Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3001
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ، عَنْ بَهْزِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِهِ : ( كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ ) قَالَ " إِنَّكُمْ تُتِمُّونَ سَبْعِينَ أُمَّةً أَنْتُمْ خَيْرُهَا وَأَكْرَمُهَا عَلَى اللَّهِ " . هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ . وَقَدْ رَوَى غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنْ بَهْزِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ نَحْوَ هَذَا وَلَمْ يَذْكُرُوا فِيهِ ( كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ ) .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Bahz ibn Hakim reported from his father, from his grandfather, that he heard the Prophet say concerning Allah’s words, “You are the best community brought forth for mankind” (Qur’an 3:110): “You complete seventy communities; you are the best of them and the most honored of them by Allah.” Abu ‘Isa graded this hadith hasan. More than one narrator transmitted similar wording from Bahz ibn Hakim without mentioning the Qur’anic phrase “You are the best community brought forth for mankind.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The alternate chains preserve the comparison with seventy communities but omit the quoted portion of Qur’an 3:110.