Sahih Muslim
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Chapter 47 · The Book of Virtuesحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ - وَاللَّفْظُ لِابْنِ الْمُثَنَّى - قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْعَالِيَةِ، يَقُولُ: حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ عَمِّ نَبِيِّكُمْ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ: مَا يَنْبَغِي لِعَبْدٍ أَنْ يَقُولَ: أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ مَتَّى وَنَسَبَهُ إِلَى أَبِيهِ.
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The Arabic text and the translations come from our previous collection: English from hadithapi.com, German and Turkish machine-translated (Gemini) and unreviewed. A new translation from the Arabic with the chain of narration will follow.
The son of the uncle of your Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), i.e. Ibn Abbas رضی اللہ عنہ , reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: It is not meet for a servant that he should say: I am better than Yunus bin Matta (and this Matta) is the name of his father.