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hakim:5128Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Bālawayh > al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Shabīb al-Maʿmarī > Muṣʿab b. ʿAbdullāh al-Zubayrī > Nuʿaym al-Naḥḥām > Nuʿaym b. ʿAbdullāh b. Khālid b. Usayd b. ʿAbd ʿAwf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAwīj b. ʿAdī b. Kaʿb Aslam Qabl al-Hijrah Mimman Hājar > Arḍ al-Ḥabashah / al--Adhī Yuqāl Lah al-Naḥḥām Waʾinnamā Qīl Lah Dhalik

[Machine] He is called Al-Nahham, and he is called that because the Prophet ﷺ said, "I heard a voice of joy in Paradise." And Al-Nahham means the voice.  

الحاكم:٥١٢٨أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ بَالَوَيْهِ سَمِعْتُ الْحَسَنَ بْنَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ شَبِيبٍ الْمَعْمَرِيَّ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ مُصْعَبَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الزُّبَيْرِيَّ يَقُولُ نُعَيْمُ النَّحَّامِ هُوَ نُعَيْمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ خَالِدِ بْنِ أُسَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ عَوْفِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عَوِيجِ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ أَسْلَمَ قَبْلَ الْهِجْرَةِ مِمَّنْ هَاجَرَ إِلَى أَرْضِ الْحَبَشَةِ وَهُوَ الَّذِي

يُقَالُ لَهُ النَّحَّامُ وَإِنَّمَا قِيلَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ لِأَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ «سَمِعْتُ نَحْمَةً مِنْ نُعَيْمٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ» وَالنَّحْمَةُ الصَّوْتُ