Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ أَخْبَرَنَا وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ مُغِيرَةَ، عَنْ وَاصِلِ بْنِ حَيَّانَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي، الْهُذَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي الأَحْوَصِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ لَوْ كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ خَلِيلاً لاَتَّخَذْتُ ابْنَ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ خَلِيلاً وَلَكِنْ صَاحِبُكُمْ خَلِيلُ اللَّهِ
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Abdul Hamid Siddiqui
Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:If I were to choose amongst the people of earth someone as my bosom friend, I would have chosen the son of Abu Quhafa as my friends but God has taken your companion as a friend
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.
- 1ibn Mas'ud (365 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2'Auf bin Malik bin Nadlah (9 hadiths) an
- 3Ebû Mugîre (2 hadiths) an
- 4Wasl bin Hyan al-Ahdb (21 hadiths) an
- 5al-Mughira bin Maqsam (32 hadiths) an
- 6Cerîr b. Abdülhamîd (237 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 7Osman b. Ebû Şeybe (164 hadiths) and Zuhayr bin Harb (764 hadiths) and Ishaq bin Ibrahim Shykh (594 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 8Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 7 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.
