Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2226
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُرَيْجُ بْنُ النُّعْمَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا حَشْرَجُ بْنُ نُبَاتَةَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَفِينَةُ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الْخِلاَفَةُ فِي أُمَّتِي ثَلاَثُونَ سَنَةً ثُمَّ مُلْكٌ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ " . ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي سَفِينَةُ أَمْسِكْ خِلاَفَةَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَخِلاَفَةَ عُمَرَ وَخِلاَفَةَ عُثْمَانَ . ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي أَمْسِكْ خِلاَفَةَ عَلِيٍّ . قَالَ فَوَجَدْنَاهَا ثَلاَثِينَ سَنَةً . قَالَ سَعِيدٌ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ إِنَّ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ الْخِلاَفَةَ فِيهِمْ . قَالَ كَذَبُوا بَنُو الزَّرْقَاءِ بَلْ هُمْ مُلُوكٌ مِنْ شَرِّ الْمُلُوكِ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عُمَرَ وَعَلِيٍّ قَالاَ لَمْ يَعْهَدِ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي الْخِلاَفَةِ شَيْئًا . وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ قَدْ رَوَاهُ غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ وَلاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Aḥmad ibn Manī‘ narrated to us; Surayj ibn al-Nu‘mān narrated to us; Ḥashraj ibn Nubātah narrated to us, from Sa‘īd ibn Jumhān, who said: Safīnah told me that the Messenger of Allah said: “The caliphate in my community will last thirty years; then kingship will follow.” Safīnah then said to me, “Count the caliphates of Abū Bakr, ‘Umar, and ‘Uthmān.” Then he said to me, “Count the caliphate of ‘Alī.” We found that they came to thirty years.
Sa‘īd said: I said to him, “The Umayyads claim that the caliphate belongs to them.” He said, “The Banu al-Zarqā’ have lied; rather, they are kings, among the worst of kings.”
Abū ‘Īsā said: Reports on this topic are also related from ‘Umar and ‘Alī, both of whom said that the Prophet did not designate anything concerning the caliphate. This is a ḥasan hadith. More than one transmitter related it from Sa‘īd ibn Jumhān, but we know it only through the report of Sa‘īd ibn Jumhān.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Banu al-Zarqā’ (“the sons of the blue-eyed woman”) is retained as the report’s polemical designation; no additional identification is inserted into the translation.
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ عُمَرَ وَعَلِيٍّ قَالاَ لَمْ يَعْهَدِ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي الْخِلاَفَةِ شَيْئًا
The Arabic adds reports attributed to ‘Umar and ‘Alī concerning whether the Prophet designated a successor.
Should a fuller English witness be consulted for this compiler’s additional reports?
وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ قَدْ رَوَاهُ غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ وَلاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ
The source supplies a grading and a note on the limited known route; the English witness omits both.
Should a fuller English witness be consulted for this grading and route note?