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ذِكْرُ الْإِخْبَارِ عَنْ تَشْبِيهِ الْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ الْكَلِمَةَ الطَّيِّبَةَ بِالنَّخْلَةِ، وَالْخَبِيثَةَ بِالْحَنْظَلِ

ibnhibban:475Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná > Ghassān b. al-Rabīʿ > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Shuʿayb b. al-Ḥabḥāb > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] The messenger of Allah ﷺ was brought a piece of a branch and he said: "A good word is like a good tree, its root is firmly established and its branches are in the sky, it produces its fruit at all times by the permission of its Lord." He said: "It is the palm tree." And he said: "And the example of a bad word is like a bad tree, it is uprooted from the surface of the earth, it has no stability." He said: "It is the thorny plant."  

ابن حبّان:٤٧٥أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا غَسَّانُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ * عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ شُعَيْبِ بْنِ الْحَبْحَابِ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ أُتِيَ بِقِنَاعِ جَزْءٍ فقَالَ {مَثَلًا كَلِمَةً طَيِّبَةً كَشَجَرَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصْلُهَا ثَابِتٌ وَفَرْعُهَا فِي السَّمَاءِ تُؤْتِي أُكُلَهَا كُلَّ حِينٍ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهَا} فقَالَ «هِيَ النَّخْلَةُ» {وَمَثَلُ كَلِمَةٍ خَبِيثَةٍ كَشَجَرَةٍ خَبِيثَةٍ اجْتُثَّتْ مِنْ فَوْقِ الْأَرْضِ مَا لَهَا مِنْ قَرَارٍ} قَالَ «هِيَ الْحَنْظَلَةُ»