Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (7/444)

Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

Abū al-Faraj(1) said: “This is a fabricated hadith(2), and the one accused of fabricating it is Abbād ibn Abd Allāh. Alī ibn al-Madīnī said: ‘He was a weak hadith narrator.’”

Abū al-Faraj(3) said: “(Hammād)(4) al-Azdī narrated(5) hadiths for which no one corroborated him. As for al-Minhāl, Shubah abandoned him. Abū Bakr al-Athram said(6): ‘I asked Abū Abd Allāh about Alī’s hadith, “I am Allah’s servant and the brother of the Messenger of Allah(7).” He replied, “Strike it out, for it is a denounced hadith(8).”’”

I say: Among what is narrated through Abbād from Alī are reports known with certainty to be falsely attributed to him, such as this hadith. We know that Alī(9) was far too righteous, truthful, and God-fearing to lie and utter words such as these—words that are a manifest falsehood and are necessarily known to be false. Whenever we know that something is a manifest falsehood admitting no confusion, we know that Alī did not say it, because we know that he feared Allah too much to deliberately tell such a vile lie, and that it is not the kind of matter(10)

(1) In *al-Mawduāt*, 1:341. (2) *Al-Mawduāt*: “and this is fabricated.” (3) N, M: “Abū al-Fath.” (4) “Hammād” appears as an addition in S and B and is absent from *al-Mawduāt*, which instead reads: “and al-Azdī said.” (5) M: “narrates.” (6) *Al-Mawduāt*: “and he said.” (7) N: “and the brother of His Messenger”; “and the brother of His Messenger, and I am the Greatest Truthful One.” (8) Dr. Wasī Allāh ibn Muhammad Abbās stated in his commentary on the hadith: “This chain of transmission is denounced because of Abbād ibn Abd Allāh al-Asadī al-Kūfī. . . Al-Dhahabī stated in *al-Mīzān*, 2:368: ‘This is a lie against Alī.’” (9) S, B: “that he.” (10) M: “among that which is not.”

قَالَ أَبُو الْفَرَجِ (١) : " هَذَا حَدِيثٌ مَوْضُوعٌ (٢) ، وَالْمُتَّهَمُ بِهِ عَبَّادُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ. قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمَدِينِيِّ: كَانَ ضَعِيفَ الْحَدِيثِ، وَقَالَ أَبُو الْفَرَجِ: (٣) " (حَمَّادٌ) (٤) الْأَزْدِيُّ: رَوَى (٥) أَحَادِيثَ لَا يُتَابَعُ عَلَيْهَا، وَأَمَّا الْمِنْهَالُ فَتَرَكَهُ شُعْبَةُ، قَالَ (٦) أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْأَثْرَمُ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ حَدِيثِ عَلِيٍّ: " أَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَأَخُو رَسُولِ اللَّهِ (٧) " فَقَالَ: اضْرِبْ عَلَيْهِ؛ فَإِنَّهُ حَدِيثٌ مُنْكَرٌ (٨) ". قُلْتُ: وَعَبَّادٌ يُرْوَى مِنْ طَرِيقِهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ مَا يُعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ كَذِبٌ عَلَيْهِ قَطْعًا، مِثْلُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ، فَإِنَّا نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا (٩) كَانَ أَبَرَّ، وَأَصْدَقَ، وَأَتْقَى لِلَّهِ مِنْ أَنْ يَكْذِبَ، وَيَقُولَ مِثْلَ هَذَا الْكَلَامِ الَّذِي هُوَ كَذِبٌ ظَاهِرٌ مَعْلُومٌ بِالضَّرُورَةِ أَنَّهُ كَذِبٌ، وَمَا عَلِمْنَا أَنَّهُ كَذِبٌ ظَاهِرٌ لَا يُشْتَبَهُ، فَقَدْ عَلِمْنَا أَنَّ عَلِيًّا لَمْ يَقُلْهُ لِعِلْمِنَا بِأَنَّهُ أَتْقَى لِلَّهِ مِنْ أَنْ يَتَعَمَّدَ هَذَا الْكَذِبَ الْقَبِيحَ، وَأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِمَّا (١٠)

(١) فِي " الْمَوْضُوعَاتِ " ١/٣٤١ (٢) الْمَوْضُوعَاتِ: وَهَذَا مَوْضُوعٌ (٣) ن، م: أَبُو الْفَتْحِ (٤) حَمَّادٌ: زِيَادَةٌ فِي (س) ، (ب) وَلَيْسَتْ فِي " الْمَوْضُوعَاتِ ". بَلْ فِيهِ: وَقَالَ الْأَزْدِيُّ (٥) م: يَرْوِي (٦) الْمَوْضُوعَاتِ: وَقَالَ (٧) ن: وَأَخُو رَسُولِهِ ; وَأَخُو رَسُولِهِ وَأَنَا الصِّدِّيقُ الْأَكْبَرُ (٨) قَالَ الدُّكْتُورُ وَصِيُّ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَبَّاسٍ فِي تَعْلِيقِهِ عَلَى الْحَدِيثِ: " هَذَا إِسْنَادٌ مُنْكَرٌ لِأَجْلِ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَسَدِيِّ الْكُوفِيِّ. . . وَقَالَ الذَّهَبِيُّ فِي " الْمِيزَانِ " ٢/٣٦٨: هَذَا كَذِبٌ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ " (٩) س، ب: أَنَّهُ (١٠)) م: مِمَّا لَيْسَ