Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الأَشْعَثِيُّ، وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ، وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَاللَّفْظُ لأَحْمَدَ قَالَ الأَشْعَثِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ إِنَّ أَخْنَعَ اسْمٍ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ رَجُلٌ تَسَمَّى مَلِكَ الأَمْلاَكِ زَادَ ابْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ فِي رِوَايَتِهِ لاَ مَالِكَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَالَ الأَشْعَثِيُّ قَالَ سُفْيَانُ مِثْلُ شَاهَانْ شَاهْ وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَخْنَعَ فَقَالَ أَوْضَعَ
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Abdul Hamid Siddiqui
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:The vilest name in Allah's sight is Malik al-Amidh (King of Kings). The narration transmitted on the authority of Shaiba (contains these words): There is no king but Allah, the Exalted and Glorious. Sufyan said: Similarly, the word Shahinshah (is also the vilest appellation). Ahmad b. Hanbal said: I asked Abu 'Amr about the meaning of Akhna. He said: The vilest
Chain of Narrators (Isnad)
The chain is ordered from the source of the saying to the compiler: 1 = the speaker/first transmitter, the following links those who passed it on in turn, and at the bottom Muslim who compiled the work. Click a narrator to list every hadith in which he appears; the number in parentheses is how many hadiths across the collections on this site the narrator appears in.
- 1Abu Hurairah (2252 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2'Abdur Rahman bin Harmaz al-A'araj (368 hadiths) an
- 3Ebü'z-Zinâd (272 hadiths) an
- 4Sufyan bin 'Uyaynah (1088 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 5Saîd b. Amr (25 hadiths) and Ahmad bin Hanbal (24 hadiths) and Ebû Bekir b. Ebî Şeybe (1329 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 6Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 5 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.
