Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3478
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ خَشْرَمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي زِيَادٍ الْقَدَّاحِ، كَذَا قَالَ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ، عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ يَزِيدَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " اسْمُ اللَّهِ الأَعْظَمُ فِي هَاتَيْنِ الآيَتَيْنِِ : ( وإلَهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الرَّحْمَنُ الرَّحِيمُ ) وَفَاتِحَةِ آلِ عِمْرَانَ (الم * اللَّهُ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْحَىُّ الْقَيُّومُ ) " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Ali ibn Khashram narrated to us; ‘Isa ibn Yunus narrated to us, from ‘Ubaydullah ibn Abi Ziyad al-Qaddah—as he stated—from Shahr ibn Hawshab, from Asma’ bint Yazid, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘The Greatest Name of Allah is in these two verses: “Your God is One God; there is no god but He, the Most Merciful, the Compassionate”; and in the opening of Al ‘Imran: “Alif Lam Mim. Allah—there is no god but He, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer.”’ Abu ‘Isa said: ‘This is a hasan sahih hadith.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
كَذَا قَالَ
The source includes the brief editorial phrase ‘thus he said’ in the transmission chain; the English witness omits it.
Should this chain-side remark be retained verbatim in the translation?