Lesson 8: The Status of the Sunnah in the Sunnah Flashcards
The Hadith: “Whoever Obeys Me”
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> **مَنْ أَطَاعَنِي فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللَّهَ، وَمَنْ عَصَانِي فَقَدْ عَصَى اللَّهَ، وَمَنْ أَطَاعَ أَمِيرِي فَقَدْ أَطَاعَنِي، وَمَنْ عَصَى أَمِيرِي فَقَدْ عَصَانِي ".**
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> **Narrated Abu Huraira:**
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> **Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Whoever obeys me, obeys Allah, and whoever disobeys me, disobeys Allah, and whoever obeys the ruler I appoint, obeys me, and whoever disobeys him, disobeys me."**
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> Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 7137, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1835
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> Grade:***Muttafaqun Alayhi***(authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim
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> **مَن أَطَاعَنِي فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللَّهَ وَمَن عَصَانِي فَقَدْ عَصَى اللَّهَ وَمَن أَطَاعَ الأَمِيرَ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَنِي وَمَن عَصَى الأَمِيرَ فَقَدْ عَصَانِي**
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> **الراوي :أبو هريرة| المحدث :ابن حبان| المصدر :صحيح ابن حبان| الصفحة أو الرقم :4556| خلاصة حكم المحدث :أخرجه في صحيحه**
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> **Narrated Abu Huraira:**
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> **Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Whoever obeys me, obeys Allah, and whoever disobeys me, disobeys Allah, and whoever obeys the ruler, obeys me, and whoever disobeys the ruler has disobeyed me."**
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There is a difference between the obedience due to Allah and his messenger, and that of a ruler, which is for the former our obedience is absolute and unrestricted, while for the rulers it not absolute and restricted in scope.
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We already explain why we must obey the messenger, and it is the statement of Allah
> **وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ**
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> **إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْىٌۭ يُوحَىٰ**
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> **Nor does he speak of (his own) desire.**
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> **It is only a Revelation revealed.**
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> -Najm 3-4
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So when you oppose the Sunnah, in reality you are opposing Allah, as Allah was the one who revealed and inspired the prophet to say those words, and therefore, disobeying him is disobeying Allah.
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The Hadith: “Except the One Who Refuses”
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> **عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " كُلُّ أُمَّتِي يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ، إِلاَّ مَنْ أَبَى ". قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَنْ يَأْبَى قَالَ " مَنْ أَطَاعَنِي دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ، وَمَنْ عَصَانِي فَقَدْ أَبَى ".**
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**Narrated Abu Huraira:**
**Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "All my followers will enter Paradise except those who refuse." They said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Who will refuse?" He said, "Whoever obeys me will enter Paradise, and whoever disobeys me is the one who refuses (to enter it)."**
-Bukhari
