, the Khatib of
Marda; from Abū al-Faraj Yaḥyā bin Mahmud
‫الْ َع َّباأ اْ ْح مد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن البعلي َعن اْبِي َع ْب ُد‬
al-Thaqafi; from his greatgrandfather Ḥāfiz Abū ‫اللّه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ا ِْس َم ِاعي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد المرداوي خ يب‬
al-Qāsim Ismāʿīlbin Muḥammad al-Tamimi;
from Shaykh Abū Bakr Aḥmad bin ʿAli bin
‫مردا َعن ْابِي ا ْلفر يحيى بِ ْن َم ْح ُمود الثَّ َق ِف ّي َعن‬
Khalaf al-Shirazi; from Imām Abū ʿAbdullāh ‫جده مامه الْ َح ِاف اْبِي الْقَا ِس َّ اِ ْس َّ َم ِاعي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
Muḥammad bin ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim al-
Naysaburi; It was narrated to us by Zubair bin
‫لي بِ ْن‬ ّ ‫ال َّت ِمي ِمي َعن ال َّشََََََّّّّّّ ْيخ اْبِي بكر اْ ْحمََّّد بِ ْن َع‬
Abd al-Wahid al-Asadabadi; It was narrated to ‫خلي ال ِّش ََّّ َيرازِ ّي َعن ِاما َماح اْبِي َع ْب ُد اللّه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن‬
us by Abū al-Ḥasan Yusuf bin Abd al-Ahad al-
Shafiʿī; It was narrated to us by Sulaiman bin
‫َع ْب ُد ال ّله ا ْل َحا ِ ال َّن ْي َسَََََََّّّّّّّا ُبورِي َث َنا الزبير بِ ْن َع ْب ُد‬
Shuayb al-Kasai; It was narrated to us Saeed al- ‫وسي بِ ْن َع ْب ُد‬ ُ ‫الْ َو ِاحد ا ْما سد ابادي َث َنا اْ ُبو الْحسن ُي‬
Adam; It was narrated to us by Shihāb bin
Kharash who said: I heard Yazid al-Raqashi
‫كسائي َث َنا‬ َ ْ‫الش ِاف ِعي َث َنا ُس َل ْي َمان بِ ْن ُش َع ْيب ال‬ َّ ‫ا ْما ْ َحد‬
narrate from ʿAnas bin Mālik who said: The ‫خراش َقا َل َس ِمعت يزِيد‬ َ ‫شااأ بِ ْن‬ َ ‫سعيد ا ْمادح َث َنا‬
Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give
him peace) said: A slave does not taste the
‫الرقا ِش َّي يحدث َعن ان بِ ْن َمالك َقا َل َقا َل َر ُس َّ ْو ُل‬
sweetness of faith until he believes in Qadr, the ‫ َما َي ِج ُد الْ َع ْب ُد َحل ََاو َة‬: ‫اللّه ص ََََّّّّلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوس ََََّّّّل‬
good and the bad, sweet and bitter.
He said: Then the Messenger of Allah (Allah
‫ َو ُح ْل ِو ِه‬،‫ َح َّتى ُيؤ ِْم َن ِبا ْل قَ َدرِ َخ ْي ِر ِه َو َشََََََّّّّّّ ِّر ِه‬،‫اما َيم ِان‬ ِ
bless him and give peace) grasped his beard and ‫ض َر ُسَََََّّّّّو ُل اللّه َصَََََّّّّّلَّى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه‬ َ ‫ َو َق َب‬:‫ َقا َل‬. »‫َو ُم ِّر ِه‬
said, “I believe in Qadr, the good and bad, sweet
and bitter.” Thus said each of the narrators.
،‫«ا َم ْن ُت بِالْ َق َدرِ َخ ْي ِر ِه َو َش ََََّّّّ ِّر ِه‬:‫ و َقا َل‬،‫َو َس ََََّّّّلَّ َ بِلِ ْح َي ِت ِه‬
I say, whilst I am grasping my beard, with a ‫ُح ْل ِو ِه َو ُم ِّر ِه‬
truthful intention and sound belief, “I believe in
Qadr, its good and bad, sweet and bitter.”

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‫َو َه َك َذا َقا َل ُ ُّ َراو ِمن ال َّر َواة َواْقُول َواْنا َقابِض َع َلى‬
‫لِ ْح َي ِتي َعن نِ َّية َص ََََََّّّّّّا ِد َقة َو َع ِق ْي َدة َصََََََّّّّّّ ِح ْي َحة ا َم ْن ُت‬
‫بِالْ َق َدرِ َخ ْي ِر ِه َوشَ ِّر ِه ُح ْل ِو ِه َو ُم ِّر ِه‬

Ayyub al-Khalwati said: This hadith is Ṣaḥīḥ and good. However Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Aqilah
said: This hadith was related by al-Ḥākim, al-Khali’, Abū Nuʿaym, and there is some weakness in it.
Al-Qawaqji said: It related by Ibn Asakir in his Tarikh with a pattern chain. Ibn al-Tayyib said that
this is how it was related by al-Ḥākim in the section of Musalsal hadith in his work on the sciences
of hadith. It was also related Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Ma’rifah in a pattern form, as also by Al-Dibaji and
from Ibn Al-Mufaddal in their Musalsal hadith collections, Al-Ghaznawi and al-Khali’ in his Fawaid,
Abd al-Ghaffar al-Sa’di in his Musalsalat and others, and it is not free of weakness.
Shaykh Abd al-Baqi al-Ayyubi commented: I say: I do not know of the reason for its weakness, for
all of its narrators are trustworthy, Shihāb was declared trustworthy by Ibn al-Mubarak, Abū Zurah,
Ibn Main and Al-Ijli. As for the statement of Ibn Adiyy that there is in some of his narrations that
which is reprehensible, then it does not harm him as a narrator.20

20
Manahil al-Salsalah (p.69)

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10

ENDING WITH DUA

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF ََ‫اَ َلمسَلَسَلَبختمَالجلَسَبالدعاء‬

FINISHING A GATHERING WITH DUA

Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī informed
us when he finished from his reading he made
dua for the those in the gathering and said; The
most learned scholar and hadith specialist
Sayyid Muḥammad bin Muḥammad Zabarah
al-Hasani al-Sanani al-Yamani informed us in
Makka, when he finished from his reading he
made dua for the those in the gathering and
said; It was narrated to us by Shaykh al-Islām
Qāḍī ʿAli bin ʿAli al-Yamani al-Sanani and
ʿAbdullāh bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-
Jandari, when both of them finished reading
they made dua for us and ended the gathering
with dua, both of them said; It was narrated to
us by Allamah al-Sayyid Ismāʿīlbin Muhsin bin
Abd al-Karim Ishaq al-Hasani al-Sanani, when
he finished reading he made dua for us and
finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was
narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Allamah Aḥmad bin
Zayd al-Kabsi and ʿAbdullāh bin Muḥammad
bin ʿAli al-Shawkani, when of them finished
reading thye made dua for us and finished the
gathering with dua. They both said;
It was narrated to us by Shaykh al-Islām Qāḍī
Muḥammad bin ʿAli al-Shawlani, when he
finished reading he made dua for us and
finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was
narrated to us by Allamah Al-Nur Abū al-Ḥasan
ʿAli bin Ibrahīm bin Amir al-Shahid al-Sanani
‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّا بِ ِه الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني َف َل َّما فرغ‬
‫مجل َوخت بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقال‬ ْ ْ‫من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا ماه ال‬
‫الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬ َّ ‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّا بِ ِه ال َعلَّا َمة الْمسند‬:
‫الص ْن َعانِ ّي الْ َي َمانِ ّي بِ َم َّكة َف َل َّما فرغ من‬ َّ ‫زباره الحسني‬
‫مجل َوخت بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َث َنا‬ ْ ْ‫الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا ماه ال‬
‫الص ْن َعانِ ّي‬
َّ ‫لي الْ َي َمانِ ّي‬
ّ ‫لي بِ ْن َع‬ّ ‫َاضي َع‬ ِ ‫شيخ ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح الق‬
‫َو َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الجنداري َف َل َّما فرغ‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء‬ ْ ْ‫ِم ْن ُا َما من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫الس ِّيد ا ِْس َم ِاعي بِ ْن محسن بِ ْن‬ َّ ‫َقا َما َحدث َنا ال َعلَّا َمة‬
‫الص ْن َعانِ ّي َف َل َّما فرغ من‬ َّ ‫َع ْب ُد الْ َكرِي ا ِْس َحاق الحسني‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا‬ ْ ْ‫الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫الس ِّيد ال َع َّلا َمة اْ ْحمد بِ ْن زيد الكبسي َو َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن‬ َّ
‫ِم ْن ُا َما من‬ ‫لي الشَّ ْو َانِ ّي َفلَ َّما فرغ‬ ّ ‫ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َما َحدث َنا‬ ْ ْ‫الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫لي الشَّ ْو َانِ ّي َف َل َّما‬ّ ‫َاضي ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع‬ ِ ‫شيخ ا ْم ِا ْسلَاح الق‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل‬ ْ ْ‫فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫لي بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن‬ ّ ‫َحدث َنا ال َعلَّا َمة ال ُّنور اْ ُبو الْحسن َع‬
‫الص ْن َعانِ ّي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا‬ َّ ‫َعامر الشَّ ِايد‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا َح ِامد بِ ْن حسن‬ ْ ْ‫َوخت ال‬
‫مجل‬ْ ْ‫شَ ا ر َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
َّ ‫بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا‬
‫وسي‬ ُ ‫الس ِّيد ال َعلَّا َمة اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُي‬
‫بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين الْعلوِي القاسمي الحسني َف َل َّما فرغ من‬

