1.)
Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem
was-salaat was-salaam `alaa Rasul-illah wa 'alaa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam
HADITH FROM THE FATHERS (
riwayat al-abna' `an aba'ihim)
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Imam Nawawi said:
Among the best of the narrations of sons from fathers is that of
(the hafiz) al-Khatib (al-Baghdadi) with a chain going back to
`Abd al-Wahhab
ibn `Abd al-`Aziz
ibn al-Harith
ibn Asad
ibn al-Layth
ibn Sulayman
ibn al-Aswad
ibn Sufyan
ibn Yazid
ibn Akina al-Tamimi who said:
I heard my father (Yazid) say:
I heard my father (Sufyan) say:
I heard my father (al-Aswad) say:
I heard my father (Sulayman) say:
I heard my father (al-Layth) say:
I heard my father (Asad) say:
I heard my father (al-Harith) say:
I heard my father (`Abd al-`Aziz) say:
I heard my father (`Abd al-Wahhab) say:
I heard `Ali ibn Abi Talib say:
"The merciful one (al-hannan ) is he who comes to the one
who shunned him, and the one who bestows favor (al-mannan ) is he
who extends the favor before he is asked for it."
Nawawi cites it in his treatise on the science of hadith entitled
_al-Taqrib wa al-taysir li ma`rifat sunan al-bashir al-nadhir_
(Beirut: Dar al-kutub al-`ilmiyya, 1407/1987) p. 101.
Blessings and Peace on the Prophet, his Family, and his Companions.
