there prostrate with him seven limbs: the forehead, the two palms, the two knees, and the two feet. (1)
The same wording was transmitted by al-Layth and Bakr ibn Muḍar from Ibn al-Hād, and all of the canonical collectors recorded it except al-Bukhārī.
- Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb ibn Bajīl al-Wāshihī (ʿ)
The Imām, the reliable authority, the ḥāfiẓ, Shaykh al-Islām, Abū Ayyūb al-Wāshihī—the Azdite, the Basran, and chief judge of Mecca.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad and others informed us, by authorization, saying:
ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad informed us; Ibn Ghaylān informed us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Abū Bishr, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Abū Mūsā, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever hears of me—whether Jew or Christian—and then does not submit, shall enter the Fire.” (3)
He narrated from Shuʿbah, Ḥawshab ibn ʿAqīl, al-Aswad ibn Shaybān, and Yazīd.
(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Muslim also recorded it (no. 491) in the Book of Prayer, chapter “The Parts of the Body that Touch the Ground in Prostration,” as did Abu Dawud (no. 891), al-Tirmidhi (no. 272), and al-Nasaʾi 2/208. The word al-arab is the plural of irb and refers to a limb.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat 7/300; Khalifa, al-Tabaqat, ed. 1946; Khalifa, Taʾrikh 438; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 4/8; al-Tarikh al-Saghir 2/351; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 4/108; Ibn Qutayba, al-Maʿarif 526; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Taʾrikh Baghdad 9/33; Ibn al-Futi, al-Muʿjam al-Mushtamil 133; Ibn al-Athir, al-Lubab 3/348; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan 2/418-420; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, fol. 536; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif 1/391-392; al-ʿIbar 1/390-391; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 1/393; Ibn Fahd, al-ʿIqd al-Thamin 4/601-603; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 4/178; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz 166; al-Khazraji, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal 151; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab 2/54.
(2) The nisba Washahi derives from Washah, a branch of the Azd tribe.
(3) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Ibrahim ibn ʿAbd Allah is the eminent hadith scholar Abu Muslim al-Kajji, and Abu Bishr is Jaʿfar ibn Iyas. Muslim also transmits the hadith (no. 153) in the Book of Faith on the authority of Abu Hurayra.