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By turning away from his Sunnah, rejecting it, not implementing it, a person has refused Paradise, as they are not willing to follow the means to paradise- the Sunnah
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The Ahadith: “Whatever the Messenger Made Haraam”
Musnad Imam Ahmed, Sunan Abi Dawud, al hakim in his Mustadrak, with a good chain of narration from Al-Miqdam ibn Ma’dikarib:
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> **عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِيكَرِبَ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنَّهُ قَالَ " أَلاَ إِنِّي أُوتِيتُ الْكِتَابَ وَمِثْلَهُ مَعَهُ أَلاَ يُوشِكُ رَجُلٌ شَبْعَانُ عَلَى أَرِيكَتِهِ يَقُولُ عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذَا الْقُرْآنِ فَمَا وَجَدْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ حَلاَلٍ فَأَحِلُّوهُ وَمَا وَجَدْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ حَرَامٍ فَحَرِّمُوهُ أَلاَ لاَ يَحِلُّ لَكُمْ لَحْمُ الْحِمَارِ الأَهْلِيِّ وَلاَ كُلُّ ذِي نَابٍ مِنَ السَّبُعِ وَلاَ لُقَطَةُ مُعَاهِدٍ إِلاَّ أَنْ يَسْتَغْنِيَ عَنْهَا صَاحِبُهَا وَمَنْ نَزَلَ بِقَوْمٍ فَعَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يَقْرُوهُ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَقْرُوهُ فَلَهُ أَنْ يُعْقِبَهُمْ بِمِثْلِ قِرَاهُ " .**
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**Narrated Al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib:**
**The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Beware! I have been given the Qur'an and something like it, yet the time is coming when a man replete on his couch will say: Keep to the Qur'an; what you find in it to be permissible treat as permissible, and what you find in it to be prohibited treat as prohibited. Beware! The domestic ass, beasts of prey with fangs, a find belonging to confederate, unless its owner does not want it, are not permissible to you If anyone comes to some people, they must entertain him, but if they do not, he has a right to mulct them to an amount equivalent to his entertainment.**
> **وَعَن الْمِقْدَام بن معدي كرب عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنه قَالَ: «أَلا إِنِّي أُوتيت الْكتاب وَمِثْلَهُ مَعَهُ أَلَا يُوشِكُ رَجُلٌ شَبْعَانٌ عَلَى أَرِيكَتِهِ يَقُولُ عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذَا الْقُرْآنِ فَمَا وَجَدْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ حَلَالٍ فَأَحِلُّوهُ وَمَا وَجَدْتُمْ فِيهِ مِنْ حَرَامٍ فَحَرِّمُوهُ وَإِنَّ مَا حَرَّمَ رَسُولُ الله كَمَا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ أَلَا لَا يَحِلُّ لَكُمُ لحم الْحِمَارُ الْأَهْلِيُّ وَلَا كُلُّ ذِي نَابٍ مِنَ السَّبع وَلَا لُقَطَةُ مُعَاهَدٍ إِلَّا أَنْ يَسْتَغْنِيَ عَنْهَا صَاحِبُهَا وَمَنْ نَزَلَ بِقَوْمٍ فَعَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يُقْرُوهُ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَقْرُوهُ فَلَهُ أَنْ يُعْقِبَهُمْ بِمِثْلِ قِرَاهُ» رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَرَوَى الدَّارِمِيُّ نَحْوَهُ وَكَذَا ابْنُ مَاجَهْ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ: «كَمَا حَرَّمَ الله»**
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**Al-Miqdam b. Ma'dikarib reported God’s messenger as saying, “I have indeed been brought the Qur’an and something like it along with it, yet the time is coming when a man replete on his couch will say, ‘Keep to this Qur’an; what you find in it to be permissible treat as permissible, and what you find in it to be prohibited treat as prohibited.’ But what God’s messenger has prohibited is like what God has prohibited. The domestic ass, beasts of prey with fangs, a find belonging to a confederate, unless its owner does not want it, are not permissible to you. If anyone comes to some people they must entertain him, but if they do not, he has a right to mulct them to an amount equivalent to his entertainment.”**
Abu Dawud transmitted it, and Darimi transmitted something similar. Ibn Majah transmitted the same up to “like what God has prohibited.”
