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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

hasten their reckoning.’
They will then be called forward and accounted for: some will enter Paradise by Allah’s mercy, and others will enter Paradise through my intercession. I shall go on interceding until I am handed a writ for men who had already been dispatched to the Fire, so much so that Mālik, the keeper of Hell, will say, ‘O Muhammad! You have left nothing for the Fire, and nothing of your Lord’s anger to be taken out upon your community!’

This is a singular, denounced hadith; it is transmitted solely by Muḥammad ibn Thābit (1), one of the weak narrators. Al-Bukhārī said, ‘He is questionable,’ and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, ‘He is nothing.’ Al-Tirmidhī alone recorded it.

Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Saʿd related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāʿidī related to us; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad transmitted to us.

Abū al-Faḍl also transmitted, from al-Qāsim ibn Abī Saʿd; Hibat al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid related to us; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us; they said:

Abū Nuʿaym ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq the ḥāfiẓ related to us; Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī related to us; ʿAmr ibn Marzūq related to us—and with the same chain to Yaʿqūb, he said:

Ibrāhīm ibn Marzūq also related to us; ʿUmar ibn Yūnus related to us; they said:

ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār informed us; Shaddād related to us; he said: I heard Abū Umāmah (may Allah be pleased with him) say that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

‘O son of Adam! Giving away your surplus is better for you, while withholding it is worse for you. You will not be blamed for keeping what suffices you. Begin with those you are responsible for, and the upper hand is better than the lower hand.’ (2)

(1) His shaykh, Abd Allah b. Abd Allah b. al-Harith b. Nawfal, and his father are both unknown to the specialists. (2) The chain of transmission is judged hasan (reliable but not of the highest grade). Muslim also recorded the tradition (no. 1036) in the Book of Zakat, chapter “The upper hand is better than the lower hand,” and al-Tirmidhi (no. 2344) in the Book of Zuhd, through several routes narrated from Umar b. Yunus on the authority of Ikrima b. Ammar with this same isnad.

عَجِّلْ حِسَابَهُمْ. فَيُدْعَى بِهِمْ، فَيُحَاسَبُوْنَ، فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَدْخُلُ الجَنَّةَ بِرَحْمَةِ اللهِ، وَمِنْهُم مَنْ يَدْخُلُ الجَنَّةَ بِشَفَاعَتِي، فَمَا أَزَالُ أَشْفَعُ، حَتَّى أُعْطَى صَكّاً بِرِجَالٍ قَدْ بُعِثَ بِهِمْ إِلَى النَّارِ، حَتَّى إِنَّ مَالِكاً خَازِنَ النَّارِ يَقُوْلُ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ! مَاْ تَرَكْتَ لِلنَّارِ وَلِغَضَبِ رَبِّكَ فِي أُمَّتِكَ مِنْ نَقْمَةٍ) . هَذَا حَدِيْثٌ غَرِيْبٌ مُنْكَرٌ، تَفَرَّدَ بِهِ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ ثَابِتٍ (١) ؛ أَحَدُ الضُّعَفَاءِ، قَالَ البُخَارِيُّ: فِيْهِ نَظَرٌ. وَقَالَ يَحْيَى بنُ مَعِيْنٍ: لَيْسَ بِشَيْءٍ. وَرَوَى لَهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَحْدَهُ. أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الفَضْلِ أَحْمَدُ بنُ أَبِي الحُسَيْنِ: أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحِيْمِ بنُ أَبِي سَعْدٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّاعِدِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا عُثْمَانُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ (ح) . وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الفَضْلِ، عَنِ القَاسِمِ بنِ أَبِي سَعْدٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا هِبَةُ الرَّحْمَنِ بنُ عَبْدِ الوَاحِدِ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الحَمِيْدِ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، قَالاَ: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ عَبْدُ المَلِكِ بنُ الحَسَنِ، حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوْبُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ الحَافِظُ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو زُرْعَةَ الرَّازِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بنُ مَرْزُوْقٍ، وَبَالإِسْنَادِ إِلَى يَعْقُوْبَ، قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيْمُ بنُ مَرْزُوْقٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بنُ يُوْنُسَ، قَالاَ: أَخْبَرَنَا عِكْرِمَةُ بنُ عَمَّارٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا شَدَّادٌ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا أُمَامَةَ ﵁ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ: (يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ! إِنَّكَ أنْ تَبْذُلَ الفَضْلَ خَيْرٌ لَكَ، وَأَنْ تُمْسِكَهُ شَرٌّ لَكَ، وَلاَ تُلاَمُ عَلَى كَفَافٍ، وَابْدَأْ بِمَنْ تَعُوْلُ، وَاليَدُ العُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ اليَدِ السُّفْلَى) (٢) .

(١) وشيخه عبد الله بن عبد الله بن الحارث بن نوفل وأبوه لا يعرفان. (٢) إسناده حسن. وأخرجه مسلم: (١٠٣٦) ، في الزكاة: باب بيان أن اليد العليا خير من اليد السفلى، والترمذي: (٢٣٤٤) في الزهد، من طرق عن عمر بن يونس عن عكرمة بن عمار بهذا الإسناد.