Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah - Nasir al-Din al-Albani - (7/1591)

12—As for the hadith of Abū Hurayrah:

Al-Tirmidhī (3661) and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ (5729) narrated it through the route of Dāwūd ibn Yazīd al-Awdī, from his father, from him, with this wording.

I say: Its chain of transmission is weak, as I explained long ago in Tracing the Hadiths of The Problem of Poverty (1) (p. 17).

Note: The wordings of these chains and reports differ, with additions and omissions, but they all agree on the statement: “Had I been to take an intimate friend, I would have taken Abū Bakr as an intimate friend.” This is the essential basis of the hadith, as is clear.

All praise is due to Allah for His enabling. *

3599—“Indeed, my Lord commanded me to teach you what you do not know of what He taught me today: Every possession I have bestowed upon a servant is lawful. I created all My servants inclined to the true religion, but the devils came to them and turned them away from their religion. They prohibited for them what I had made lawful for them, and commanded them to ascribe partners to Me for which I had sent down no authority. Allah looked upon the inhabitants of the earth and detested them—their Arabs and non-Arabs—except for remnants of the People of the Book. He said: ‘I have only sent you to test you and to test others through you. I have sent down to you a Book which water cannot wash away, and which you recite whether asleep or awake. Allah commanded me to burn Quraysh,’

(1) Al-Maktab al-Islami published it without my having reviewed it. Its “owner” (!) then added his own annotations to it—as is his habit! Among them, regarding this hadith, was his attribution of it to Muslim on the authority of Abu Sa'id, overlooking the fact that it is also found in al-Bukhari—as mentioned above.

١٢- أما حديث أبي هريرة: فقد أخرجه الترمذي (٣٦٦١) ، والطبراني في "الأ وسط " (٥٧٢٩) من طريق داود بن يزيد الأودي عن أبيه عنه به. قلت: وإسناده ضعيف؛ كما بينته- قديماً- في "تخريج أحاديث مشكلة الفقر" (١) (ص ١٧) . (تنبيه) : ألفاظ هذه الطرق والروايات مختلفة- بزيادة أو نقص-، ولكنها جميعاً متفقة على جملة: " لو كنت متخذاً خليلاً لاتخذت أبا بكرٍ خليلاً "، وهي الأصل في الحديث كما لا يخفى. والحمد لله على توفيقه. * ٣٥٩٩- (ألا إنَّ ربِّي أمرني أنّ أعلِّمَكم ما جهلتُم مما علَّمني يومي هذا؛ كلُّ مال نَحَلْتُهُ عبداً حلالٌ، وإنّي خلقتُ عبادي حُنفاء كلّهم، وإنّهم أتتهم الشياطين فاجتالتهُم عن دينهم، وحرمت عليهم ما أحللتُ لهم، وأمرتهُم أن يشركوا بي ما لم أُنزِّل به سلطاناً، وإنّ الله نَظَرَ إلى أهل الأرض فمقتهم؛ عربهم وعجمهم؛ إلا بقايا من أهل الكتاب. وقال: إنّما بعثتُك لأبتليك وأبتلي بك، وأنزلتُ عليك كتاباً لا يغسله الماءُ، تقرؤه نائماً وبقظان، وإنّ الله أمرني أن أحرِّق قريشاً،

(١) وقد نشره المكتب الإسلامي دون مراجعة مني له، وقد كتب عليه (صاحبه) (!) تعليقات له- كعادته -! وكان منها- على هذا الحديث- أن عزاه لمسلم عن أبي سعيد! وفاته أنه في البخاري- أيضاً-!! - كما تقدم-.