Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah - Nasir al-Din al-Albani - (7/481)

Silsilat al-Ahadith al-SahihahNasir al-Din al-Albani

through this Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim—al-ʿAbdī of Basra—from him, from Abū Hurayrah: the hadith concerning the jinn who used to steal from the dates given in charity. Abū Hurayrah caught him in order to take him to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him . . . The hadith states that the jinn said to him, “Let me go, and I will teach you words which, if you say them, no jinn will come near you: the Verse of the Throne; recite it every morning and evening . . .” The hadith further states that Abū Hurayrah said, “So I let him go, and I mentioned that to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: ‘Did you not know that it is indeed so?’”

Al-Bukhārī suspended it through another route from Abū Hurayrah, in a more complete version. At its end, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said to him: “He told you the truth, though he is a habitual liar.” It is found in my Abridgement of Sahih al-Bukhārī (vol. 2/106/363), which has been published—praise be to Allah. Al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Khuzaymah, in his Sahih (2424), as well as others, transmitted it with a connected chain.

The respected brother, Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Rizq ibn Ṭarhūnī, has also documented it, along with its numerous corroborating reports, in his valuable book, Encyclopaedia of the Virtues of the Surahs and Verses of the Quran (1/152–167). Naturally, he concluded with certainty that it is authentic—may Allah reward him well. This is a conclusion which no hadith scholar can dispute, unlike people of ignorance and whims, such as the one called Ḥassān ʿAbd al-Mannān, who claimed to have edited Imam al-Nawawī’s Gardens of the Righteous—may Allah have mercy on him. He extracted from it 129 hadiths, which he compiled at the end of the book under the heading: “A List of the Weak Hadiths Removed from the Main Text of the Book!” He wielded against them the pickaxe of demolition and disparagement, assailing many authentic hadiths, while boasting over those who had previously edited the book. Indeed, the number he classified as weak was twice the number they had classified as such, including his own teacher, Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ, whom he claimed had agreed with him regarding more than 90 hadiths. He further maintained that this was to his teacher’s credit, since he had returned to the truth! He comments on those hadiths, saying:

من طريق إسماعيل بن مسلم هذا- وهو العبدي البصري- عنه عن أبي هريرة بحديث الجني الذي كان يسرق من تمر الصدقة، فأمسك به أبو هريرة ليأخذه إلى النبي ﷺ...... الحديث، وفيه: أن الجني قال له: خلِّ عني أعلمك كلمات إذا قلتهن لم يقربك الجن..... آية الكرسي، اقرأها كل صباح ومساء..... الحديث، وفيه: قال أبو هريرة: فخلَّيت عنه، فذكرت ذلك للنبي ﷺ فقال: "أو ما علمت أنه كذلك؟ ". وقد علقه البخاري من طريق أخرى عن أبي هريرة بأتم منه، وفي آخره أن النبي ﷺ قال له: "صدقك وهو كذوب " " وهو في "مختصري لصحيح البخاري " (ج ٢/١٠٦/ ٣٦٣) وقد طبع- والحمد لله-، ووصله النسائي وابن خزيمة في "صحيحه " (٢٤٢٤) وغيرهما، وقد خرجه مع شواهده الكثيرة الأخ الفاضل الشيخ محمد بن رزق بن طرهوني في كتابه القيم "موسوعة فضائل سور وآيات القرآن " (١/١٥٢- ١٦٧) ، وانتهى بطبيعة الحال إلى الجزم بصحته جزاه الله خيراً، وهو الذي لا يمكن لحديثيٍّ أن يخالف فيه، خلافاً لأهل الجهل والأهواء، مثل المسمى بـ "حسان عبد المنان " الذي زعم أنه حقق "رياض الصالحين " للإمام النووي- ﵀، واستخرج منه (١٢٩) حديثاً جمعها في آخر الكتاب تحت عنوان: "ذكر الأحاديث الضعيفة المحذوفة من أصل الكتاب "! أعْمَلَ فيها مِعْوَلَ الهدم والطعن في كثير من الأحاديث الصحيحة، متفاخراً بذلك على من سبقه من المحققين للكتاب! حيث بلغ عددها عنده ضعفي عددها عندهم، ومنهم شيخه شعيب الأرنؤوط، الذي نسب إليه أنه وافقه على أكثر من (٩٠) حديثاً! وأن ذلك من فضل شيخه لرجوعه إلى الحق! ويعقِّب على تلك الأحاديث بقوله: