Arabic Text
وَقَالَ أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، أَخْبَرَنِي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، سَمِعَ مُعَاوِيَةَ، يُحَدِّثُ رَهْطًا مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ بِالْمَدِينَةِ، وَذَكَرَ كَعْبَ الأَحْبَارِ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ مِنْ أَصْدَقِ هَؤُلاَءِ الْمُحَدِّثِينَ الَّذِينَ يُحَدِّثُونَ عَنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ، وَإِنْ كُنَّا مَعَ ذَلِكَ لَنَبْلُو عَلَيْهِ الْكَذِبَ.
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Muhammad Muhsin Khan (1997)
Narrated Humaid bin 'Abdur-Rahman that he heard Mu'awiya talking to a group of people from Quraish at Al-Madina, and on mentioning Ka'b Al-Ashbar, he said, "He was one of the most truthful of those who used to talk about the people of the Scripture, yet we used to detect certain faults in his information."
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 in this collection the narrator appears in.
- 1معاويه يحدث Mu'awiya ibn Abu Sufyan (9 hadiths) Source of the saying سمع semia
- 2حميد بن عبد الرحمن Humaid bin 'Abdur Rahman (50 hadiths) اخبرني ahberanî
- 3الزهري al-Zuhri (1267 hadiths) عن an
- 4شعيب Shu'aib bin Abi Hamza (291 hadiths) اخبرنا ahberanâ
- 5وقال ابو اليمان al-Hakm bin Nafi', Abu al-Yaman (285 hadiths)
- 6Compiler Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari
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.