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when he finished reading he made dua for us
and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It
was narrated to us by Hāmid bin Ḥasan Shakir
when he finished reading he made dua for us
and finished the gathering with dua;
It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Allamah
Aḥmad bin Yusuf bin al-Hussain al-Alawi al-
Qasimi al-Hasani when he finished reading he
made dua for us and finished the gathering with
dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid
Burhan al-Dīn Ibrahīm bin al-Qāsim bin al-
Imām al-Muayyid when he finished reading he
made dua for us and finished the gathering with
dua; It was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid al-
Hussain bin Aḥmad Zabarah when he finished
reading he made dua for us and finished the
gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to
us by Abd al-Aziz bin Muḥammad al-Hubayshi
when he finished reading he made dua for us
and finished the gathering with dua, he said; It
was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Al-Hadi bin
Aḥmad al-Jalal when he finished reading he
made dua for us and finished the gathering with
dua. He said; It was narrated to us by Abd al-
Qāḍīr bin Ziyad al-Khawasti, when he finished
reading he made dua for us and finished the
gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to
us by Abd al-Aziz bin Taqi al-Dīn al-Hubayshi
when he finished reading he made dua for us
and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It
was narrated to us by Al-Sayyid Ṭāhir bin
Hussain al-Ahdal al-Zabidi when he finished
reading he made dua for us and finished the
gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to
us by Al-Wajih ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin ʿAli bin
Muḥammad bin al-Daybi’ a;-Shaybani when he
finished reading he made dua for us and
finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was
narrated to us by Abū al-ʿAbbās Zayn al-Dīn
Aḥmad bin Aḥmad bin Abd al-Laṭīf al-Sharji in
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا‬ ْ ‫ا ْل ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ا ْل‬
‫َاس بِ ْن ِاما َماح‬ ِ ‫الس ِّيد بر َهان الدّين اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن الْق‬ َّ
‫مجل‬ ْ ْ‫الْ ُم َؤيد َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫الس ِّيد الْ ُح َس ْين بِ ْن اْ ْحمد زباره‬ َّ ‫بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء‬ ْ ْ‫َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫َقا َل َحدث َنا َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الحبيشي َف َل َّما فرغ‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا‬ ْ ْ‫من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫الس ِّيد الْ َاا ِدي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الْجلَال َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة‬ َّ
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا َع ْب ُد الْقَا ِدر‬ ْ ْ‫َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫بِ ْن زِ َياد الخواستي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا َع ْب ُد الْ َعزِيز بِ ْن َت ِق ّي الدّين‬ ْ ْ‫ال‬
ْ ْ‫الحبيشي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫مجل‬
‫الس ِّيد َطا ِهر بِ ْن ُح َس ْين اماهدل‬ َّ ‫بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا‬
‫مجل‬ ْ ْ‫الزبي ِد ّي فَ َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫لي بِ ْن‬ ّ ‫بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا الْ َو ِجيه َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن َع‬
‫ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن الديبع الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي َفلَ َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا اْ ُبو الْ َع َّباأ زين‬ ْ ْ‫لنا َوخت ال‬
‫الدّين اْ ْحمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد اللَّ ِ يي الشرجي بزبيد‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء‬ ْ ْ‫َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫َقا َل َحدث َنا نَ ِفي الدّين ُس َل ْي َمان بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي الْعلوِي‬
‫البوماني ال َّر ِاش ِدي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا الْمسند جمال الدّين اْ ُبو‬ ْ ْ‫ال‬
‫َع ْب ُد اللّه ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن الحبيشي َف َل َّما فرغ‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل‬ ْ ْ‫من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫َحدث ِني َوالِدي َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت‬
ِ ْ ْ‫ال‬
‫لي‬ّ ‫مجل بِال ُّد َعاء َقا َل َحدث َنا اْ ُبو َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع‬
‫الشرعبي بتعز الْيمن َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا‬
‫َاضي اْ ُبو‬ ِ ‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا الق‬ ْ ْ‫َوخت ال‬
‫ا ِْس َحاق اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن اْبِي بكر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي‬
‫مجل َد َعا لنا َوخت‬ ْ ْ‫ال َّ َب ِر ّي َف َل َّما فرغ من ال‬

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Zabid when he finished reading he made dua for
us and finished the gathering with dua. He said;
It was narrated to us by Nafis al-Dīn Sulayman
bin Ibrahīm al-Alawi al-Bulani al-Rashidi, when
he finished reading he made dua for us and
finished the gathering with dua. He said;
It was narrated by the hadith specialist Jamāl al-
Dīn Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-
Raḥmān al-Hubayshi when he finished reading
he made dua for us and finished the gathering
with dua. He said; It was narrated to me by my
father, when he finished reading he made dua
for us and finished the gathering with dua. He
said; It was narrated to me Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin
ʿAli al-Sharabi in Ti’z in Yemen, when he
finished reading he made dua for us and
finished the gathering with dua. He said; It was
narrated to us by Qāḍī Abū Ishaq Ibrahīm bin
Abī Bakr Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm al-Ṭabarī,
when he finished reading he made dua for us
and finished the gathering with dua. He said; It
was narrated to us by the jurist Abū al-Qāsim
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Hurmi Futuh bin
Banin al-Katib al-Makkī, when he finished
reading he made dua for us and finished the
gathering with dua. He said; It was narrated to
us by Siraj al-Dīn Abū Hafs ʿUmar bin Abd al-
Majid al-MayʿAnashi al-Qurashi, when he
finished reading he made dua for us and
finished the gathering with dua. He said; We
were informed by Abū al-Ṭāhir Yaḥyā bin
Muḥammad al-Mahamili in a similar way, he
said; We were informed by Abū al-Ḥasan Jābir
bin Yasir al-Hanai in a similar way, he said; We
were informed by Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad bin
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhlafi in a similar way.
He said; I was informed by Abū Jafar Aḥmad
bin Ishaq bin Bahlul in a similar way, he said; I
was informed by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Mahdi in
a similar way, he said; I was informed by Mālik
‫َاس َع ْب ُد‬ ِ ‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل َحدث َنا ا ْل َف ِقيه ْا ُبو الْق‬ ْ ‫ا ْل‬
‫ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اْبِي حرمي فتوح بِ ْن بِ ْن َين الْ َكاتِب الْ َم ِّك ّي‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء‬ ْ ْ‫َف َل َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا لنا َوخت ال‬
‫َقا َل َحدث َنا سرا الدّين اْ ُبو َح ْفص عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد‬
‫قرشي َفلَ َّما فرغ من الْ ِق َر َاءة َد َعا‬ ِ ْ‫مجيد الميانشي ال‬ ِ ْ‫ال‬
‫مجل بِال ُّد َعا ِء َقا َل اْخْ َب َرن ََّا اْ ُبو ال َّا ِهر‬ ْ ْ‫لنا َوخت ال‬
‫لي الشَّ ْي َبانِ ّي ال َّ َب ِر ّي َ َذلِك َقا َل‬ ّ ‫المظفر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع‬
‫مح ِاملِي َ َذلِك‬ َ ْ‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّا اْ ُبو ال َّا ِهر يحيى بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد ال‬
‫َقا َل اْنا اْ ُبو الْحسن َجابر بِ ْن َياسر الحنائي َ َذلِك َقا َل‬
‫اْنا اْ ُبو َطا ِهر ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن المخلفي َ َذلِك‬
‫َقا َل اْنا اْ ُبو َج ْعفَر اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن بِ ِه لُول َ َذلِك‬
‫َقا َل اْنا اْبِي ِاما َماح ا ِْس َحاق بِ ْن بِ ِه لُول َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا‬
‫مادي َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا َمالك بِ ْن ان‬ ْ ‫َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن‬
‫َ َذلِك َقا َل اْنا ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن ِش َااأ َ َذلِك اْناَ ُع ْر َوة‬
‫َ َذلِك َقا َل َحدَّثت َنا َعائِشَ ة فَ َل َّما َف َر َغت ِم َن الْ ِق َرا َءة‬
‫مجلِ بِال ُّد َعا ِء َو َقالَت َا َن‬ ْ َ‫َد َع ْت لَ َنا َو َخ َت َم ْت ال‬
‫َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اِ َذا َف َر َغ ِمن َح ِد ْي ِث ِه‬
‫َواْ َرا َد اْن َي ُق ْوح ِمن َم ْجلِ ِس ِه َيقُول اللّا َّ ا ْغ ِف ْر لَ َنا َما‬
َ‫اْخْ َانَا َو َما َت َع َّم ْدنَا َو َما اْ ْس َر ْرنَا َو َما اْ ْع َل َّنا َو َما اْنْ َت اْ ْعل‬
‫بِ ِه ِم َّنا اْنْ َت الُم َق ّدح َواْنْ َت ال ُم َؤخِّ ر َما اِلَه اِ َّما اْنْ َت‬
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bin ʿAnas in a similar way, he said; I was َ

informed by Muḥammad bin Shihāb in a similar
َ
way, [he said]; I was informed by Urwah in a
similar way, he said: َ
Aisha narrated to us, and when she had finished
َ
from the reading she supplicated for us and
ended the gathering with a prayer and said, “The َ
Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give َ
him peace) when he would finish his speech and
َ
wished to stand up from his sitting place would
say: O Allah, for give us for the mistakes which
we have made, that which has been deliberate,
that which has been in secret, that which has
been public and that which You are more
knowledgeable of than us. You are the First and
the Last and there is no god except You.”

