صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim — Hadith 261
Compiled by Imam Muslim
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَسَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَبَّكَ قَالَ نُورٌ أَنَّى أَرَاهُ
English Translation
Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Abu Bakar bin Abu Syaibah] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Waki'] dari [Yazid bin Ibrahim] dari [Qatadah] dari [Abdullah bin Syaqiq] dari [Abu Dzar] dia berkata, "Aku bertanya kepada Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam, 'Apakah kamu melihat Rabbmu? ' Beliau menjawab, 'Hanya cahaya, bagaimana mungkin aku bisa melihatNya.
About Sahih Muslim
Born
204 AH / 820 CE — Nishapur, Iran
Died
261 AH / 875 CE
Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj was a student of Imam al-Bukhari. He compiled Sahih Muslim selecting from approximately 300,000 hadiths, arranging his collection thematically and grouping all chains of each hadith together — making it uniquely easy to study the complete transmission history of a single narration.
Sahih Muslim took 15 years to complete. Its unique arrangement — all isnads for one hadith in one place — remains unmatched in the hadith literature.
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