Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2663
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، وَسَالِمٍ أَبِي النَّضْرِ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي رَافِعٍ، عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ، وَغَيْرُهُ، رَفَعَهُ قَالَ " لاَ أُلْفِيَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ مُتَّكِئًا عَلَى أَرِيكَتِهِ يَأْتِيهِ أَمْرٌ مِمَّا أَمَرْتُ بِهِ أَوْ نَهَيْتُ عَنْهُ فَيَقُولُ لاَ أَدْرِي مَا وَجَدْنَا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ اتَّبَعْنَاهُ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ . وَرَوَى بَعْضُهُمْ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مُرْسَلاً وَسَالِمٍ أَبِي النَّضْرِ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي رَافِعٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم . وَكَانَ ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ إِذَا رَوَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَلَى الاِنْفِرَادِ بَيَّنَ حَدِيثَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ مِنْ حَدِيثِ سَالِمٍ أَبِي النَّضْرِ وَإِذَا جَمَعَهُمَا رَوَى هَكَذَا . وَأَبُو رَافِعٍ مَوْلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم اسْمُهُ أَسْلَمُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Ubaydullah ibn Abi Rafi‘ reported from his father and others, attributing it to the Prophet: ‘Let me not find one of you reclining on his couch when a command of mine or a prohibition of mine reaches him, saying, “I do not know. We follow only what we find in the Book of Allah.”’ Abu ‘Isa said: ‘This hadith is hasan.’ Some narrators transmitted it from Sufyan, from Ibn al-Munkadir, from the Prophet, as a mursal report, and from Salim Abu al-Nadr, from ‘Ubaydullah ibn Abi Rafi‘, from his father, from the Prophet. When Ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated this hadith separately, he distinguished the report of Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir from that of Salim Abu al-Nadr; when he combined them, he narrated it in this form. Abu Rafi‘, the freedman of the Prophet, was named Aslam.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source records both connected and mursal forms and explains how Ibn ‘Uyaynah handled the two routes separately or together. The name of Abu Rafi‘ is also supplied.