This hadith was mentioned as the final narration by Shaykh al-Fādānī in his work Al-Ujalah fi Al-
Ahadith al-Musalsalah without any reference.

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11

THE TIMES WE LIVE IN

THE PATTERN CHAIN ḤADĪTH OF

َ‫مسلسلَبَــــَ«يرح ممَاّللهَ مفَلنًاَكيفَلو‬
THE STATEMENT, “ALLĀH HAVE
MERCY ON SO AND SO, WHAT IF
»‫أدركَزمانفَناَهذا‬
THEY HAD LIVED IN OUR TIME”
، ‫اْخْ َب َرنَا ال َّش َََََّّّّّيخ َع ْبد ال َّر ْح َمن بِن اْبِي َب َكر ال ُم َّلا‬
We were informed by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā who said; our Shaykh
، ‫ َقا َل َش َََّّّيخناَ ُع ْمر بِن َح ْم َدان ال َم ْح َر ِس َََّّّي‬: ‫َقا َل‬
ʿUmar bin Hamdan al-Mahrasi said; we were ‫الَّسيد ُم َح ّم َّد َعلِ َّي الَّ َو ْت ِري بِ ََّس َن ِد ِه‬
َّ ‫ اْخْ َب َرنَا‬:‫َقا َل‬
informed by Al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAli al- ‫ قال‬: ‫اِلَى ُع ْر َوة َعن َعائِشَ ة َر ِضي اﷲ َعناا َقالَ ْت‬
Watri with his chain to Urwah from ʿĀ’ishah
(Allah be pleased with her) who said: The
‫ وقالت‬، ‫ا َّن ِم َن الشِّ ْع ِر لَ ِح ْك َم ًة‬: ‫رسول اﷲ ﷺ‬
Messenger of Allah ‫ﷺ‬ said, “In some poetry ‫ وهو‬، ‫ َي ْر َح ُ اﷲُ لَبِ ْيداﹰ‬: ‫عائش ََّّة رض ََّّي اﷲ عناا‬
there is certainly wisdom.” ʿĀ’ishah (Allah be : ‫الذي يقول‬
pleased with her) said: Allāh have mercy on
Labid, for he is the one who said: ْ ‫اش ِفي اْ ْ َن ِاف ِا‬ ُ ‫َذ َه َب الَّ ِذ َين ُي َع‬
ْ ‫اش ِفي اْ ْ َن ِاف ِا‬ ُ ‫َذ َه َب الَّ ِذ َين ُي َع‬ ‫يت ِفي َخ َل ٍي َِج ْل ِد ا ْما ْ ْج َر ِأ‬ ُ ‫َو َب ِق‬
‫يت ِفي َخ َل ٍي َِج ْل ِد ا ْما ْ ْج َر ِأ‬ ُ ‫َو َب ِق‬ ‫َي َتاْ َّلُو َن َملا َم ًة َو َم َذ َّم ًة‬
‫َي َتاْ َّلُو َن َملا َم ًة َو َم َذ َّم ًة‬ ‫َب‬ ِ ‫اأ َقائِلُ ُا ْ َواِ ْن لَ ْ َيشْ غ‬ ُ ‫َو ُي َع‬
‫َب‬ِ ‫اأ َقائِلُ ُا ْ َواِ ْن لَ ْ َيشْ غ‬ ُ ‫َو ُي َع‬ ‫ي‬ َ ‫ َ ْي‬،‫ َي ْر َح ُ اﷲُ لَبِ ْيداﹰ‬:‫ قالت عائشَََّّّة‬: ‫قال عروة‬
ُ‫ َي ْر َح ُ اﷲ‬: ‫لَو اْ ْد َر َك َز َمانَ َنا َهَّ َََّّّ َذا ؟ وقَّ َََّّّال عَّ َََّّّروة‬
Urwah reported that ʿĀ’ishah said, Allah have
mercy on Labid, how would it have been if he : ‫ل هشاح‬ َ ‫ي لَو اْ ْد َر َت َز َمانَ َنا َه َذا؟ َو َقا‬ َ ‫ َ ْي‬،‫َعائِشَ ة‬
had lived in our time? ‫ يََََّّّّي لََََّّّّو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟‬، ‫يرح اﷲ عََََّّّّروة‬
Urwah said: Allāh have mercy on Aisha, how
‫ يي لو ادرك‬، ‫ يرح اﷲ هشَََََّّّّّاماﹰ‬: ‫وقال و يع‬
would it have been if he had lived in our time?
Hisham said: Allāh have mercy on Urwah, how ‫ يي‬، ً ‫ يرح اﷲ و يعا‬: ‫زماننا هذا ؟ وقال علي‬
would it have been if he had lived in our time? ‫ يََََََََّّّّّّّّرح اﷲ‬: ‫لو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ وقال ابو بشر‬
Waki’ said: Allāh have mercy on Hisham, how
‫ يَّ َََّّّي لَّ َََّّّو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ وقال ابن‬، ‫عليَّ َََّّّاﹰ‬
would it have been if he had lived in our time?
ʿAli said: Allāh have mercy on Waki’, how ‫ يي لو ادرك زماننا‬، ‫ يرح اﷲ ابا بشََّّر‬: ‫حسََّّاح‬
would it have been if he had lived in our time? ، ‫ يرح اﷲ ابن حساح‬: ‫هَََّّّذا؟ وقَََّّّال ابو الحسين‬

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Abū Bishr said: Allāh have mercy on ʿAli, how
would it have been if he had lived in our time?
Ibn Hussam said: Allāh have mercy on Abū
Bishr, how would it have been if he had lived in
our time?
Abū al-Hussain said: Allāh have mercy on Ibn
Hussam, how would it have been if he had lived
in our time?
Ibn Badran said: Allāh have mercy on Abū al-
Hussain, how would it have been if he had lived
in our time?
Al-Silafi said: Allāh have mercy on Ibn Badran,
how would it have been if he had lived in our
time?
Al-Hamdani said: Allāh have mercy on Al-Silafi,
how would it have been if he had lived in our
time?
Abū al-Fadl Sulaiman said: Allāh have mercy on
Jafar al-Hamdani, how would it have been if he
had lived in our time?
Al-Alai said; Allāh have mercy on Sulaiman,
how would it have been if he had lived in our
time?
Ibn Zahirah said: Allāh have mercy on Al-Alai,
how would it have been if he had lived in our
time?
Umm Hani said: Allāh have mercy on Ibn
Zahirah, how would it have been if he had lived
in our time?
Ḥāfiz al-Suyuti said: Allāh have mercy on Umm
Hani, how would it have been if she had lived in
our time?
Ibn ʿAbd al-Ghaffar said: Allāh have mercy on
Jalal al-Suyuti, how would it have been if he had
lived in our time?
Qutb al-Dīn said: Allāh have mercy on our
Shaykh bin ʿAbd al-Ghaffar, how would it have
been if he had lived in our time?
‫ يرح‬: ‫يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ وقال ابن بدران‬
‫ يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ وقال‬، ‫اﷲ ابا الحسين‬
‫ يَََّّّي لَََّّّو ادرك‬، ‫ يرح اﷲ ابن بَََّّّدران‬: ‫السلفي‬
، ‫ يرح اﷲ السََّّلفي‬: ‫زماننا هذا ؟ وقال الامداني‬
‫يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟ وقَّال ابوالفض سليمان‬
‫ يَّي لَّو ادرك‬، ‫ يَّرح اﷲ جعفَّراﹰ الامَّداني‬:
، ‫ يرح اﷲ سليمان‬:‫زماننَََّّّا هَََّّّذا ؟ وقَََّّّال العلائي‬
: ‫يي لو ادرك زماننَََّّّا هَََّّّذا؟ وقَََّّّال ابَََّّّن ظاَََّّّيرة‬
‫ يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟‬، ‫يَََََََََّّّّّّّّّرح اﷲ العلائي‬
‫ يَّي لَّو‬، ‫ يرح اﷲ ابن ظاَّيرة‬: ‫وقالت اح هانيء‬
‫ يرح‬:‫ادرك زماننا هذا ؟ قال الحاف السََََََّّّّّّيوطي‬
‫ يي لو ادر ت زماننا هذا؟ وقال‬، ‫اﷲ اح هانيء‬
،‫ يرح اﷲ الجلََّّال السََََََّّّّّّيوطي‬: ‫ابن عبََّّدالغفََّّار‬
: ‫يي لَََّّّو ادرك زماننَََّّّا هَََّّّذا؟ وقَََّّّال ق ب الدين‬
‫ يي لََََََّّّّّّو‬، ‫يرح اﷲ شيخنا احمد بن عبدالغفار‬
: ‫ادرك زماننَّ َََّّّا هَّ َََّّّذا؟ وقَّ َََّّّال الشيخ احمد العج‬
‫ يي لو ادرك زماننَّ َََََََََّّّّّّّّّا‬، ‫يرح اﷲ ق ب الدين‬
‫ يرح اﷲ احمد‬: ‫هَّ ََّّذا؟ وقَّ ََّّال مَّ ََّّوماي الشريي‬
‫ يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟ قال الشََََََّّّّّّيخ‬، ‫العج‬
، ‫ يرح اﷲ موماي الشََّّريي‬:‫محمد ابن س ََّّ َََََََّّّّّّّنة‬
‫يي لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟ وقََََّّّّال الََََّّّّشيخ صََََّّّّالح‬
‫ يي‬، ‫ يرح اﷲ الشيخ محمد بن سنة‬: ‫الفَّلاني‬
: ‫لو ادرك زماننا هذا؟ وقال الَََّّّشيخ محمَََّّّد عابَََّّّد‬
‫ يي لو ادرك‬،‫يرح اﷲ ش ََّّيخنا ص ََّّالح الفلاني‬
‫ يرح اﷲ‬:‫ز ماننا هذا ؟ وقال الشََََََّّّّّّيخ عبدالغني‬
‫ يي لو ادرك‬، ‫شيخنا الشيخ محمد عابد السندي‬
‫ يرح‬: ‫زماننا هذا؟ وقال السيد محمد علي الوتري‬
‫ يي لو ادرك‬، ‫اﷲ الشََََََّّّّّّيخ عبد الغني الدهلوي‬
: ‫زماننا هذا؟ وقَّال الَّشيخ عمر حمدان المحرسي‬
‫يرح اﷲ شََََََّّّّّّيخنا السََََََّّّّّّيد محمد علي بن ظاهر‬

