Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (11/397)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Allāh ibn Abī Sharīk informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī informed us, who said:
“It was read aloud to the judge Abū al-Qāsim Badr ibn al-Haytham—while I was listening—and it was said to him:
‘Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Kurayb has related to you, saying: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Saʿd, from ʿAlī (may Allah ennoble his face), who said:
The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: “In Paradise there is a market in which there is no buying and no selling, save the images of men and women. When a man desires an image he enters into it. Within it there is also a gathering place of the wide-eyed houris; they raise voices the like of which no created being has ever heard:
‘We are the everlasting ones—never shall we vanish;
We are the content—never shall we be displeased;
We are the blissful—never shall we suffer hardship.
So glad tidings to the one who belongs to us and we to him.’ (1)’”

The judge Abū al-Qāsim told us: “Abū Muʿāwiyah transmitted this ḥadīth as a prophetic report, whereas Ibn Fuḍayl halted it with ʿAlī.”

The judge Abū al-Qāsim also narrated to us: ʿAlī ibn al-Mundhir narrated to us; Ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Saʿd, from ʿAlī, who said:
‘Indeed, in Paradise there is a market in which there is no buying or selling except for images of men and women; whoever desires an image enters into it.’ (2)

(1) Its isnad (chain of transmission) is weak. Abd al-Rahman b. Ishaq b. Shaybah al-Wasiti al-Ansari was deemed unreliable by Ahmad, Ibn Maʿin, Ibn Saʿd, Yaʿqub b. Sufyan, Abu Dawud, al-Nasaʾi, and Ibn Hibban. Al-Bukhari said, “He is questionable.” Abu Zurʿah stated, “He is not strong,” Abu Hatim judged him “weak in hadith,” and Ibn Khuzaymah ruled that his reports are not admissible as evidence. His shaykh in this chain—al-Nuʿman b. Saʿd—has no other transmitter and is declared trustworthy only by Ibn Hibban; therefore, his narration is not reliable. Al-Tirmidhi also recorded the hadith (nos. 2550, 2564) through Ahmad b. Maniʿ and Hanan, from Abu Muʿawiyah, from Abd al-Rahman b. Ishaq, from al-Nuʿman b. Saʿd, from ʿAli, and commented: “This hadith is gharib (isolated).” Parallel reports exist from Abu Hurayrah, Abu Saʿid, and Anas. See Ibn al-Qayyim, Hadi al-Arwah, pp. 250, 252. (2) Weak for the same reason as the preceding hadith.

اللهِ بنُ أَبِي شَرِيْكٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الحُسَيْنِ بنُ النَّقُّوْرِ، أَخْبَرَنَا عِيْسَى بنُ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ: قُرِئَ عَلَى القَاضِي أَبِي القَاسِمِ بَدْرِ بنِ الهَيْثَمِ - وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ - قِيْلَ لَهُ: حَدَّثَكُم مُحَمَّدُ بنُ العَلاَءِ بنِ كُرَيْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ﵁ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ: (إِنَّ فِي الجَنَّةِ سُوْقاً مَا فِيْهَا بَيْعٌ وَلاَ شِرَاءٌ، إِلاَّ الصُّوَرُ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاءِ، فَإِذَا اشْتَهَى رَجُلٌ صُوْرَةً، دَخَلَ فِيْهَا، وَإِنَّ فِيْهَا لَمَجْمَعَ الحُوْرِ العِيْنِ، يَرْفَعْنَ أَصْوَاتاً لَمْ تَسْمَعِ الخَلاَئِقُ مِثْلَهَا: نَحْنُ الخَالِدَاتُ فَلاَ نَبِيْدُ، وَنَحْنُ الرَّاضِيَاتُ فَلاَ نَسْخَطُ، وَنَحْنُ النَّاعِمَاتُ فَلاَ نَبْؤُسْ؛ فَطُوْبَى لِمَنْ كَانَ لَنَا وَكُنَّا لَهُ (١)) . قَالَ لَنَا القَاضِي أَبُو القَاسِمِ: هَذَا الحَدِيْثُ رَفَعَهُ أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، وَوَقَّفَهُ ابْنُ فُضَيْلٍ. حَدَّثَنَا القَاضِي أَبُو القَاسِمِ، حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بنُ المُنْذِرِ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ فُضَيْل، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بن سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ: (إِنَّ فِي الجَنَّةِ لَسُوْقاً مَا فِيْهَا بَيْعٌ وَلاَ شِرَاءٌ إِلاَّ الصُّوَرُ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاءِ، مَنِ اشْتَهَى صُوْرَةً، دَخَلَ فِيْهَا) (٢) .

(١) إسناده ضعيف، وعبد الرحمن بن إسحاق هو ابن شيبة الواسطي الأنصاري، ضعفه أحمد وابن معين وابن سعد ويعقوب بن سفيان وأبو داود والنسائي وابن حبان. وقال البخاري: فيه نظر. وقال أبو زرعة: ليس بقوي. وقال أبو حاتم: ضعيف الحديث. وقال ابن خزيمة: لا يحتج بحديثه. وشيخه فيه - وهو النعمان بن سعد - لم يرو عنه غيره، ولم يوثقه غير ابن حبان، فلا يحتج بخبره. وأخرجه الترمذي (٢٥٥٠) و (٢٥٦٤) من طريق أحمد بن منيع وهناد، عن أبي معاوية عن عبد الرحمن بن إسحاق، عن النعمان بن سعد، عن علي، وقال: هذا حديث غريب. وفي الباب: عن أبي هريرة وأبي سعيد وأنس. وانظر " حادي الارواح " ص: ٢٥٠، ٢٥٢ لابن القيم. (٢) ضعيف كسابقه.