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ibnhibban:13Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná > Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Sahm > Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī > Mālik b. Anas > Sālim Abū al-Naḍr > ʿUbaydullāh b. Abū Rāfiʿ > Abū Rāfiʿ

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "I do not know of a man who is faced with a situation from my affairs, whether I have commanded or forbidden something, and then he says, 'We do not know what is in the Book of Allah, but this is not in it.'"  

ابن حبّان:١٣حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَهْمٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْفَزَارِيُّ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ عَنْ سَالِمٍ أَبِي النَّضْرِ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي رَافِعٍ عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا أَعْرِفَنَّ الرَّجُلَ يَأْتِيهِ الْأَمْرُ مِنْ أَمْرِي إِمَّا أَمَرْتُ بِهِ وَإِمَّا نَهَيْتُ عَنْهُ فَيَقُولُ مَا نَدْرِي مَا هَذَا عِنْدَنَا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ لَيْسَ هَذَا فِيهِ»  


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Collected by Ḥākim, Ṭabarānī
hakim:369Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Ḥakam > Ibn Wahb > Mālik > Abū al-Naḍr > ʿUbaydullāh b. Abū Rāfiʿ

[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'I do not know of a man who reclines, and then an affair of my affairs comes to him which I have commanded or forbidden, and he says, "I don't know, this is the Book of Allah and it does not contain it."'"

Note: The English translation of the phrase "ﷺ" is "peace be upon him".  

الحاكم:٣٦٩حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ أَنْبَأَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَكَمِ أَنْبَأَ ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ أَبِي النَّضْرِ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي رَافِعٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَا أَعْرِفَنَّ الرَّجُلَ مُتَّكِئًا يَأْتِيهِ الْأَمْرُ مِنْ أَمْرِي مِمَّا أَمَرْتُ بِهِ أَوْ نَهَيْتُ عَنْهُ فَيَقُولُ مَا نَدْرِي هَذَا هُوَ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ وَلَيْسَ هَذَا فِيهِ  

tabarani:934[Chain 1] ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal from my father [Chain 2] Bishr b. Mūsá > al-Ḥumaydī > Sufyān > Sālim Abū al-Naḍr > ʿUbaydullāh b. Abū Rāfiʿ from his father

from Abu Rafi' and others, from the Prophet ﷺ who said: "Let me not find one of you reclining on his couch when a command I ordered, or a prohibition from me comes to him, and he says: 'I do not know. What we find in the Book of Allah, we follow it.'" (Using translation from Tirmidhī 2663)  

الطبراني:٩٣٤حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ ثنا أَبِي ح وَحَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ قَالَا ثنا سُفْيَانُ ثنا سَالِمٌ أَبُو النَّضْرِ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي رَافِعٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا أُلْفِيَنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ مُتَّكِئًا عَلَى أَرِيكَتِهِ يَأْتِيهِ الْأَمْرُ مِمَّا أَمَرْتُ بِهِ أَوْ نَهَيْتُ عَنْهُ فَيَقُولُ لَا نَدْرِي مَا وَجَدْنَا فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ اتَّبَعْنَاهُ