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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ كَانَ سُدُسَ الْإِسْلَامِ

ibnhibban:7062 – Abū Yaʿlá > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Muḥammad b. Abū ʿUbaydah b. Maʿn from my father > al-Aʿmash > al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman from his father

[Machine] "Abdullah ibn Masood said, "I have seen myself as the sixth among only six Muslims on the face of the earth."

ابن حبّان:٧٠٦٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو يَعْلَى* حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ مَعْنٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ

عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ «لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي سَادِسَ سِتَّةٍ مَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مُسْلِمٌ غَيْرُنَا»

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hakim:5368 – Abū Bakr b. Isḥāq al-Imām > Ismāʿīl b. Qutaybah > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Muḥammad b. Abū ʿUbaydah from his father > al-Aʿmash > al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman from his father > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

[Machine] "I have seen myself as the sixth of sixty [Muslims] on earth, none of whom are other than us." It is a sound chain of transmission and it hasn't been reported correctly.

الحاكم:٥٣٦٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْإِمَامُ أَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ قُتَيْبَةَ ثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

«لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي سَادِسَ سِتَّةٍ مَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مُسْلِمٌ غَيْرَنَا» صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ صحيح

tabarani:8406 – [Chain 1] Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaḍramī > Abū Kurayb [Chain 2] ʿAbdān b. Aḥmad > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Muḥammad b. Abū ʿUbaydah from his father > al-Aʿmash > al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman from his father > Ibn Masʿūd

[Machine] I have seen myself as the sixth of six Muslims on the face of the earth.

الطبراني:٨٤٠٦ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَا ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

لَقَدْ «رَأَيْتُنِي سَادِسَ سِتَّةٍ مَا عَلَى ظَهْرِ الْأَرْضِ مُسْلِمٌ غَيْرُنَا»

suyuti:430-106b – Ibn Masʿūd
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السيوطي:٤٣٠-١٠٦b –

"عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِى سَادِسَ سِتَّةٍ مَا عَلَى ظَهْرِ الأَرْضِ مُسْلِمٌ غيرنا".

[ش] ابن أبى شيبة