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> **لا أُلْفِيَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ مُتَّكِئًا عَلَى أَرِيكَتِهِ يَأْتِيهِ الأَمْرُ مِنْ أَمْرِي مِمَّا أَمَرْتُ بِهِ أَوْ نَهَيْتُ عَنْهُ فَيَقُولُ لاَ نَدْرِي مَا وَجَدْنَا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ اتَّبَعْنَاهُ **
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**Narrated AbuRafi':**
**The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Let me not find one of you reclining on his couch when he hears something regarding me which I have commanded or forbidden and saying: We do not know. What we found in Allah's Book we have followed.**
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These Ahadith in these wordings have been narrated by numerous companions that it reaches Mutawattir
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> **أَيَحْسَبُ أَحَدُكُمْ مُتَّكِئًا عَلَىٰ أَرِيكَتِهِ، قَدْ يَظُنُّ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَمْ يُحَرِّمْ شَيْئًا إِلَّا مَا فِي هَذَا ٱلْقُرْآنِ، أَلَا وَإِنِّي وَٱللَّهِ قَدْ وَعَظْتُ، وَأَمَرْتُ، وَنَهَيْتُ، عَنْ أَشْيَاءٍ إِنَّهَا لَمِثْلِ ٱلْقُرْآنِ،**
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> **Narrated Al-Irbad ibn Sariyah as-Sulami: {The messenger ﷺ said} Does any of you, while reclining on his couch, imagine that Allah has prohibited only that which is to be found in this Qur'an? By Allah, I have preached, commanded and prohibited various matters as numerous as that which is found in the Qur'an, or more numerous.**
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The Ahadith: “Hold On to It With Your Molar Teeth” & “hold onto 2”
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> **حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَوْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي خَالِدُ بْنُ مَعْدَانَ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو السُّلَمِيُّ، وَحُجْرُ بْنُ حُجْرٍ، قَالاَ أَتَيْنَا الْعِرْبَاضَ بْنَ سَارِيَةَ وَهُوَ مِمَّنْ نَزَلَ فِيهِ { وَلاَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ إِذَا مَا أَتَوْكَ لِتَحْمِلَهُمْ قُلْتَ لاَ أَجِدُ مَا أَحْمِلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ } فَسَلَّمْنَا وَقُلْنَا أَتَيْنَاكَ زَائِرِينَ وَعَائِدِينَ وَمُقْتَبِسِينَ . فَقَالَ الْعِرْبَاضُ صَلَّى بِنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا فَوَعَظَنَا مَوْعِظَةً بَلِيغَةً ذَرَفَتْ مِنْهَا الْعُيُونُ وَوَجِلَتْ مِنْهَا الْقُلُوبُ فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَأَنَّ هَذِهِ مَوْعِظَةُ مُوَدِّعٍ فَمَاذَا تَعْهَدُ إِلَيْنَا فَقَالَ " أُوصِيكُمْ بِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ وَالسَّمْعِ وَالطَّاعَةِ وَإِنْ عَبْدًا حَبَشِيًّا فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ يَعِشْ مِنْكُمْ بَعْدِي فَسَيَرَى اخْتِلاَفًا كَثِيرًا فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِسُنَّتِي وَسُنَّةِ الْخُلَفَاءِ الْمَهْدِيِّينَ الرَّاشِدِينَ تَمَسَّكُوا بِهَا وَعَضُّوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَمُحْدَثَاتِ الأُمُورِ فَإِنَّ كُلَّ مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٌ وَكُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلاَلَةٌ " .**
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> **Narrated Irbad ibn Sariyah:**
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> **AbdurRahman ibn Amr as-Sulami and Hujr ibn Hujr said: We came to Irbad ibn Sariyah who was among those about whom the following verse was revealed: "Nor (is there blame) on those who come to thee to be provided with mounts, and when thou saidst: "I can find no mounts for you."**
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> **We greeted him and said: We have come to see you to give healing and obtain benefit from you.**
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> **Al-Irbad said: One day the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) led us in prayer, then faced us and gave us a lengthy exhortation at which the eyes shed tears and the hearts were afraid.**
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> **A man said: Messenger of Allah! It seems as if it were a farewell exhortation, so what injunction do you give us?**
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> **He then said: I enjoin you to fear Allah, and to hear and obey even if it be an Abyssinian slave, for those of you who live after me will see great disagreement. You must then follow my sunnah and that of the rightly-guided caliphs. Hold to it and stick fast to it. Avoid novelties, for every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an error.**
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- A direct command to follow
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Imam Malik narrated saying **بَلَّغَنَا-** it reached us, and this isn’t a connected chain, but the scholars of Hadeeth said it is authentic, and has been connected in other places
> عَنْ مَالِك أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ**تَرَكْتُ فِيكُمْ أَمْرَيْنِ لَنْ تَضِلُّوا مَا تَمَسَّكْتُمْ بِهِمَا كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَسُنَّةَ نَبِيِّهِ**