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Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ajl said: Allāh have mercy on ‫ وقال الشَّ يخ‬، ‫ يَّي لَّو ادرك زماننا هذا؟‬، ‫الوتري‬
Qutb al-Dīn, how would it have been if he had
‫ يرح اﷲ ش ََََّّّّيخنا‬:‫َع ْبد ال َّر ْح َمن بِن اْبِي َب َكر ال ُملَّا‬
lived in our time?
Mawlay al-Sharif said: Allāh have mercy on ‫ يي لو ادرك‬، ‫الَّشيخ عمَّربن حمدان المحرسي‬
Aḥmad al-Ajl, how would it have been if he had ‫ يرح اﷲ شيخنا الشَّ يخ‬:‫ وانا اقول‬، ‫زماننا هَّ ََّّذا ؟‬
lived in our time? ‫ يَّ ََّّي لَّ ََّّو ادرك‬، ‫َع ْبد ال َّر ْح َمن بِن اْبِي َب َكر ال ُملَّا‬
Shaykh Muḥammad Ibn Sinnah said: Allāh have
mercy on Mawlay al-Sharif, how would it have
‫زماننَّا هذا؟‬
been if he had lived in our time?
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fulani said: Allāh have mercy
on Shaykh Muḥammad bin Sinnah, how would
it have been if he had lived in our time?
Shaykh Muḥammad Abid said: Allāh have
mercy on our Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fulani, how
would it have been if he had lived in our time?
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghani said: Allāh have mercy
on our Shaykh Muḥammad Abid al-Sindī, how
would it have been if he had lived in our time?
Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAli al-Watri saod: Allāh
have mercy on Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghani al-
Dihlawi, how would it have been if he had lived
in our time?
Shaykh ʿUmar Hamdan al-Mahrasi said: Allāh
have mercy on our Shaykh Sayyid Muḥammad
ʿAli bin Zahir al-Watri, how would it have been
if he had lived in our time?
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā
said: Allāh have mercy on Shaykh ʿUmar
Hamdan al-Mahrasi, how would it have been if
he had lived in our time?
I say: Allāh have mercy on Shaykh ʿAbd al-
Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al-Mullā, how would it
have been if he had lived in our time?

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Ibn Fahd said in Al-Mawahib al-Saniyyah: Al-Alai said that the hadith was Ṣaḥīḥ in terms of its pattern
chain, and it has been transmitted by other than this route. Ibn al-Tayyib said that the scholars of
Musalsal narrations are agreed upon relating it.21

21
Ithaf al-Ikhwan (p.165)

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12

THE CHAPTER OF THE ROW

THE PATTERN CHAIN ḤADĪTH OF َ‫اَلمَسَلَسَلَبَ مَسوَرَةََالصَف‬

THE RECITAL OF SURAH AL-SAFF

We were informed by Shaykh Muḥammad

‫ اْخْ َب َرن ََّا‬:‫ قال‬، ‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّا الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسين الفاداني‬
Yāsīn al-Fādānī, he said;
We were informed by Shaykh ʿUmar bin
، ‫الم ْح َر ِسَََََََّّّّّّّي‬ َ ‫ال َّشَََََََّّّّّّّ ْيخ عمر ِب ْن َح ْمَََّّّدَان‬
Hamdan al-Mahrasi, he said; Sayyid ، ‫قَّ َََََََّّّّّّّراعلي ال َّسَّ ِّيد ُم َح َّمد علي الوتري‬:‫قَّ َََََََّّّّّّّال‬
Muḥammad ʿAli al-Watri, Shaykh Falih al- ‫ سََّّورة الَّ َََََََّّّّّّّصََّّي ؛‬، ‫وال َّش َّ ْيخ فالح الظاهري‬
Zahiri recited all of Surah al-Saff to me, the
transmission of the first, meaning Al-Watri;
‫ َعن َع ْب ُد الغني ابِ ْن اْبِي سعيد‬،‫بروايَََّّّة اماول الوتري‬
from ʿAbd al-Ghani Ibn Abī Saeed al- ‫ َعن عمه‬، ‫ َعن ال َّش َّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد عابَََََََََّّّّّّّّّد‬، ‫ا ددي‬
Mujaddidi; from Shaykh Muḥammad Abid; ‫ َعن اْبِيه الشَّ ْيخ‬، ‫ُم َح َّمد حسين امانصاري السندي‬
from his uncle Muḥammad Hussain al-Ansari
‫ َعن الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد هاش‬، ‫ُم َح َّمد مَّراد امانَّصاري‬
from Shaykh Muḥammad Hashim al-Sindī;
from Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qāḍīr, the Ḥanafī Muftī ‫ َعن الشَّ ْيخ َع ْب ُد القَََّّّادر مفَََّّّتي الحنفيَََّّّة‬، ‫السندي‬
of Makka; from Shaykh Aḥmad bin ‫ َعن ال َّشَّ ْيخ احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد النخلي ؛‬، ‫بمكَّ َََََََّّّّّّّة‬
Muḥammad al-Nakhli;
‫ َعن الَََّّّشريي ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن‬، ‫وبرواية الثاني الظَََّّّاهري‬
And with the transmission of the second,
meaning Al-Zahiri; from Sharif Muḥammad ‫ َعن الشَّ ْيخ علَّي الميلَّي امازهَّري‬، ‫علي السنوسي‬
bin ʿAli al-Sanusi; from Shaykh ʿAli al-Mili al- ‫ َعن نور‬، ‫الس ِّيد مرتَََّّّضى الزبيدي‬ َّ ‫ َعن‬، ‫المَََّّّالكي‬
Azhari al-Māliki; from Sayyid Murtaḍā al-
‫ سمعته من‬:‫ قال‬، ‫الدين علي بِ ْن مكرح ﷲ العدوي‬
Zabīdī; from Nur al-Dīn ʿAli bin
MukarraMullāh al-Adawi, he said; I heard it
‫ َعن‬،‫شََّّيخنا الَّ َََََََّّّّّّّشََّّم ُم َح َّمد ابِ ْن عقيلة المكي‬
from our Shaykh Shams Muḥammad Ibn ‫ قَّ َََََََََّّّّّّّّّال في‬، ‫المحدث احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد النخلي‬
Aqilah al-Makkī; from the hadith specialist ‫ وسمعت على شيخنا‬: >‫ثبتَّ َََََّّّّّه<بغيَّ َََََّّّّّةال البين‬
Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Nakhli, he said in
his Thabat Bughyah al-Talibin; I heard it from
‫الشَّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد المذ ور ََََََّّّّّّ ي َعني ابِ ْن علاء الََََََّّّّّّدين‬
our teacher, Shaykh Muḥammad the ، ‫البَّ ََّّابليَّ ََّّ الحديث المسلس بقراءة سورة الصي‬
aforementioned – meaning Ibn Ala al-Dīn al- ‫ َعن الشااأ‬، ‫بقراءته لاا من لفظه على من حَّضر‬
Babili, the hadith of the recitation of Surah al-
‫ َعن الَّ ََََّّّّنج‬، ‫احمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد الشلبي الحنفَّ ََََّّّّي‬
Saff, by his personally reciting it to those who
attended; from Shihāb Aḥmad bin Muḥammad ‫ َعن شَََََََََّّّّّّّّّيخ اماسَّلاح ز رياء‬، ‫ُم َح َّمد الغي ََََََََّّّّّّّّي‬
al-Shalabi al-Ḥanafī; from Najm Muḥammad ‫ َعن الحاف اْبِي النعي رض ََََّّّّوان بِ ْن‬، ‫امانص ََََّّّّاري‬

