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bukhari:3765Ibn Abū Maryam > Nāfiʿ b. ʿUmar

Somebody said to Ibn ʿAbbas, "Can you speak to the chief of the believers Muʿawiyah, as he does not pray except one rakʿa as witr?" Ibn ʿAbbas replied, "He is a Faqih (i.e. a learned man who can give religious verdicts) ."  

البخاري:٣٧٦٥حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ حَدَّثَنَا نَافِعُ بْنُ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ قِيلَ لاِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ هَلْ لَكَ فِي أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَإِنَّهُ مَا أَوْتَرَ إِلاَّ بِوَاحِدَةٍ قَالَ

إِنَّهُ فَقِيهٌ  


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tabarani:5546Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Dabarī > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Ibn ʿUyaynah > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Khālid > al-Shaʿbī > ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿqil > ʿAlī Ṣallá > Sahl b. Ḥunayf Fakabbar ʿAlayh Sit Thum al-Tafat Ilaynā

[Machine] "It is early morning."  

الطبراني:٥٥٤٦حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدَّبَرِيُّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبِي خَالِدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَعْقِلٍ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا ؓ صَلَّى عَلَى سَهْلِ بْنِ حُنَيْفٍ فَكَبَّرَ عَلَيْهِ سِتًّا ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا فَقَالَ

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