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Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “**I have left you with two matters which will never lead you astray, as long as you hold to them: the Book of Allah and the Sunnahof his Prophet.**”
-Shaykh Albani said it is Saheeh
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Ibn Abdil Barr said on this hadith:
> **وَهَذَا أَيْضًا مَحْفُوظٌ مَعْرُوفٌ مَشْهُورٌ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ شُهْرَةً يَكَادُ يُسْتَغْنَى بِهَا عَنِ الْإِسْنَادِ وَرُوِيَ فِي ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَخْبَارِ الْآحَادِ أَحَادِيثُ مِنْ أَحَادِيثِ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَعَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ**
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The Hadith: “Do As Much As You Can”
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> **حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " دَعُونِي مَا تَرَكْتُكُمْ، إِنَّمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ بِسُؤَالِهِمْ وَاخْتِلاَفِهِمْ عَلَى أَنْبِيَائِهِمْ، فَإِذَا نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنْ شَىْءٍ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ، وَإِذَا أَمَرْتُكُمْ بِأَمْرٍ فَأْتُوا مِنْهُ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ ".**
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> **Narrated Abu Huraira:**
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> **The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Leave me as I leave you, for the people who were before you were ruined because of their questions and their differences over their prophets. So, if I forbid you to do something, then keep away from it. And if I order you to do something, then do of it as much as you can."**
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Even though this Hadith is more related to establishing the Sunnah as evidence, it is important in terms of the status of the Sunnah.
Whatever we find in it we must implement, be it a prohibition and we keep away, or a command and we do as much of it as we can.
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The Hadith: “Whoever Turns Away From My Sunnah”
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> **أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَفَّانُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، أَنَّ نَفَرًا، مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لاَ أَتَزَوَّجُ النِّسَاءَ . وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لاَ آكُلُ اللَّحْمَ . وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لاَ أَنَامُ عَلَى فِرَاشٍ . وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ أَصُومُ فَلاَ أُفْطِرُ . فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ " مَا بَالُ أَقْوَامٍ يَقُولُونَ كَذَا وَكَذَا لَكِنِّي أُصَلِّي وَأَنَامُ وَأَصُومُ وَأُفْطِرُ وَأَتَزَوَّجُ النِّسَاءَ فَمَنْ رَغِبَ عَنْ سُنَّتِي فَلَيْسَ مِنِّي**
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> It was narrated from Anas that there was a group of the Companions of the Prophet, one of whom said: "I will not marry women." Another said: "I will not eat meat." Another said: "I will not sleep on a bed." Another said: "I will fast and not break my fast." News of that reached the Messenger of Allah and he praised Allah then said: "What is the matter with people who say such and such? But I pray and I sleep, I fast and I break my fast, and I marry women. **Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not of me."**
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Statement of Ibn Abdil Barr on the Hadith narrated by Malik about what the messenger ﷺ left for us
Imam Malik narrated saying بَلَّغَنَا- it reached us, and this isn’t a connected chain, but the scholars of Hadeeth said it is authentic, and has been connected in other places
> عَنْ مَالِك أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَتَرَكْتُ فِيكُمْ أَمْرَيْنِ لَنْ تَضِلُّوا مَا تَمَسَّكْتُمْ بِهِمَا كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَسُنَّةَ نَبِيِّهِ
Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “I have left you with two matters which will never lead you astray, as long as you hold to them: the Book of Allah and the Sunnahof his Prophet.”
-Shaykh Albani said it is Saheeh
Ibn Abdil Barr said on this hadith:
> وَهَذَا أَيْضًا مَحْفُوظٌ مَعْرُوفٌ مَشْهُورٌ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ شُهْرَةً يَكَادُ يُسْتَغْنَى بِهَا عَنِ الْإِسْنَادِ وَرُوِيَ فِي ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَخْبَارِ الْآحَادِ أَحَادِيثُ مِنْ أَحَادِيثِ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَعَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍAnd this is also well-preserved, well-known, and famous from the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) among the people of knowledge, with such fame that it almost dispenses with the need for a chain of transmission. It has been narrated in this regard from the Ahad reports, including the hadiths of Abu Huraira and Amr ibn Auf.
