Hadith Details
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المقدمة
Introduction
وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ مَهْدِيٍّ، يَقُولُ لاَ يَكُونُ الرَّجُلُ إِمَامًا يُقْتَدَى بِهِ حَتَّى يُمْسِكَ عَنْ بَعْضِ مَا سَمِعَ .
‘A man cannot be an Imām whose example is followed until he withholds from some of what he hears’.
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Other hadiths from the same chapter
- Hadith 11
‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’.
- Hadith 13
‘Iyās bin Mu’āwiyah asked me saying: ‘Indeed I see that you love knowledge of the Qur’ān, so recite for me a Sūrah and explain it until I can reflect on what…
- Hadith 10
‘Know that a man who relates everything he hears is not safe, and he can never be an Imām, as long as he narrates everything he hears’.
- Hadith 14
‘It is the case that you do not relate to the people a narration which their minds cannot grasp except that it becomes a Fitnah for some of them’.
- Hadith 9
‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’.
- Hadith 6
‘There will be in the last of my nation a people narrating to you what you nor your fathers heard, so beware of them’.