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al-Ghayti; from Shaykh al-Islām Zakariyyah al- ، ‫ َعن ْابِي اسحاق ابراهي التنوخي‬،‫ُم َح َّمد العقَّبي‬
Ansari; from Ḥāfiz Abū al-Nuʿaym Ridwan bin
‫َعن اْبِي العباأ احمد بِ ْن اْبِي طالب الحجَّ ََََََََََََّّّّّّّّّّّّار‬
Muḥammad al-Uqba; from Abū Ishaq Ibrāhīm
al-Tannukhi; from Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad bin
‫ َعن اْبِي المنجا َع ْب ُد ﷲ بِ ْن عمر‬،‫الدمََََََََََََّّّّّّّّّّّّش ََََّّّّقي‬
Abī Talib al-Hajjar al-Dimashqi; from Abū al- ‫ َعن اْبِي الوقَََّّّت َع ْب ُد اماول بِ ْن عيَََّّّسى‬، ‫البغدادي‬
Manja ʿAbdullāh bin ʿUmar al-Baghdādi; from ‫ َعن اْبِي الحسََّّن َع ْب ُد الرحمن بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬، ‫الاروي‬
Abū al-Waqt ʿAbd al-Awwal bin ʿĪsa al-
Harawi; from Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
‫ َعن اْبِي ُم َح َّمد َع ْب ُد ﷲ بِ ْن احمد بِ ْن‬، ‫الداودي‬
bin Muḥammad al-Dāwūdi; from Abū ‫ اْخْ َب َرن َََََََََّّّّّّّّا ابو عمران‬، ‫عيسَّى بِ ْن عمر السَّرخسَّي‬
Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh bin Aḥmad bin ʿĪsa bin ‫ اْخْ َب َرن ََّ ََََّّّّا ابو ُم َح َّمد‬،‫عيسى بِ ْن عمر الَّ ََََّّّّسمرقندي‬
ʿUmar al-Sarakhsi; We were informed by Abū
‫ َحَّدث َنَّا‬:‫ قََّّال‬،‫َع ْبَّ ُد ﷲ بِ ْن َع ْبَّ ُد الرحمن الََّّدارمي‬
Imran ʿĪsa bin ʿUmar al-SamarqandĪ; We were
informed by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh bin ‫ َعن يحيى بِ ْن اْبِي‬، ‫ َعن اماوزاعي‬، ‫ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َّثير‬
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Darimi, he said; ‫ َعن َع ْب ُد‬، ‫ َعن اْبِي س َََّّّلمة بِ ْن َع ْب ُد الرحمن‬، ‫ثير‬
Muḥammad bin Kathir narrated to us; from Al-
‫اأ‬ ِ ‫ " َق َع ْدنَا نَف ًَرا ِم ْن اْ ْص َََّّّ َح‬:‫ قال‬، ‫ﷲ بِ ْن س َََّّّلاح‬
Awzai; from Yaḥyā bin Abī Kathir; from Abū
Salamah bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; from ʿAbdullāh :‫ َف ُق ْل َنا‬،‫ َف َت َذا َ ْرنَا‬، َ َّ‫َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه َصلَّى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َو َسل‬
bin Salam who said, “We a group from the ‫لَ ْو نَ ْع َل ُ اْ َّي اما ْ ْع َم ِال اْ َح َّب اِلَى ال ّله لَ َع ِم ْل َنا ُه؟ َفاْنْ َز َل‬
companions of the Messenger of Allah (Allah
‫ات َو َما ِفي‬ ِ ‫ { َس َّ َّب َح اللّه َما ِفي ال َّس َّ َم َو‬: َّ ‫اللّه َع َّز َو َج‬
bless him and give him peace) sat and discussed
saying: If we were to know the action which is
‫} َياْ ُّي َاا ا َّل ِذ َين ا َم ُنوا‬1{ ُ ‫ض َو ُه َو الْ َعزِي ُز الْ َح ِكي‬ ِ ‫اما ْ ْر‬
most beloved to Allah we would do it. ‫} َقا َل َع ْب ُد اللّه بِ ْن‬2-1 ‫لِ َ َتقُولُو َن َما ما َت ْف َعلُو َن اية‬
Allah ( َّ ‫ ) َع َّز َو َج‬revealed: All that is in the heavens
َ َّ‫ َق َراْ َها َع َل ْي َنا َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه َصلَّى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َو َسل‬:‫َسلا ٍح‬
and all that is in the earth proclaim Allah’s
‫َه َك َذا‬
purity, and He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.
(1) O you who believe, why do you say what you
do not do? (2)
ʿAbdullāh bin Salam said: The Messenger of
Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace)
recited it to us like this.22

Ibn al-Tayyib said: This hadith is Ṣaḥīḥ and continuous in terms of its chain and pattern, its narrators
being trustworthy, rather some of the Huffaz said it is the most authentic of the Musalsal hadith
which we have found and the most authentic Musalsal narrated in the world. It was related by Al-
Tirmidhī in his Jami’, al-Ḥākim in Al-Mustadrak in a Musalsal form, and he graded it Ṣaḥīḥ according
to the criteria of Al-Bukhārī and Muslim.23

22
The whole of this chapter of the Quran al-Karim is recited.
23
Manahil al-Salsalah 162:

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Forty Hadith

T HE P ATTERN C HAIN H ADITH OF N OBILITY

(T HE P URE F AMILY )

Allamah Aḥmad bin Yaḥyā Hāmid al-Dīn al-Yamani said in Nazm Ajwad al-Ahadith al-Musalsalah (p.12):
This hadith is Musalsal by means of the Itrah, known in the lands of Yemen from long ago and to this day as
Silsilah al-Ibriz bi al-Sanad al-Aziz. The author of the Tabaqat al-Zaydiyyah Sayyid Ibrahīm bin al-Qāsim bin al-
Muayyad al-Hasani al-Yamani, from al-Shihar and then of al-Taiz (d.1153H) has a biographical entry for the
compiler of the Silsilah al-Ibriz, Sayyid Ubaydullah bin ʿAli al-Jalabadhi, attributed to Jalabadh, an area that
was in Naysabur. He likewise has biographical entries for other narrators from its chain who lived in the past.
It was commented on by Allamah al-Shaykh Ṣāliḥ bin Ṣiddīq al-Namazi al-Ansari al-Shafiʿī al-Yamani who
passed away in the year 975, in a work entitled Al-Qawl al-Wajiz fi Sharḥ Ahadith Silsilah al-Ibriz.

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‫شاف‬ َ ْ َ‫َا ُمل َس ْل َسل بِ ْال‬

THE PATTERN CHAIN HADITH OF
NOBILITY (THE PURE FAMILY)
We were informed by Shaykh Muḥammad
Yāsīn al-Fādānī who said; We were informed by
the senior jurist and most learned scholar,
Sayyid Muḥammad Dāwūd bin ʿAbd al-
Raḥmān Hajr al-Qudaymi; from Sayyid Abd al-
Hadi bin Thabit al-Nahari;
from the Musnid Al-Wajih Sayyid ʿAbd al-
Raḥmān bin Sulaiman al-Ahdal; from Sayyid
Abū al-Fayd Muḥammad Murtada bin
Muḥammad al-Zabidi; We were also informed
by Allamah Sayyid Aydarus bin Salim al-Bar al-
Makkī
[Another Chain]
from Sayyid Alawi bin Aḥmad al-Saqqaf, the
Naqib of the Sayyids of Makka; from Sayyid
Alawi bin Safi al-Jifri al-Madani; from Sayyid
Mansur bin Yusuf al-Budayri al-Madani; from
Sayyid Muḥammad Murtada bin Muḥammad
al-Zabidi; from Al-Safi Sayyid Aḥmad bin
Muḥammad Sharif Maqbul al-Ahdal; from
Sayyid al-Wajih ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Aslam bin
al-Afif al-Makkī; from the Musnid Jamāl Sayyid
Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr al-Shilli al-Makkī;
from his father Sayyid Imām Abū Bakr al-Shilli;
from Sayyid and Jurist Umr bin ʿAbd al-Raḥīm
al-Basri al-Makkī; from Sayyid, Allamah,
Musnid, Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Aḥmad
Anqa’ al-Yamani; from his father Imām,
Allamah al-Sharif Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad bin
Aḥmad Anqa’ hearing from his father; Sayyid
Shihāb al-Dīn Abī Fatha Aḥmad bin Rumaytha
bin ʿAli al-Hussaini al-Mahannawi al-Musawi;
from his father who said; We were informed by
my father Sayyid Nur al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli
al-Murtdada bin Anqa’ al-Musawi; I was
informed by my father Sayyid Zayn al-Dīn Abū
Murbi’ Muḥammad bin Anqa’ Hamza al-
Musawi; I was informed by my father Sayyid
ِ ‫( َا ْل ِع ْتة َال َّط‬
)‫اه َرة‬ َ
:‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّ َََََََّّّّّّّا بِ ِه ال َّش َّ ْيخ ُم َح َّمد ياسََّّين الفاداني فقال‬
‫الس ِّيد ُم َح َّمد َدا ُود‬ َّ ‫اْخْ َب َرن ََّ َّا بِ ِه ال َعلَّا َمة الْ َف ِقيه المعمر‬
‫بِ ْن حسََََََّّّّّّن بِ ْن يحيى الْ َب ْحر َعن َشََََََّّّّّّ ْي خه َخاتِ َمة‬
‫الْ ُم َحقِّقين ال َّسََََََّّّّّّ ِّيََّّد َد ُاود بِ ْن َع ْبََّّ ُد ال َّر ْح َمن حجر‬
‫القديمي َعن ال َّس ََََّّّّ ِّيد َع ْب ُد الْ َاا ِدي بِ ْن ثَابت النااري‬
‫َعن الْم سند الْ َو ِجيه ال َّس ِّيد َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن ُس َل ْي َمان‬
‫اماهدل َعن ال َّسَََّّّ ِّيد اْبِي الْ َف ْيض ُم َح َّمد مرتضَََّّّى بِ ْن‬
‫ُم َح َّمد الزبي ِد ّي‬
‫الس ِّيد عيدروأ بِ ْن َسال‬ َّ ‫(ح) َواْخْ َب َرن ََّ َََّّّا بِ ِه ال َعلَّا َمة‬
‫الْ َبار الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن ال َّس َََّّّ ِّيد علوي بِ ْن اْ ْحمد الس َََّّّقاف‬
‫نقيب ال َّسَََّّّادة بِ َم َّكة َعن ال َّسَََّّّ ِّيد علوي بِ ْن صَََّّّافي‬
‫الْج ْفرِي الْمدنِي َعن ال َّسََََّّّّ ِّيد َم ْن ُصََََّّّّور بِ ْن ُيو ُسََََّّّّي‬
‫البديري الْمدنِي َعن ال َّسََََََّّّّّّ ِّيد ُم َح َّمد مرتضََََََّّّّّّى بِ ْن‬
َّ ‫ُم َح َّمد الزبي ِد ّي َعن الصفي‬
‫الس ِّيد اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
‫شََََََّّّّّّرِيي َم ْق ُبول اما هدل َعن ال َّسََََََّّّّّّ ِّيد الْ َو ِج يه َع ْب ُد‬
‫ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اسَََّّّل بِ ْن الْ َع ِفيي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن الْمسَََّّّند‬
‫الْجمال ال َّس َََّّّ ِّيد ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْبِي بكر الش َََّّّلي الْ َم ِّك ّي‬
‫َعن اْبِيه ال َّسَََّّّ ِّيد ِاما َماح اْبِي بكر الشَََّّّلي َعن ال َّسَََّّّ ِّيد‬
‫الْ َف ِق يه عمر بِ ْن َع ْب ُد ال َّر ِحي الْ َب ْصََََََّّّّّّ ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي َعن‬
‫ال َّس ََّّ ِّيد ال َعلَّا َمة الْمس ََّّند اْ ْحمد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد‬
‫َعنقاء الْ َي َمانِ ّي َعن اْبِيه ِاما َماح ال َعلَّا َمة الشريي جمال‬
‫الدّين ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد َعنقاء بِ َس َّ َم ِاع ِه من لف اْبِيه‬
‫ال َّس ََّّ ِّيد ش َّ ََّااأ الدّين اْبِي َف ْتحة اْ ْحمد بِ ْن رميثة بِ ْن‬
‫لي الْ ُح َس َّ ْي ِني الماناوي الموسََّّوي َعن اْبِيه َقا َل اْنا‬ ّ ‫َع‬
ِ
‫لي المرتضى‬ ّ ‫َوالدي ال َّس ِّيد نور الدّين اْ ُبو الْ ُح َس ْين َع‬
‫بِ ْن َعنقاء الموسََّّوي اْنا َوالِدي ال َّس َّ ِّيد زين الدّين اْ ُبو‬
‫مربع ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َعنقاء َح ْم َزة الموسََََََّّّّّّوي اْنا َوالِدي‬
‫ال َّس َََّّّ ِّيد زين الدّين اْ ُبو َق َتا َدة َح ْم َزة ال يار بِ ْن م ا َعن‬
‫الموسَّوي اْنا َوالِدي ال َّسَّ ِّيد الْمجد اْ ُبو َعنقاء ُمو َسى‬

