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ahmad:1757 – Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Malik > Muḥammad b. Salamah > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Ḥakīm > al-Qāsim > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "It is not befitting for a prophet to say that he is better than Yunus ibn Matta." Abu Abdur Rahman reported it and Haroon ibn Ma'roof narrated a similar hadith.  

أحمد:١٧٥٧ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي حَكِيمٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَا يَنْبَغِي لِنَبِيٍّ أَنْيَقُولَ إِنِّي خَيْرٌ مِنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ مَتَّى قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ هَارُونُ بْنُ مَعْرُوفٍ مِثْلَهُ  

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ahmad:10952 – Hāshim > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd from my father > Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Abū Hurayrah

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Nobody has the right to say that I am better than Jonah bin Matta." (Using translation from Bukhārī 4631)  

أحمد:١٠٩٥٢ – حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمٌ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَا يَنْبَغِي لِعَبْدٍ أَنْ يَقُولَ أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ مَتَّى