Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (10/253)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

I said: A case like this may very well be that Qatādah related it once from Jābir and then concealed the intermediary (tadlīs), as is his custom, and another time he transmitted it from Ṣāliḥ, from Jābir Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ—and Allah knows best.

Ibn ʿAllān informed us; al-Kindī informed us; al-Qazzāz informed us; al-Khaṭīb informed us; al-ʿAtīqī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās informed us; Sulaymān ibn Isḥāq al-Jallāb informed us; I heard Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī say:

Abū Khaythamah told me: “Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and I were with ʿAffān. He said to me, ‘How are you feeling? How was your journey? May Allah bless your ḥajj.’

“I replied, ‘I have not performed the pilgrimage.’

“He said, ‘I had no doubt you were a pilgrim.’

“Then I asked him, ‘How are you, Abū ʿUthmān?’

“He answered, ‘Fine. The maid keeps telling me, “You have a headache,” yet I am in good health.’

“I asked, ‘What have you eaten today?’

“He replied, ‘I ate a dish of rice; I shall need nothing else until tomorrow—or perhaps this evening I will have another dish that will suffice me for tomorrow.’”

Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī said: “That evening I went to him and looked at him just as Abū Khaythamah had described. Someone said to him, ‘Yaḥyā says you have become confused.’

“He answered, ‘May Allah curse Yaḥyā! I pray that Allah lets me enjoy my sanity until I die.’”

Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī added: “At one moment he would ramble senilely, and at another he would be fully lucid. (1)”

Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah said: “I heard my father and Yaḥyā say, ‘We found fault with ʿAffān in…’”

= Among the material on this topic is the marfuʿ report transmitted by Abu Saʿid al-Khudri: “la yaqtaʿu al-salat shayʾun” (nothing interrupts the prayer). It is recorded by al-Daraqutni 1/368 and al-Bayhaqi 2/278. The chain includes Mujalid b. Saʿid, whose retention was weak, yet the narration is strengthened by supporting chains from Abu Umama, Abu Hurayra, and Anas in al-Daraqutni 1/367, 368, 369. Saʿid b. Mansur also relates in his Sunan—cited by Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari 1/485—with an authentic isnad from ʿAli, ʿUthman, and others to the same effect, but as a mawquf report. Al-Muwattaʾ 1/156 records from Ibn Shihab, from Salim b. ʿAbd Allah, that ʿAbd Allah b. ʿUmar used to say: “Nothing that passes in front of the worshipper breaks the prayer.” The chain is sound. (1) Tarikh Baghdad 12/276.

قُلْتُ: مِثْلُ هَذَا يَجُوْزُ أَنْ يَكُوْنَ حَدَّثَ بِهِ قَتَادَةُ مَرَّةً، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، فَدَلَّسَهُ كَعَوَائِدِهِ، وَمَرَّةً رَوَاهُ عَنْ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ أَبِي الشَّعْثَاءِ - وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ -. أَنْبَأَنَا ابْنُ عَلاَّنَ، أَخْبَرَنَا الكِنْدِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا القَزَّازُ، أَخْبَرَنَا الخَطِيْبُ، أَخْبَرَنَا العَتِيْقِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ العَبَّاسِ، أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ الجَلاَّبُ، سَمِعْتُ إِبْرَاهِيْمَ الحَرْبِيَّ يَقُوْلُ: قَالَ لِي أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ: كُنْتُ أَنَا وَيَحْيَى بنُ مَعِيْنٍ عِنْدَ عَفَّانَ فَقَالَ لِي: كَيْفَ تَجِدُكَ؟ كَيْفَ كُنْتَ فِي سَفَرِكَ؟ بَرَّ اللهُ حَجَّكَ. فَقُلْتُ: لَمْ أَحُجَّ. قَالَ: مَا شَكَكْتُ أَنَّكَ حَاجٌّ. ثُمَّ قُلْتُ لَهُ: كَيْفَ تَجِدُكَ يَا أَبَا عُثْمَانَ؟ قَالَ: بِخَيْرٍ، الجَارِيَةُ تَقُوْلُ لِي: أَنْتَ مُصَدَّعٌ وَأَنَا فِي عَافِيَةٍ. فَقُلْتُ: أَيْشٍ أَكَلْتَ اليَوْمَ؟ قَالَ: أَكَلْتُ أَكْلَةَ رُزٍّ، وَلَيْسَ أَحْتَاجُ إِلَى شَيْءٍ إِلَى غَدٍ أَوْ بِالعَشِيِّ، آكُلُ أُخْرَى تَكْفِيْنِي لِغَدٍ. قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيْمُ الحَرْبِيُّ: فَلَمَّا كَانَ بِالعَشِيِّ، جِئْتُ إِلَيْهِ، فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَيْهِ كَمَا حَكَى أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ، فَقَالَ لَهُ إِنْسَانٌ: إِنَّ يَحْيَى يَقُوْلُ: إِنَّكَ قَدِ اخْتَلَطْتَ. فَقَالَ: لَعَنَ اللهُ يَحْيَى، أَرْجُو أَنْ يُمَتِّعَنِي اللهُ بِعَقْلِي حَتَّى أَمُوْتَ. قَالَ الحَرْبِيُّ: يَكُوْنُ سَاعَةً خَرِفاً، وَسَاعَةً عَقِلاً (١) . أَحْمَدُ بنُ أَبِي خَيْثَمَةَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي وَيَحْيَى يَقُوْلاَنِ: أَنْكَرْنَا عَفَّانَ فِي

= وفي الباب عن أبي سعيد الخدري مرفوعا: " لا يقطع الصلاة شيء.." أخرجه الدارقطني ١ / ٣٦٨، والبيهقي ٢ / ٢٧٨، وفي سنده مجالد بن سعيد وهو سيئ الحفظ، لكن له شواهد تقويه من حديث أبي أمامة وأبي هريرة وأنس عند الدارقطني ١ / ٣٦٧ و٣٦٨ و٣٦٩. وروى سعيد بن منصور في " سننه " فيما ذكره الحافظ في " الفتح " ١ / ٤٨٥ بإسناد صحيح عن علي وعثمان وغيرهما نحو ذلك موقوفا. وفي " الموطأ " ١ / ١٥٦ عن ابن شهاب، عن سالم بن عبد الله، أن عبد الله بن عمر كان يقول: لا يقطع الصلاة شيء مما يمر بين يدي المصلي. وإسناده صحيح. (١) " تاريخ بغداد " ١٢ / ٢٧٦.