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Zayn al-Dīn Abū Qatadah Hamza al-Tayyar bin
Mutai’ al-Musawi; We were informed by my
father Sayyid al-Majd Abū Anqa’ Musā bin
Matain Ibn Assaf al-Hussaini al-Mahannawi;
We were informed by my father Sayyid Abū
Thaqbah Assaf Fakhr al-Dīn bin Muḥammad
al-Mahannawi who said; We were informed by
my father Sayyid Abū Harraj Baha al-Dīn
Muḥammad al-Khalis bin Abī Jazan Assaf Sayf
al-Dīn bin Muhanna bin Dāwūd al-Hussaini
[Another Chain] It was also narrated by Sayyid
Imām Abū Bakr al-Shilli also from the two
Sayyids Zayn al-Abidin and ʿAli the sons of
Muhi al-Dīn Abd al-Qāḍīr bin Muḥammad bin
Yaḥyā al-Ṭabarī; from the father of both of
them; from his grandfather Sayyid Yaḥyā bin
Mukarram bin Muhib al-Dīn al-Akhir bin
Muḥammad Muhib al-Dīn al-Awsat bin Shihāb
al-Dīn Aḥmad bin Radi al-Dīn al-Kabir; from
his grandfather Sayyid Muhib Aḥmad; from his
father Sayyid al-Shihāb al-Akhir; from his
father’s uncle Sayyid Abī al-Yaman Muḥammad
bin Aḥmad bin Ibrahīm; from his father Imām
Radi al-Dīn al-Kabir Ibrahīm bin Muḥammad
bin Ibrahīm bin Abī Bakr bin Muḥammad bin
Ibrahīm bi Abī Bakr bin ʿAli bin Faris al-
Hussaini al-Ṭabarī al-Makkī;
We were informed by the trustworthy and
truthful Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī
Hurma al-Makkī who said; We were informed
by the Sayyid and nobleman, the remnant of the
Sayyid’s of Halab, Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Jafar
Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Jafar al-Hussaini;
We were informed by Siraj Muḥammad bin ʿAli
bin Yasir al-Ansari by means of his narrating as
well as Baha al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Khalis; from
the Vurtuous Sayyid and remnants of the
Sayyid’s of Balkh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan bin
ʿAli bin al-Ḥasan bin Ubaydullah bin
Muḥammad bin Ubaydullah bin ʿAli bin al-
Ḥasan bin al-Hussain bin Jafar al-Hujjah bin
Ubaydullah al-Araj Ibn al-Hussain al-Asghar
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‫بِ ْن م ا َعن ابِ ْن عسََََََّّّّّّاف الْ ُح َسََََََّّّّّّ ْي ِني الماناوي اْنا‬
َّ ‫َوالِدي‬
‫الس ِّيد اْ ُبو ثقبة عساف َفخر الدّين بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد‬
‫الس ِّيد اْ ُبو هرا بِ ِه اء الدّين‬ َّ ‫الماناوي َقا َل اْنا َوالِدي‬
‫ُم َح َّمد الْ َخالِص بِ ْن اْبِي جازان عساف سيي الدّين‬
‫بِ ْن مانا بِ ْن َد ُاود الْ ُح َس ْي ِني‬
‫(ح) َو َر َوا ُه ال َّس ََّّ ِّيد ِاما َماح اْ ُبو بكر الش ََّّلي اْ ْيض ََّّا َعن‬
‫ال َّسََّّ ِّيدين زين العابدين َوعلي ابِ ْني محيي الدّين َع ْب ُد‬
‫الْ قَ ا ِدر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن يحيى ال َّ َب ِر ّي َعن اْبِي ِا َما َعن‬
‫جده ال َّسَّ ِّيد يحيى بِ ْن مكرح بِ ْن محب الدّين ا ْماْخير‬
‫بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد َر ِضََََََّّّّّّي الدّين ا ْماْخير بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد محب‬
‫الدّين ا ْما ْ ْو َس ََّّط بِ ْن ش َّ ََّااأ الدّين اْ ْحمد بِ ْن َر ِض ََّّي‬
‫الدّين الْ َكبِير َعن جده ال َّس ََّّ ِّيد محب اْ ْحمد َعن اْبِيه‬
‫شااأ ا ْماْخير َعن َع اْبِيه ال َّس ِّيد اْبِي الْيمن‬ َ ‫ال َّس ِّيد ال‬
‫ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اْ ْحمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي َعن اْبِيه ِاما َماح َر ِض َََََّّّّّي‬
‫الَّدّين الْ َكبِير اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن اْبِي‬
‫بكر بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن اِ ْب َرا ِهي بِ ْن اْبِي بكر بِ ْن َعل ّي بِ ْن‬
‫َفارأ الْ ُح َسَََّّّ ْي ِني ال َّ َب ِر ّي الْ َم ِّك ّي اْنا الثِّقَة الصَََّّّدوق‬
‫اْ ُبو الْقَا ِس َََّّّ َع ْب ُد ال َّر ْح َمن بِ ْن اْبِي حرمي الْ َم ِّك ّي َقا َل‬
‫السادة بحلب َفخر الدّين اْ ُبو‬ َّ ‫الس ِّيد الشريي َب ِق َّية‬ َّ ‫اْنا‬
‫َج ْع َفر اْ ْحمََّّد بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد بِ ْن َج ْعفَر الْ ُح َسََََََّّّّّّ ْي ِني اْنََّّا‬
‫لي بِ ْن َياسََّّر ا ْمانْ َص َّارِ ّي بروايته‬ ّ ‫السََّّرا ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن َع‬
َّ ‫ُه َو وبِ ِه اء الدّين ُم َح َّمد الْ َخالِص َعن‬
ِ ‫الس ِّيد الْف‬
‫َاض‬
‫لي بِ ْن‬ ّ ‫َب ِق َّية ال َّس َََّّّادة ببلخ اْبِي ُم َح َّمد الْحس َََّّّن بِ ْن َع‬
‫الْحسََََََّّّّّّن بِ ْن عبيد اللّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمد بِ ْن عبيد اللّه بِ ْن‬
‫حجة بِ ْن‬ َّ ْ‫لي بِ ْن الْحس ََّّن بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ََّّ ْين بِ ْن َج ْعفَر ال‬ ّ ‫َع‬
‫عبيد اللّه ا ْما ْ ْع َر ابِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين ا ْما ْ ْصغَر ابِ ْن َعل ّي زين‬
‫لي رح اللّه َوجاه‬ ّ ‫العابدين بِ ْن الْ ُح َس ْين السبط بِ ْن َع‬
‫َقا َل ا ْمانْ َص َّارِ ّي َس َّ َماعا من لَفظه َقا َل َحدث ِني َوالِدي‬
‫لي بِ ْن اْبِي َطالب الْحسن‬ ّ ‫اْ ُبو الْحسن َع‬
‫َقا َل ثنى َو ِالدي اْ ُبو َطالب الْحسََََََّّّّّّن ال َّن ِق يب َقا َل‬
ِ
‫لي عبيََّّد الل َّّه بِ ْن ُم َح َّمَّد ثنى‬ ّ ‫َحَّدث ِني َوالَّدي اْ ُبو َع‬
‫َوالِدي اْ ُبو الْحسن ُم َح َّمد ال َّزا ِهد َقا َل َحدث ِني َوالِدي‬
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Ibn ʿAli Zayn al-Abidin bin al-Hussain al-Sibt ََََََّّّّّّ‫لي ثنى َوالِدي اْ ُبو الْقَا ِس‬ ّ ‫لي عبيد اللّه بِ ْن َع‬ ّ ‫اْ ُبو َع‬
bin ʿAli (Allah ennoble his countenance); Al-
‫لي ثنى َوا ِلدي اْ ُبو ُم َح َّمد الْحسََََََّّّّّّن ثنى َوا ِلدي‬ ّ ‫َع‬
Ansari said having heard directly; He said: My
father Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAli bin Abī Talib al-Ḥasan ‫الْ ُح َسََََََّّّّّّ ْين َو ُه َو اول من دخ َبلخ من َه ِذه ال َّائِفَة‬
narrated to me, he said; My Father Abū Talib ‫ثنى َوالَِّدي َج ْعفَر الملقََّّب بَِّالْح َّجَّ ِة ثنى اْبِي عبيََّّد‬
Al-Ḥasan al-Naqib narrated to me, he said; My ‫اللّه ُه َو ا ْما ْ ْع َر ثنى اْبِي الْ ُح َس َََّّّ ْين ُه َو ا ْما ْ ْص َََّّّغَر ثنى‬
father Abū ʿAli Ubaydullah bin Muḥammad
narrated to me; My father Abū al-Ḥasan
‫لي ثنى اْبِي الْ ُح َسََََََّّّّّّ ْين َي َعني‬ ّ ‫اْبِي زين العََّّابََّّدين َع‬
Muḥammad al-Zahid narrated to me, he said; :‫لي بِ ْن اْبِي َطالب َقا َل‬ ّ ‫السبط ثنى اْبِي َع‬
My father Abū ʿAli Ubaydullah bin ʿAli
narrated to me; My father Abū al-Qāsim
narrated to me;
May father Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan narrated
to me; My father Al-Ḥasan and he is the first of
those from this this group to enter Balkh
narrated to me; My father Jafar known as Al-
Hijjah narrated me; My father Ubaydullah, who
is al-Araj narrated to me; My father al-Hussain
who is Al-Asghar narrated to me; My father Zayn
al-Abidin ʿAli narrated to me; My father al-
Hussain meaning Al-Sibt narrated to me; My
father ʿAli bin Abī Abī Talib narrated to me, he
said;

