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tabarani:6885 – ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥusayn al-Miṣṣīṣī > al-Ḥasan b. Bishr > al-Ḥakam b. ʿAbd al-Malik > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Jannat al-Firdaws is the highest and best part of Paradise, located in the middle."  

الطبراني:٦٨٨٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْمِصِّيصِيُّ ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ ثنا الْحَكَمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «جَنَّةُ الْفِرْدَوْسِ هِيَ رَبْوَةُ الْجَنَّةِ الْعُلْيَا الَّتِي هِيَ أَوْسَطُهَا وَأَحْسَنُهَا»  

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tabarani:7088 – Samurah b. Jundub

[Machine] The messenger of Allah, ﷺ , used to say, "Verily, Al-Firdaus is the highest and best part of paradise."  

الطبراني:٧٠٨٨ – وَبِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ كَانَ يَقُولُ «إِنَّ الْفِرْدَوْسَ هِيَ رَبْوَةُ الْجَنَّةِ الْوُسْطَى الَّتِي هِيَ أَرْفَعُهَا وَأَحْسَنُهَا»  

tabarani:6886 – al-Ḥasan b. Jarīr al-Ṣūrī > Abū al-Jumāhir > Saʿīd b. Bashīr > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Al-Firdaus is the highest, the greatest, and the most central part of paradise, and from it the rivers of paradise flow."  

الطبراني:٦٨٨٦ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ الصُّورِيُّ ثنا أَبُو الْجُمَاهِرِ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «الْفِرْدَوْسُ رَبْوَةُ الْجَنَّةِ وَأَعْلَاهَا وَأَوْسَطُهَا وَمِنْهَا تَفَجَّرُ أَنْهَارُ الْجَنَّةِ»