has taken me as an intimate friend (khalīl), just as He took Abraham as His intimate friend. On the Day of Resurrection my abode and Abraham’s abode in Paradise will face one another, and al-‘Abbās will be between us—a believer standing between two intimate friends.
Reported by Ibn Mājah (1), but it is fabricated.
In its chain is ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-ʿArḍī, a known liar.
Ibn Abī Fudayk narrated: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿĀmirī told us, from Suhayl, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet ﷺ said to al-‘Abbās: “Prophethood and kingship will remain among you.”
This appears in the fascicle of Ibn Dīzīl (2), and it is rejected (3).
Ibn Abī al-Zinād related—from his father, from a reliable transmitter (4)—that whenever al-‘Abbās passed by ʿUmar or ʿUthmān while they were riding, they would dismount until he had gone past, out of reverence for the uncle of the Messenger of Allah.
And Thumāmah narrated—from Anas—that ʿUmar said: “O Allah, we seek a means to You through the uncle of Your Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, so grant us rain.” Authentic (5).
(1) Entry 141 in the Muqaddima. Al-Busiri states in al-Zawaid, fol. 11: “This isnad (chain of transmission) is weak, for all authorities agree on the unreliability of Abd al-Wahhab. Abu Dawud even said, ‘He fabricates hadith,’ and al-Hakim added, ‘He transmitted forged reports.’ Moreover, Ismail’s shaykh was known to practise tadlis (concealing weak transmitters).”
(2) The printed edition misreads the name as “Dibril.” It should be the travelling hafiz Abu Ishaq, Ibrahim ibn al-Husayn al-Kisaʾi al-Hamdani. The author notes in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, p. 608: “He was nicknamed Sayfina; the sayfina is a bird that never alights on a tree without stripping it of its leaves, and likewise Ibrahim never visited a shaykh without exhausting his knowledge.” He died in 283 AH (≈ 896 CE), and al-Hakim declared him reliable.
(3) The author rejects the report because of its matn (content); Suhayl ibn Abi Salih is not strong enough to transmit such a report on his own.
(4) The printed text erroneously reads “Alifah.”
(5) For the documentation see p. 91, note 4 above, and Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 4:28–29.