Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari 4817

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Sahih al-Bukhari 4817
Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، حَدَّثَنَا مَنْصُورٌ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مَعْمَرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ اجْتَمَعَ عِنْدَ الْبَيْتِ قُرَشِيَّانِ وَثَقَفِيٌّ ـ أَوْ ثَقَفِيَّانِ وَقُرَشِيٌّ ـ كَثِيرَةٌ شَحْمُ بُطُونِهِمْ قَلِيلَةٌ فِقْهُ قُلُوبِهِمْ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمْ أَتُرَوْنَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَسْمَعُ مَا نَقُولُ قَالَ الآخَرُ يَسْمَعُ إِنْ جَهَرْنَا وَلاَ يَسْمَعُ إِنْ أَخْفَيْنَا‏.‏ وَقَالَ الآخَرُ إِنْ كَانَ يَسْمَعُ إِذَا جَهَرْنَا فَإِنَّهُ يَسْمَعُ إِذَا أَخْفَيْنَا فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ‏‏{‏وَمَا كُنْتُمْ تَسْتَتِرُونَ أَنْ يَشْهَدَ عَلَيْكُمْ سَمْعُكُمْ وَلاَ أَبْصَارُكُمْ وَلاَ جُلُودُكُمْ‏}‏ الآيَةَ‏.‏ وَكَانَ سُفْيَانُ يُحَدِّثُنَا بِهَذَا فَيَقُولُ حَدَّثَنَا مَنْصُورٌ أَوِ ابْنُ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ أَوْ حُمَيْدٌ أَحَدُهُمْ أَوِ اثْنَانِ مِنْهُمْ، ثُمَّ ثَبَتَ عَلَى مَنْصُورٍ، وَتَرَكَ ذَلِكَ مِرَارًا غَيْرَ وَاحِدَةٍ‏.‏ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَنْصُورٌ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مَعْمَرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، بِنَحْوِهِ‏.‏

Translation

Al-Humaydi related to us: Sufyan related to us: Mansur related to us, from Mujahid, from Abu Mamar, from Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: At the House, two men from Quraysh and one from Thaqif—or two from Thaqif and one from Quraysh—gathered. Their bellies were very fat, but their hearts had little understanding. One said: Do you think Allah hears what we say? Another said: He hears us if we speak aloud, but not if we speak quietly. The other said: If He hears us when we speak aloud, then He hears us when we speak quietly too. So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, revealed: 'You did not conceal yourselves lest your hearing, your sight, and your skins testify against you'—to the end of the verse (Quran 41:22). Sufyan used to narrate this to us saying: Mansur, Ibn Abi Najih, or Humayd narrated it to us, one of them or two of them; then he settled on Mansur and abandoned that uncertainty on more than one occasion. Amr ibn Ali related to us: Yahya related to us: Sufyan al-Thawri related to us, saying: Mansur related to me, from Mujahid, from Abu Mamar, from Abdullah, with a report similar to it.

Translation notes

  • The source gives the narrator’s changing uncertainty over which of three transmitters narrated the report, followed by a second chain.