‫َقا َل َر ُس ْو ُل اللّه صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل لَ ْي َ الْخَ َب ُر‬ ِ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ ُم ْس ِل ُ ِم ْرا ُة الْ ُم ْس ِل‬
‫َال ُم َعا َي َن ِة‬ 3. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
1. The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him said, “A Muslim is a mirror of a fellow
and give him peace) said, Muslim”
“News of a matter is not like actually
witnessing it.” ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال ُم ْس َتشَ ا ُر ُم ْؤ َت َمن‬
4. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫َوبِ ِا َذا ا ْم ِا ْس َناد َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َح ْر ُأ‬ said, “The one whose advice is being sought
‫خُ ْد َعة‬ is being entrusted”
2. And with this chain of narration;
He (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الدَّا ُّل َع َلى الْخَ ْي ِر‬
“War is deception”
‫َ َفا ِع ِل ِه‬
5. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “The one who guides towards goodness

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is like the one who performs it”

‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل لَ ْي َ ِم َّنا َم ْن غَشَّ َنا‬

‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ْاس َت ِع ْي ُنوا َع َلى الْ َح َوائِ ِج‬ 12. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫بِالْ ِك ْت َم ِان‬ said, “He who deceives us is not from us”
6. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “Seek help with your needs by hiding ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َما َق َّ َو َ َفى خَ ْير ِم َّما‬
them” ‫َثُ َر َواْلْ َاى‬
13. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اتَّ ُقوا ال َّنا َر َولَ ْو بِ ِش ِّق‬ said, “That which is little and suffices is better
‫َت ْم َر ٍة‬ than that which is copious but leads to
forgetfulness”
7. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “Avoid the hellfire even if it be by
means of half a date” ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال َّر ِاج ُع ِفي ِه َب ِت ِه‬
‫َال َّر ِاج ِع ِفي َق ْي ِئ ِه‬
ِ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال ُّدنْ َيا ِس ْج ُن الْ ُم ْؤ ِمن‬ 14. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫َو َج َّن ُة ا ْل َكا ِف ِر‬ said, “The one who takes back a gift is like
one who swallows his own vomit”
8. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “The world is the prison of the believer
and paradise of the disbeliever” ُ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َبل‬
ِ‫َاء ُم َو َّ بِالْ َم ْن ِ ق‬
15. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َح َي ُاء خَ ْير ُلُّ ُه‬ said, “Affliction is a result of excessive
speech”
9. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “Modesty is all good”
‫اأ َاْ ْس َن ِان ال ُمشْ ِط‬
ُ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال َّن‬
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ِع َد ُة الْ ُم ْؤ ِمنِ َاْخْ ٍذ‬ 16. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “People are like the teeth of a comb”
‫ي‬ِّ ‫بِالْ َك‬
10. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “A believer’s promise is like his taking
ِ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ ِغ َني َغ ِني ال َّن ْف‬
the hand” 17. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “True wealth is the richness of the
heart”
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َما َي ِح ُّ لِ ُمؤْمنٍ اْ ْن‬
‫َي ْا ُج َر ْاخَ ا ُه َف ْو َق َثلَا َث ِة ْا َّيا ٍح‬
11. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “It is not permitted for a believer to
boycott his brother for more than three days”

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َ ‫الس ِعي ُد َم ْن ُو ِع‬

َّ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل‬ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َي ُد ا ْل ُع ْل َيا خَ ْير ِم َن‬
‫بِ َغ ْي ِر ِه‬ ُّ ‫الْ َيد‬
‫الس ْف َلى‬
18. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) 24. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “The felicitous one is one who takes said, “The raised hand is better than the
heed from others” lowered hand”

‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اِ َّن ِم َن الشِّ ْع ِر لَ ِح ْك َمة‬ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َما يشْ ُك ُر اللّه َم ْن َما‬
ً‫َواِ َّن ِم َن الْ َب َي ِان لَ ِس ْحرا‬
َ ‫َيشْ ُك ُر ال َّن‬
‫اأ‬
19. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) 25. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “Indeed there is wisdom in poetry, and said, “The one who has not thanked the
in some speech has a magical effect” people has not thanked Allah”

ِ ُ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َع ْف ُو ال ُمل‬

‫وك اْ ْب َقى‬ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ُح ُّبكَ الشَّ ْي َء ُي ْع ِمي‬
‫لِ ْل ُم ْل ِك‬ ُّ ‫َو ُي ِص‬
20. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) 26. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “The forgiveness of the Rulers results in said, “Your love for a thing makes you blind
the continuing of the state” and deaf”

‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َم ْر ُء َم َع َم ْن اْ َح َّب‬ ‫وأ َع َلى‬ ُ ُ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ُج ِب َل ِت ا ْل ُقل‬
21. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) ‫ض َم ْن اْ َس َاء اِلَ ْي َاا‬
ِ ‫ُح ِّب َم ْن ا ْح َس َن اِلَ ْي َاا َو ُب ْغ‬
said, “A person will be with the one whom he 27. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
loves” said, “Hearts are naturally inclined to those
whom are kind to them, and disliking whom
َ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َما َه َلكَ ا ْم ُرؤ َع َر‬
‫ف‬ are unkind to them”

‫َق ْد َر ُه‬
22. He (Allah bless him and give him peace) ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل التَّائِ ُب ِم َن ال َّذ ْن ِب‬
said, “A person who knows his own worth is ‫َ َم ْن َما َذ ْن َب لَ ُه‬
not destroyed” 28. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “The one repenting from a sin is like the
‫ش َولِ ْل َعا ِه ِر‬
ِ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َولَ ُد لِ ْل ِف َرا‬ one with no sin”

‫ال َح ْج ُر‬
23. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “The child is for the woman and the
stone is for the adulterer”

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‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الشَّ ا ِه ُد َي َرى َما َما‬ 35. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫َيرا ُه الْغَائِ ُب‬ said, “The best of matters is where
moderation is observed”
29. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “The one witnessing sees that which the
person absent does not” ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اللا بارك مامتي في‬
‫بكورها يوح الخمي‬
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل اِ َذا َج َاء ُ ْ َ ِري ُ َق ْو ٍح‬ 36. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫َفاْ ْ ِر ُمو ُه‬ said, “O Allah, bless my ummah in their
journey on Thursday morning”
30. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said. “If a nobleman of a people comes to
you, then honour him” ‫َا َد الْ َف ْق ُر اْ ْن َي ُكو َن‬ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل‬
‫ُ ْفر ًا‬
ِ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل الْ َي ِمي ُن ا ْلف‬
‫َاج َر ُة َت َذ ُر‬ 37. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫ال ِّد َيا َر َبلَا ِق َع‬ said, “It may be that poverty leads to
disbelief”
31. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “A false oath brings destruction to
countries” ‫الس َف ُر ِق ْ َعة ِم َن‬
َّ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل‬
ِ ‫الْ َع َذ‬
‫اأ‬
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َم ْن قُ ِت َ ُدو َن َمالِ ِه َف ُا َو‬ 38. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
‫شَ ِايد‬ said, “Travel is a form of punishment”

32. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)

said, “A person who is killed for his wealth is
a martyr”
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ا ْما ْ ْع َما ُل بِال ِّن َّي ِة‬
33. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “Actions are by intention”
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل ال َم َجالِ ُ بِاما ْ َمانَ ِة‬
39. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “Gatherings are a trust”
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل خَ ْي ُر ال َّزا ِد التَّ ْق َوى‬
40. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)
said, “The best of provisions is God

ْ ‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل َس ِّي ُد الْ َق ْو ِح خَ ا ِد ُم ُا‬ consciousness”

34. He (Allah bless him and give him peace)

said, “The master of a people is he who serves ‫َقا َل ابِ ْن ال ّيب َف َا ِذ ِه اْ ْر َب ُعو َن َح ِديثا مسلسلا بِ ِاذا‬
them”
‫الس َند انْتاى‬ َّ
Ibn al-Tayyib said, “These are 40 Musalsal
‫َوبِ ِه َقا َل صلى اللّه َع َل ْي ِه َوسل خَ ْي ُر ا ْما ُ ُمو ِر ا ْو َس ُ َاا‬ hadith with this chain.”

