Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (9/365)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Abu Nafiʿ, the grandson of Yazid ibn Harun, said: “I was with Ahmad ibn Hanbal while two other men were present.
One of them remarked, ‘I saw Yazid ibn Harun in a dream and asked him, “What did Allah do with you?” He replied, “He forgave me, allowed me to intercede, and reproached me, saying, ‘Do you narrate from Hariz ibn ʿUthman?’ I said, ‘My Lord, I knew nothing but good about him.’ He said, ‘He hates ʿAli (may Allah be pleased with him).’”
The other man said, ‘I too saw him in a dream and asked, “Did Munkar and Nakir come to you?” He answered, “Yes, by Allah. They questioned me: ‘Who is your Lord? What is your religion?’ I replied, ‘Would someone like me be asked this, when in the worldly life I was the most knowledgeable of people about it?!’ They said to me, ‘You have spoken the truth.’” (1)

Abu al-Maʿali Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Hamadhani in Egypt narrated to us; Abu Hurayra Muhammad ibn al-Layth ibn Shujaʿ al-Wastani and Zayd ibn Hibbat Allah the trader in Baghdad likewise narrated to us. They said:
Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Mubarak narrated to us; Qafarjal narrated to us; ʿAsim ibn al-Hasan narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad narrated to us; al-Husayn ibn Ismaʿil the judge dictated to us; Muhammad ibn Yazid, the brother of Karkhwiyah, narrated to us; Yazid ibn Harun narrated to us; Zakariyya narrated to us from ʿAṭiyya al-ʿAwfi, from Abu Saʿid, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Indeed, I am leaving among you two weighty trusts: the Book of Allah—a rope extended from heaven to earth—and my family, the people of my household. The two shall never separate until they return to me at the Pond.” (2)

(1) Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 14, pp. 346–347. (2) The chain is weak because of the weakness of Atiyya al-Awfi. Ahmad recorded it in his Musnad 3/14, 17, 26, and 59, and al-Tabarani in al-Muʿjam al-Saghir 1/135, all through transmitters who go back to Atiyya al-Awfi. However, a supporting narration strengthens it: Ahmad 5/181–182 reports it from Zayd ibn Thabit with a chain that is hasan (sound) for corroboration; another version comes from Zayd ibn Arqam in al-Tirmidhi (no. 3788), which al-Tirmidhi graded hasan; and a third is from Jabir ibn Abdullah, also in al-Tirmidhi (no. 3786) and likewise graded hasan. Additional reports are cited in Majmaʿ 9/163ff. Muslim includes the hadith in his Sahih (no. 2408).

قَالَ أَبُو نَافِعٍ سِبْطُ يَزِيْدَ بنِ هَارُوْنَ: كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَحْمَدَ بنِ حَنْبَلٍ - وَعِنْدَهُ رَجُلاَنِ. فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا: رَأَيْتُ يَزِيْدَ بنَ هَارُوْنَ فِي المَنَامِ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: مَا فَعَلَ اللهُ بِكَ؟ قَالَ: غَفَر لِي، وَشَفعَنِي، وَعَاتَبَنِي، وَقَالَ: أَتُحَدِّثُ عَنْ حَرِيْزِ بنِ عُثْمَانَ؟ فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَبِّ، مَا عَلِمتُ إِلاَّ خَيْراً. قَالَ: إِنَّهُ يُبْغِضُ عَلِيّاً ﵁. وَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ الآخَرُ: رَأَيْتُهُ فِي المَنَامِ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: هَلْ أَتَاكَ مُنْكَرٌ وَنَكِيْرٌ؟ قَالَ: إِيْ وَاللهِ، وَسَأَلاَنِي: مَنْ رَبُّكَ؟ وَمَا دِيْنُكُ؟ فَقُلْتُ: أَلِمِثْلِي يُقَالُ هَذَا، وَأَنَا كُنْتُ أَعْلَمَ النَّاسِ بِهَذَا فِي دَارِ الدُّنْيَا؟! فَقَالاَ لِي: صَدَقْتَ (١) . أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو المَعَالِي أَحْمَدُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ الهَمَذَانِيُّ بِمِصْرَ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ اللَّيْثِ بنِ شُجَاعٍ الوَسْطَانِيُّ، وَزَيْدُ بنُ هِبَةِ اللهِ البَيِّعُ بِبَغْدَادَ، قَالاَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو القَاسِمِ أَحْمَدُ بنُ المُبَارَكِ، أَخْبَرَنَا قَفَرْجَلٌ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَاصِمُ بنُ الحَسَنِ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الوَاحِدِ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الحُسَيْنُ بنُ إِسْمَاعِيْلَ القَاضِي إِمْلاَءً، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ يَزِيْدَ أَخُو كَرْخُوَيْه، أَخْبَرَنَا يَزِيْدُ بنُ هَارُوْنَ، أَخْبَرَنَا زَكَرِيَّا، عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ العَوْفِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيْدٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ: (إِنِّيْ تَارِكٌ فِيْكُم الثَّقَلَيْنِ: كِتَابَ اللهِ حَبْلٌ مَمْدُوْدٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ، وَعِتْرَتِي أَهْلَ بَيْتِي، وَلَنْ يَتَفَرَّقَا حَتَّى يَرِدَا عَلَيَّ الحَوْضَ) (٢) .

(١) " تاريخ بغداد " ١٤ / ٣٤٦، ٣٤٧. (٢) إسناده ضعيف لضعف عطية العوفي، وأخرجه أحمد في " المسند " ٣ / ١٤، و١٧، و٢٦، و٥٩، والطبراني في " المعجم الصغير " ١ / ١٣٥ من طرق عن عطية العوفي به لكن له شاهد يتقوى به عند أحمد ٥ / ١٨١، ١٨٢، من حديث زيد بن ثابت، وسنده حسن في الشواهد، وآخر من حديث زيد بن أرقم عند الترمذي (٣٧٨٨) وحسنه، وثالث من حديث جابر بن عبد الله عند الترمذي (٣٧٨٦) أيضا وحسنه. وفي الباب عن غير هؤلاء انظر " المجمع " ٩ / ١٦٣، وما بعدها، وأخرجه مسلم في " صحيحه " (٢٤٠٨) في =