Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدٌ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَةُ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا ـ رضى الله عنه ـ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ ح حَدَّثَنِي صَدَقَةُ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَةُ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ـ رضى الله عنهم ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ خَيْرُ نِسَائِهَا مَرْيَمُ، وَخَيْرُ نِسَائِهَا خَدِيجَةُ .
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Muhammad Muhsin Khan (1997)
Narrated `Ali: I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying (as below) Narrated `Ali: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The best of the world's women is Mary (at her lifetime), and the best of the world's women is Khadija (at her lifetime).
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 al-Bukhari 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.
This hadith is transmitted through 2 separate chains (turuq); each chain is shown separately.
Path 1
- 1Ali b. Ebû Tâlib (172 hadiths) Source of the saying semi'tu
- 2'Abdullah ibn Ja'far (10 hadiths) semi'tu
- 3'Urwa ibn al-Zubayr (918 hadiths) an
- 4Hisham bin 'Urwa (595 hadiths) an
- 5Abd'h bin Sulaiman (94 hadiths) ahberanâ
- 6Muhammad bin 'Abdullah bin Numayr (329 hadiths) haddesenî
- 7Compiler Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari
Chain length: 6 narrators.
Path 2
- 1Ali b. Ebû Tâlib (172 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2'Abdullah ibn Ja'far (10 hadiths) semi'tu
- 3babası (522 hadiths) an
- 4Hisham bin 'Urwa (595 hadiths) an
- 5Abd'h bin Sulaiman (94 hadiths) ahberanâ
- 6Sadqah bin al-Fadl (44 hadiths) haddesenî
- 7Compiler Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari
Chain length: 6 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.
