مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad Jābir ibn Samurah al-Suwāʾī (may Allah be pleased with him)
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مُسْنَدُ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ السُّوَائِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 243
Jābir ibn Samurah al-Suwāʾī (may Allah be pleased with him) reported:
I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “This affair [of the caliphate] will continue to prevail until twelve leaders have arisen,” then he ﷺ said something that I did not catch, so I asked my father what he had said. He said, “All of them will be from Quraysh.”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 243
حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ سَمُرَةَ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: «لَا يَزَالُ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ مَاضِيًا حَتَّى يَقُومَ اثْنَا عَشَرَ أَمِيرًا» ثُمَّ تَكَلَّمَ بِكَلِمَةٍ خَفِيَتْ عَلَيَّ، فَسَأَلْتُ أَبِي مَا قَالَ؟ قَالَ: «كُلُّهُمْ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ»
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on the conditions of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.
Chain: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah → ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr → Jābir ibn Samurah al-Suwāʾī (may Allah be pleased with him) → the Prophet ﷺ. Rijāl: (1) Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah ibn Mīmūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī (d. 198 AH); thiqah ḥāfiẓ faqīh imām. (2) ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr al-Lakhmī al-Kūfī (d. 136 AH); thiqah, though his memory changed in advanced age and he was occasionally noted for tadlīs. (3) Jābir ibn Samurah al-Suwāʾī: a Companion, brother-in-law of the Prophet ﷺ through his sister’s marriage to him (some sources describe a more distant kinship), who settled in Kūfah and is reported to have died there in the later part of the first century AH. Takhrīj: Muslim, Kitāb al-Imārah, bāb al-nās tabaʿun li-Quraysh (1821, 1822); al-Bukhārī also narrates a version of the “twelve leaders” tradition from Jābir ibn Samurah in Kitāb al-Aḥkām (7222, 7223); Abū Dāwūd (4279–4281). Commentary: This is one of the most discussed prophetic traditions in Islamic political history, understood by most commentators (following Ibn Kathīr and others) to refer to twelve righteous, capable rulers arising from Quraysh across history rather than twelve consecutive successors, since the actual line of caliphs after the Rāshidūn did not correspond neatly to a run of twelve; some identify the twelve with the four Rightly-Guided Caliphs plus select Umayyad rulers renowned for justice, though the matter remains a subject of ongoing scholarly discussion.
Chain: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah → ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr → Jābir ibn Samurah al-Suwāʾī (may Allah be pleased with him) → the Prophet ﷺ. Rijāl: (1) Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah ibn Mīmūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī (d. 198 AH); thiqah ḥāfiẓ faqīh imām. (2) ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr al-Lakhmī al-Kūfī (d. 136 AH); thiqah, though his memory changed in advanced age and he was occasionally noted for tadlīs. (3) Jābir ibn Samurah al-Suwāʾī: a Companion, brother-in-law of the Prophet ﷺ through his sister’s marriage to him (some sources describe a more distant kinship), who settled in Kūfah and is reported to have died there in the later part of the first century AH. Takhrīj: Muslim, Kitāb al-Imārah, bāb al-nās tabaʿun li-Quraysh (1821, 1822); al-Bukhārī also narrates a version of the “twelve leaders” tradition from Jābir ibn Samurah in Kitāb al-Aḥkām (7222, 7223); Abū Dāwūd (4279–4281). Commentary: This is one of the most discussed prophetic traditions in Islamic political history, understood by most commentators (following Ibn Kathīr and others) to refer to twelve righteous, capable rulers arising from Quraysh across history rather than twelve consecutive successors, since the actual line of caliphs after the Rāshidūn did not correspond neatly to a run of twelve; some identify the twelve with the four Rightly-Guided Caliphs plus select Umayyad rulers renowned for justice, though the matter remains a subject of ongoing scholarly discussion.
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