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REFERENCING FOR THE
Taken from Shaykh ʿĀshiq Ilāhī al-Barnī’s Referencing from Al-Fadl al-Mubin
1. Imām Aḥmad in his Musnad (1/271) as
part of a longer hadith. Al-Sakhawi in
Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah said (p.352) that
this hadith was graded Ṣaḥīḥ by Ibn
Hibban, al-Ḥākim and others.
2. Bukhārī and Muslim
3. Al-Tirmidhī and Abū Dāwūd with
some additional wording.
4. Al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Majah and the
author of Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah (1019)
referenced it to the Musnad of Imām
Aḥmad.
5. Al-Askari, Ibn Jamiee and al-
Mundhiri, see Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah
(478)
6. Al-Tabarānī in his three Mu’jam
collections with a similar wording as
mentioned in Majma’ al-Zawaid
(8/195).
7. Al-Bukhārī
8. Muslim and Abū Hurayrah
9. Muslim
10. Al-Suyuti in Jami al-Saghir referenced
it to Al-Daylami in Musnad al-Firdaws
11. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim with a similar
wording
12. Muslim
13. Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Hilyah (1/226) and
Al-Haythami in Majma’ al-Zawaid
(2/122) referenced it to Aḥmad and
said, “Its narrators are those of the
Ṣaḥīḥ.”
14. A source could not be found for this
exact wording, however there is
something similar to it in Bukhārī and
Muslim.
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15. It was referenced by Al-Sakhawi in
Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah to those authors
who cited it and said, “It was
mentioned by Ibn al-Jawzī in the the
collection of fabricated
narrations…however this is not an
accurate verdict based on that which
we have mentioned.”
16. A source could not be located.
17. Al-Bukhārī
18. Muslim
19. Al-Bukhārī
20. It was mentioned by Al-Suyuti in Jami’
al-Saghir and referenced it to Al-Rafi’i
in Tarikh Qazwin and indicated to it
being Ḥasan.
21. Al-Sakhawi in Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah
(1011) referenced it to Bukhārī and
Muslim. Al-Tirmidhī narrated it with
some additional wording.
22. A source could not be located.
23. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim
24. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim
25. Al-Tirmidhī and Aḥmad as
mentioned in Al-Mishkat (p.461)
26. Abū Dāwūd, Aḥmad (6/450) narrates
it with a similar wording.
27. Al-Sakhawi referenced it in Maqāṣid
al-Ḥasanah (365) to Abū Nuʿaym in
Al-Hilyah, Abū al-Shaykh, Ibn Hibban
in Rawda al-Uqala, Al-Khatib in Tarikh
Baghdād. It was also cited by Al-Suyuti
in Jami al-Saghir, Al-Munawi (3/345)
mentioned some sever criticism of one
of the narrators.
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28. Ibn Majah, it was related by Al-
Tabarānī with some additional
wording as in Majma’ al-Zawaid
(10/200).
29. Aḥmad, Al-Diya’ in Al-Mukhtarah,
Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Hilyah as in
Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah (584)
30. It was mentioned by Al-Ghazali in Al-
Ihyā’ (1/229), Al-Iraqi referenced it to
Ibn Majah, Abū Dāwūd in Al-Marasil
and al-Ḥākim.
31. Al-Mundhiri in Al-Targhib (2/622)
indicating it is weak and referenced it
to Al-Bayhaqi.
32. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim
33. Al-Bukhārī
34. Al-Sakhawi in Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah
(579) referenced it to Abū ʿAbd al-
Raḥmān al-Sulami in Adab al-Suhba
with some weakness in the chain. It
was also related by Al-Daylami in his
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Musnad, al-Ḥākim and al-Bayhaqi in
Al-Shuab.
35. Al-Sakawi (455) referenced it to Ibn
al-Samani in Dhayl Tarikh Baghdād
with unknown narrators, Ibn Jarir in
Tafsir, Al-Bayhaqi and Al-Daylami
without a chain.
36. Abū Dāwūd, Al-Tirmidhī who graded
it Ḥasan, al-Nasai, Ibn Majah, Ibn
Hibban in his Ṣaḥīḥ, as mentioned by
Al-Targhib (2/529).
37. The author of Al-Mishkat referenced it
to Al-Bayhaqi in Shuab al-Iman with
additional wording. It was related by
Abū Nuʿaym in Al-Hilyah as in Jami’
al-Saghir.
38. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim
39. Abū Dāwūd
40. Abū al-Shaykh, Ibn Hibban and Al-
Daylami as mentioned in Jami al-
Saghir and its commentary Fayd al-
Qāḍīr (3/373)
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‫إجازة‬
All praise is due to Allah the Lord of the Worlds, ‫الح مد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا مُح ََّمد‬
blessings and peace be upon our Master
Muḥammad and upon his family and all of his :‫ وبعد‬، ‫وعلي آله وصحبِه ِ أجمعين‬
companions. To proceed:
The distinguished student: ‫ة‬/‫ة النجيب‬/‫حضرت عندي الطالب‬/‫فقد حضر‬
heard from me the Hadith of Mercy and a …………………………………………………
number of pattern chained narrations which I
narrate along with their conditions from my ‫سمعت مني حديث الرحمة وجملة صالحة‬/‫وبعدما سمع‬
master, Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī
َّ ‫من المسلسلات التي رويتها بشروطها ع َن سيدي‬
and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Abī Bakr al- ‫الشي ْخ‬
Mullā.
َّ ‫مُح ََّمد ياسين الفاداني و‬
،‫الشي ْخ ع َبْد ُ الرحمن ب ِنْ أَ ب ِي بكر الملا‬
He/she has requested me to grant him/her a
license to transmit (Ijāzah) just as my notable ‫ها اجازة عامةكما أجازني‬/‫طلبت مني ان أجيزه‬/‫قد طلب‬
teachers granted me a license to transmit, even
though I am not qualified to do so. However ‫ ول كن‬،‫مشائخي الاعلام وأن كنت لست أهلا لذالك‬
acquiescing to his/her request I say seeking help
through Allah Most High: ‫ها فأقول مستعينا بالله تعالي قد أجزت‬/‫نزولا لرغبته‬
‫ت ذي السعي المشكور بكل ما تصح لي روايته‬/‫الأخ‬
I have granted a license to transmit to this
brother/sister, a person of laudable effort, all :‫من منقول ومعقول كما أجازني بذالك شيوخي منهم‬
that I narrate from the transmitted and rational
sciences, just as I was granted a license to do so َّ ‫الشي ْخ مُح ََّمد ب ِنْ أَ بِي بكر الملا والعم‬
‫الشي ْخ‬ َّ ‫سيدي الوالد‬
by my teachers, amongst them being: My father
and Master Shaykh Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr ‫الشي ْخ مُح ََّمد ياسين الفاداني‬
َّ ‫ع َبْد ُ الرحمن ب ِنْ أَ بِي بكر الملا و‬
al-Mullā, my uncle Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin
Abī Bakr al-Mullā, Shaykh Muḥammad Yāsīn َّ ‫الشي ْخ حسن المشاط و‬
‫الشي ْخ ع َبْد ُالله ب ِنْ سعيد اللحجي‬ َّ ‫و‬
al-Fādānī, Shaykh Ḥasan al-Mashāṭ, Shaykh
ʿAbdullāh bin Said al-Lahji, Shaykh Ismāʿīlal- َّ ‫الشي ْخ اسماعيل الزين و‬
.‫الشي ْخ أحمد جابر جبران وغيرهم‬ َّ ‫و‬
Zayn, Shaykh Aḥmad Jābir Jibrān and others.
‫ها بتقوي الله عزوجل في السر والعلن‬/‫وأوصيه‬
I advise him/her to have taqwa of Allah the
Mighty and Majestic privately and publically. ‫والأبتعاد ع َن التبديع والتكفير والرجوع الي ال كتب‬
Likewise to distance themselves from labelling
others as innovators or declaring them as ‫تنساني ووالدي وشيوخي من‬/‫ وأن لا ينساني‬.‫الأصيلة‬
disbelievers, rather they should refer back in
matters to the reference works. ‫ها في السر والعلن في الأوقات الروابح‬/‫صالح دعواته‬

I request him/her to not forget me, my parents

‫وصلي الله علي سيدنا مُح ََّمد وعلي آله وصحبِه ِ أجمعين‬
and teachers in his/her sincere prayers, both
privately and publically at blessed times.
Blessings and peace be upon our Master
Muḥammad and upon his family and all of his
companions.

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