Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (2/595)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

and you ask, “Why is it that the Emigrants and the Helpers do not narrate as he does?” My brothers from among the Emigrants were occupied with buying and selling in the markets, while my brothers from among the Helpers were busy working their properties. As for me, I was a destitute man, one of the poor folk of the Suffah. I kept close to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ merely so that I might fill my stomach. Thus I was present when they were absent, and I retained what they would forget.

On one occasion the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said during a discourse: “No one spreads out his garment until I have finished all that I have to say and then gathers it to himself except that he will retain everything I say.” So I spread a striped cloak over me, and when he had concluded his words I folded it to my chest. From that day I have not forgotten a single word of that discourse of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. (1)

Al-Zuhri also narrated—from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah—that he said: “You claim that I narrate too many hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—Allah is the One who will call us to account. I was a poor man who accompanied the Messenger of Allah simply for a meal to fill my stomach. One day he addressed us and said: ‘Whoever spreads his garment until I finish my words and then pulls it toward himself will never forget anything he hears from me ever again.’ I did so, and by Him who sent him with the truth, I have never forgotten anything I heard from him.” (2)

Both narrations are authentic and soundly preserved. (3)

(1) Reported by al-Bukhari, 4/247, Book of Sales, chapter: On the divine saying, “fa-idha qudiyati-s-salatu fantashiru fi-l-ard” (Q 62:10), through the chain of al-Zuhri, from Said b. al-Musayyab and Abu Salama, from Abu Hurayra. Muslim also transmits it (no. 2492) in The Merits of the Companions, chapter: Some virtues of Abu Hurayra, via al-Zuhri from Said b. al-Musayyab, from Abu Hurayra. It is likewise found in Ibn Saad, Tabaqat, 4/330, and Ibn Asakir, 19/114. Al-safq in commerce is the sound produced when the seller’s hand strikes the buyer’s hand at the moment the sale is finalized. (2) Recorded by al-Bukhari, 1/190, 5/21, and 13/271, and by Muslim (no. 2294), through al-Zuhri, from al-Araj, from Abu Hurayra. (3) Ibn Hajar states in Fath al-Bari, 1/104, after citing the two isnads: “Both chains are firmly preserved and were authenticated by the two Shaykhs.”

لِلْمُهَاجِرِيْنَ وَالأَنْصَارِ لاَ يُحَدِّثُوْنَ مِثْلَهُ؟ وَإِنَّ إِخْوَانِي المُهَاجِرِيْنَ كَانَ يَشْغَلُهُمُ الصَّفْقُ بِالأَسْوَاقِ، وَكَانَ إِخْوَانِي مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ يَشْغَلُهُمْ عَمَلُ أَمْوَالِهِمْ، وَكُنْتُ امْرَأً مِسْكِيْناً مِنْ مَسَاكِيْنِ الصُّفَّةِ، أَلْزَمُ رَسُوْلَ اللهِ ﷺ عَلَى مِلْءِ بَطْنِي، فَأَحْضُرُ حِيْنَ يَغِيْبُوْنَ، وَأَعِي حِيْنَ يَنْسَوْنَ، وَقَدْ قَالَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ فِي حَدِيْثٍ يُحَدِّثُهُ يَوْماً: (إِنَّهُ لَنْ يَبْسُطَ أَحَدٌ ثَوْبَهُ حَتَّى أَقْضِي جَمِيْعَ مَقَالَتِي، ثُمَّ يَجْمَعُ إِلَيْهِ ثَوْبَهُ، إِلاَّ وَعَى مَا أَقُوْلُ) . فَبَسَطْتُ نَمِرَةً عَلَيَّ، حَتَّى إِذَا قَضَى مَقَالَتَهُ، جَمَعْتُهَا إِلَى صَدْرِي، فَمَا نَسِيْتُ مِنْ مَقَالَةِ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ تِلْكَ مِنْ شَيْءٍ (١) . الزُّهْرِيُّ أَيْضاً: عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: تَزْعُمُوْنَ أَنِّي أُكْثِرُ الرِّوَايَةَ عَنْ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ وَاللهُ المَوْعِدُ - إِنِّي كُنْتُ امْرَأً مِسْكِيْناً، أَصْحَبُ رَسُوْلَ اللهِ عَلَى مِلْءِ بَطْنِي، وَإِنَّهُ حَدَّثَنَا يَوْماً، وَقَالَ: (مَنْ يَبْسُطُ ثَوْبَهُ حَتَّى أَقْضِيَ مَقَالَتِي، ثُمَّ قَبَضَهُ إِلَيْهِ، لَمْ يَنْسَ شَيْئاً سَمِعَ مِنِّي أَبَداً) . فَفَعَلْتُ، فَوَالَّذِي بَعَثَهُ بِالحَقِّ، مَا نَسِيْتُ شَيْئاً سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْهُ (٢) . وَالحَدِيْثَانِ: صَحِيْحَانِ، مَحْفُوْظَانِ (٣) .

(١) أخرجه البخاري ٤ / ٢٤٧ في البيوع: باب ما جاء في قول الله عزوجل: (فإذا قضيت الصلاة فانتشروا في الأرض) من طريق الزهري، عن سعيد بن المسيب وأبي سلمة، عن أبي هريرة، وأخرجه مسلم (٢٤٩٢) في فضائل الصحابة: باب من فضائل أبي هريرة من طريق الزهري عن سعيد بن المسيب، عن أبي هريرة، وهو في " طبقات ابن سعد " ٤ / ٣٣٠، وابن عساكر ١٩ / ١١٤. والصفق في البيع: صوت وقع يد البائع على يد المشتري عند عقد التبايع. (٢) أخرجه البخاري ١ / ١٩٠ و٥ / ٢١ و١٣ / ٢٧١، ومسلم (٢٢٩٤) من طريق الزهري، عن الاعرج، عن أبي هريرة. (٣) وقال: الحافظ في " الفتح " ١ / ١٠٤ بعد أن ذكر الاسنادين: والاسنادان جميعا محفوظان صححهما الشيخان.