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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
tabarani:1987 – [Chain 1] ʿUbayd b. Ghannām > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah [Chain 2] ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Muʿallá b. Mahdī > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > Simāk > Jābir

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "Indeed, Allah has commanded me to name the city as Tayyibah." And Abu Bakr said, "Tayyibah."  

الطبراني:١٩٨٧ – حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا مُعَلَّى بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِنَّ اللهَ ﷻ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُسَمِّيَ الْمَدِينَةَ طَيْبَةَ» وَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ طَابَةَ  

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muslim:1385 – Qutaybah b. Saʿīd And Hannād b. al-Sarī Waʾabū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > Simāk > Jābir b. Samurah

Allah named Medina as Tabba.  

مسلم:١٣٨٥ – وَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَهَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى سَمَّى الْمَدِينَةَ طَابَةَ  

ahmad:21049 – Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > Simāk b. Ḥarbqāl > Jābir b. Samurah

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "Indeed, Allah named the city as Ta'ba."  

أحمد:٢١٠٤٩ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍقَالَ سَمِعْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللهَ سَمَّى الْمَدِينَةَ طَابَةَ  

ahmad:20887 –

[Machine] "And I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, 'Indeed, Allah has named the city as Taba.'"  

أحمد:٢٠٨٨٧ – قَالَ

وَسَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللهَ سَمَّى الْمَدِينَةَ طَابَةَ  

ahmad:20916 – ʿAbdullāh > Khalaf b. Hishām > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > Simāk > Jābir b. Samurah

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "Indeed, Allah named the city as Taba."  

أحمد:٢٠٩١٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ حَدَّثَنَا خَلَفُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللهَ سَمَّى الْمَدِينَةَ طَابَةَ  

ahmad:20931 – ʿAbdullāh > Muḥammad b. Abū Ghālib > ʿAmr / Ibn Ṭalḥah > Asbāṭ > Simākʿan Jābir b. Samurah

[Machine] It was mentioned in the presence of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about Al-Madinah, so he said: "Indeed, Allah has named Al-Madinah as 'Tābāh'." Jabir said, "And I heard him (the Prophet) saying this."  

أحمد:٢٠٩٣١ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي غَالِبٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرٌو وَهُوَ ابْنُ طَلْحَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَسْبَاطٌ عَنْ سِمَاكٍعَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

ذُكِرَ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللهَ هُوَ سَمَّى الْمَدِينَةَ طَابَةَ قَالَ جَابِرٌ وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُهُ  

tabarani:1892 – [Chain 1] Muʿādh b. al-Muthanná > Musaddad > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Shuʿbah [Chain 2] Sulaymān b. al-Ḥasan > ʿUbaydullāh b. Muʿādh from my father > Shuʿbah > Simāk > Jābir b. Samurah

[Machine] I heard the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , say, "The city was named Tabah."  

الطبراني:١٨٩٢ – حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ثنا مُسَدَّدٌ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ ثنا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ ثنا أَبِي ثنا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ سَمُرَةَ يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «سُمِّيَ الْمَدِينَةُ طَابَةَ»  

nasai-kubra:4246 – Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > al-Aḥwaṣ > Simāk > Jābir b. Samurah

Allah named Medina as Tabba. (Using translation from Muslim 1385)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٤٢٤٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَحْوَصُ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِنَّ اللهَ سَمَّى الْمَدِينَةَ طَابَةَ»