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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

and from him transmitted his own son ʿAlī, as well as Wakīʿ, ʿUbaydullāh ibn Mūsā, Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, and a number of others.

He died in the days of Shuʿbah.

Ibn Ḥibbān, for his part, declared him reliable (1) and said that he passed away during the caliphate of Abū Jaʿfar.

ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad granted us authorization; ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī informed us; Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Khirqī informed us; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī informed us; ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us; Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Naṣr ibn ʿAlī; al-Naḍr ibn Shaybān informed us, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ:

“Indeed Allah has made the fasting of the month of Ramadan obligatory, and I have instituted for you its night prayer. Whoever fasts and stands (in prayer) out of faith and seeking reward emerges from his sins like the day his mother bore him.”

Ibn Mājah also recorded it (2) from a trustworthy transmitter, from Wakīʿ.

In my collection this ḥadith reaches me with a higher chain through al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Huddānī from al-Naḍr.

Al-Nasāʾī transmitted it by both routes, but he remarked: “This is an error.”

The correct version is the narration of Abū Salamah from Abū Hurayrah.

As for his son:

(1) Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 10, p. 429. Citing Ishaq ibn Mansur who transmits Ibn Maʿin’s verdict: “trustworthy.” (2) Hadith no. 1328 in “The Book of Establishing the Prayer,” chapter “What has been reported on standing in prayer during Ramadan”; also in al-Nasai, vol. 4, p. 158, “The Book of Fasting,” chapter “The reward for the one who performs the night prayer in Ramadan and fasts it with faith and seeking reward.”

وَعَنْهُ: ابْنُهُ؛ عَلِيٌّ، وَوَكِيْعٌ، وَعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بنُ مُوْسَى، وَمُسْلِمُ بنُ إِبْرَاهِيْمَ، وَعَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ، وَجَمَاعَةٌ. مَاتَ: فِي أَيَّامِ شُعْبَةَ. وَأَمَّا ابْنُ حِبَّانَ فَوَثَّقَهُ (١) ، وَقَالَ: مَاتَ فِي خِلاَفَةِ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ. أَجَازَ لَنَا عَلِيُّ بنُ أَحْمَدَ، أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الأَنْصَارِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ الجَوْهَرِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيْمُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ الخِرَقيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا جَعْفَرُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الفِرْيَابِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيْعٌ، عَنْ نَصْرِ بنِ عَلِيٍّ، أَخْبَرَنَا النَّضْرُ بنُ شَيْبَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِيْهِ: عَنْ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ: (إِنَّ اللهَ فَرَضَ صِيَامَ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ، وَسَنَنْتُ لَكُمْ قِيَامَهُ، فَمَنْ صَامَ وَقَامَ إِيْمَاناً وَاحْتِسَاباً، خَرَجَ مِنْ ذُنُوبِهِ كَيَوْمَ وَلَدَتْهُ أُمُّهُ) . أَخْرَجَهُ: ابْنُ مَاجَهْ (٢) ، عَنِ الثِّقَةِ، عَنْ وَكِيْعٍ. وعِنْدِي هَذَا الحَدِيْثُ أَعْلَى بِدَرَجَةٍ مِنْ طَرِيْقِ القَاسِمِ بنِ الفَضْلِ الحُدَّانِيِّ عَنِ النَّضْرِ. وَأَخْرَجَهُ: النَّسَائِيُّ مِنَ الوَجْهَيْنِ، لَكِنْ قَالَ النَّسَائِيُّ: هَذَا خَطَأٌ. وَالصَّوَابُ حَدِيْثُ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ. وَأَمَّا وَلَدُهُ:

(١) " تهذيب التهذيب " ١٠ / ٤٢٩، وفيه عن إسحاق بن منصور، عن ابن معين، قال: ثقة. (٢) رقم (١٣٢٨) في إقامة الصلاة: باب ما جاء في قيام شهر رمضان، والنسائي ٤ / ١٥٨ في الصيام: باب ثواب من قام رمضان وصامه إيمانا واحتسابا.