مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad Abī al-Ṭufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah (may Allah be pleased with him)
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مُسْنَدُ أَبِي الطُّفَيْلِ عَامِرِ بْنِ وَاثِلَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 219
Abū al-Ṭufayl (may Allah be pleased with him) reported:
He was asked, “Did you see the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?” He said, “Yes.” It was said, “Did you speak to him?” He said, “No, but I saw him set out to a certain place accompanied by ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd and some of his Companions, until he reached a spacious house and said, ‘Open this door.’“ It was opened, and the Prophet ﷺ went in, and I went in with him. There was a velvet blanket in the middle of the house, and he ﷺ said, “Lift this blanket.” They lifted it, and there was a one-eyed boy beneath it. He ﷺ said, “Get up, boy.” The boy got up, and he ﷺ asked him, “Boy, do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?” The boy answered, “Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?” This exchange was repeated three times, the boy each time returning the same reply, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ then said, “Seek refuge with Allah from the evil of this one” — twice.
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 219
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعِيدٍ مَوْلَى بَنِي هَاشِمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ الْمَازِنِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الطُّفَيْلِ وَسُئِلَ: هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ. قِيلَ: فَهَلْ كَلَّمْتَهُ؟ قَالَ: لَا، وَلَكِنِّي رَأَيْتُهُ انْطَلَقَ مَكَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَمَعَهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ وَأُنَاسٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ حَتَّى أَتَى دَارَ قَوْرَاءَ فَقَالَ: «افْتَحُوا هَذَا الْبَابَ» فَفُتِحَ، وَدَخَلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَدَخَلْتُ مَعَهُ، فَإِذَا قَطِيفَةٌ فِي وَسَطِ الْبَيْتِ، فَقَالَ: «ارْفَعُوا هَذِهِ الْقَطِيفَةَ» فَرَفَعُوهَا، فَإِذَا غُلَامٌ أَعْوَرُ تَحْتَهَا، فَقَالَ: «قُمْ يَا غُلَامُ». فَقَامَ الْغُلَامُ، فَقَالَ: «يَا غُلَامُ، أَتَشْهَدُ أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ؟» قَالَ الْغُلَامُ: أَتَشْهَدُ أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ؟ فَقَالَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ وَالْغُلَامُ يَرُدُّ عَلَيْهِ مِثْلَهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «تَعَوَّذُوا بِاللَّهِ مِنْ شَرِّ هَذَا» مَرَّتَيْنِ
| Grade: | Ḍaʿīf |
(weak), due to weaknesses in the chain below the level of Abū al-Ṭufayl.
Chain: Abū Saʿīd, mawlā Banī Hāshim → Mahdī ibn ʿImrān al-Māzinī → Abū al-Ṭufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah (may Allah be pleased with him). Rijāl: (1) Abū Saʿīd, mawlā Banī Hāshim: his precise identity is not firmly established among the biographical critics, several narrators bearing similar kunyahs and this nisbah being known, which contributes to the weakness of the chain. (2) Mahdī ibn ʿImrān al-Māzinī: a narrator for whom the rijāl works record little substantive biographical detail (a state the critics term mastūr or majhūl al-ḥāl). (3) Abū al-Ṭufayl: ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah al-Laythī; Companion (Ṣaḥābī); by consensus the last Companion to die, c. 100 AH (some say 110 AH) at Makkah; saw the Prophet ﷺ as a boy. Takhrīj: the story of the one-eyed boy is widely understood by the commentators to refer to Ibn Ṣayyād, a Jewish man of Madīnah who was suspected during the Prophet’s ﷺ lifetime of claiming knowledge of the unseen and who some later identified with speculation surrounding al-Dajjāl. The core narrative — of the Prophet ﷺ testing Ibn Ṣayyād with the ambiguous phrase “do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah” — is authentically established through other, sound chains, notably in al-Bukhārī, Kitāb al-Janāʾiz (1354) and Kitāb al-Adab (6173), and Muslim, Kitāb al-Fitan (2930), narrated from Ibn ʿUmar. Commentary: Though this particular chain through Abū al-Ṭufayl is weak, the underlying event is firmly attested elsewhere; the Prophet’s ﷺ guarded, non-committal questioning of Ibn Ṣayyād, and his instruction to seek refuge with Allah rather than pass definitive judgment on the boy’s nature, models the caution the Sharīʿah counsels regarding matters of the unseen.
Chain: Abū Saʿīd, mawlā Banī Hāshim → Mahdī ibn ʿImrān al-Māzinī → Abū al-Ṭufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah (may Allah be pleased with him). Rijāl: (1) Abū Saʿīd, mawlā Banī Hāshim: his precise identity is not firmly established among the biographical critics, several narrators bearing similar kunyahs and this nisbah being known, which contributes to the weakness of the chain. (2) Mahdī ibn ʿImrān al-Māzinī: a narrator for whom the rijāl works record little substantive biographical detail (a state the critics term mastūr or majhūl al-ḥāl). (3) Abū al-Ṭufayl: ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah al-Laythī; Companion (Ṣaḥābī); by consensus the last Companion to die, c. 100 AH (some say 110 AH) at Makkah; saw the Prophet ﷺ as a boy. Takhrīj: the story of the one-eyed boy is widely understood by the commentators to refer to Ibn Ṣayyād, a Jewish man of Madīnah who was suspected during the Prophet’s ﷺ lifetime of claiming knowledge of the unseen and who some later identified with speculation surrounding al-Dajjāl. The core narrative — of the Prophet ﷺ testing Ibn Ṣayyād with the ambiguous phrase “do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah” — is authentically established through other, sound chains, notably in al-Bukhārī, Kitāb al-Janāʾiz (1354) and Kitāb al-Adab (6173), and Muslim, Kitāb al-Fitan (2930), narrated from Ibn ʿUmar. Commentary: Though this particular chain through Abū al-Ṭufayl is weak, the underlying event is firmly attested elsewhere; the Prophet’s ﷺ guarded, non-committal questioning of Ibn Ṣayyād, and his instruction to seek refuge with Allah rather than pass definitive judgment on the boy’s nature, models the caution the Sharīʿah counsels regarding matters of the unseen.
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