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The Various Occasions Related to Hadith al­Thaqalayn - 1. At `Arafat

1. At `Arafat

Al­Tirmidhi in his Sunan (v, 662, no. 3786) records the following tradition

    ....Jabir ibn `Abd Allah said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah - upon whom be God's peace and benedictions - in the course of his hajj pilgrimage on the day of `Arafah. The Prophet (S) was seated on his camel, al­Qaswa', and was delivering a sermon. I heard him say: 'O people, I am leaving among you that which if you hold on to you shall never go astray: the Book of Allah and my kindred, my household."

Al­Tirmidhi states that the same tradition has been narrated by Abu Dharr, Abu Sa`id, Zayd ibn Arqam and Hudhayfah ibn Usayd.

Among others who have recorded this tradition are:

    al­Hafiz Ibn Abi Shaybah, as in Kanz al­`ummal (1st ed.), i, 48;
    al­`Uqayli in al­Du`afa' al­Kabir, ii, 250;
    al­Hakim al­Tirmidhi, Nawadir al-'usul, 68, 50th asl;
    al­Tabarani, al­Mu`jam al­kabir, iii, 63, no. 2679;
    al­Khatib, al­Muttafiq wa al­muftariq, cf. Kanz al­`ummal, i, 48 and Majma' al­zawa'id, v, 195; ix, 163, x, 363, 268;
    al­Baghawi, al-Masabih, ii, 206;
    Ibn al­'Athir, Jami` al­'usul, i, 277, no. 65;
    al-Rafi`i, al­Tadwin, ii, 264 (in the biographical account of Ahmad ibn Mihran al­Qattan; this hadith has been deleted in the Indian print, but is present in the manuscripts of the book ! );
    al­Mizzi, Tahdhib al­kamal, x, 51, and Tuhfat al­'ashraf, ii, 278, no. 2615;
    al­Qadi al­Baydawi, Tuhfat al­'ashraf;
    al­Khwarazmi, Maqtal al­Husayn (A), i, 144;
    al­Khatib al­Tabrizi, Mishkat al­masabih, iii, 258;
    Ibn Kathir, Tafsir (Bulaq edition, on the margin of Fath al­bayan), ix, 115;
    al-Zarandi, Nazm al­durar al­simtayn, 232;
    al­Maqrizi, Ma`rifat ma yajib li Al al­Bayt al­Nabawi, 38.

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