Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1782
حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حُمْرَانَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ، وَهُوَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ بُسْرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا كَبْشَةَ الأَنْمَارِيَّ، يَقُولُ كَانَتْ كِمَامُ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بُطْحًا . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ مُنْكَرٌ . وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ بُسْرٍ بَصْرِيٌّ هُوَ ضَعِيفٌ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْحَدِيثِ ضَعَّفَهُ يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَغَيْرُهُ . وَبُطْحٌ يَعْنِي وَاسِعَةٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Humayd ibn Mas‘adah narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Humran narrated to us, from Abu Sa‘id—who is ‘Abd Allah ibn Busr—who said: I heard Abu Kabshah al-Anmari say: ‘The caps of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) were broad.’ Abu ‘Isa said: This hadith is munkar (rejected). ‘Abd Allah ibn Busr was from Basra; he is weak according to hadith scholars. Yahya ibn Sa‘id and others regarded him as weak. But-h (broad) means wide.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The compiler explains the unusual descriptive term buth as meaning ‘wide’; the translation renders the caps as broad rather than imposing an additional image.
حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ،
The English witness omits the first two transmitters in the chain.
Should the English witness include the complete chain?
يَقُولُ كَانَتْ كِمَامُ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بُطْحًا .
The witness inserts an explanatory gloss ‘stretched over the head’; the Arabic compiler instead explains buth as ‘wide’ in the following note.
Should the witness's gloss be revised to match the compiler's explicit lexical explanation?