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Successors of the Successors

Waki' bin al-Jarrah

وكيع بن الجراح

  • † 197 AH
  • Kufa
  • Succ. Taba' Tabi' 9th generation

Lifetime

050100150200250Prophet ﷺal-Bukhari
† 197 AH
b.
129 AH
d.
197 AH
Places
Kufa
Names
وَكِيعٌ

Teachers and students

Hadiths in this chain

  • قُلْتُ لِعَلِيٍّ هَلْ عِنْدَكُمْ كِتَابٌ قَالَ لاَ، إِلاَّ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ، أَوْ فَهْمٌ أُعْطِيَهُ رَجُلٌ مُسْلِمٌ، أَوْ مَا فِي هَذِهِ الصَّحِيفَةِ. قَالَ قُلْتُ فَمَا فِي هَذِهِ الصَّحِيفَةِ قَالَ الْعَقْلُ، وَفَكَاكُ الأَسِيرِ، وَلاَ يُقْتَلُ مُسْلِمٌ بِكَافِرٍ.

    Abu Juhayfah reported: I said to Ali: “Do you have any written document?” He said: “No, except the Book of Allah, or an understanding given to a Muslim man, or what is in this sheet.” (Abu Juhayfah) said: I said: “And what is in this …

  • مَرَّ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِقَبْرَيْنِ فَقَالَ " إِنَّهُمَا لَيُعَذَّبَانِ، وَمَا يُعَذَّبَانِ فِي كَبِيرٍ أَمَّا أَحَدُهُمَا فَكَانَ لاَ يَسْتَتِرُ مِنَ الْبَوْلِ، وَأَمَّا الآخَرُ فَكَانَ يَمْشِي بِالنَّمِيمَةِ ". ثُمَّ أَخَذَ جَرِيدَةً رَطْبَةً، فَشَقَّهَا نِصْفَيْنِ، فَغَرَزَ فِي كُلِّ قَبْرٍ وَاحِدَةً. قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، لِمَ فَعَلْتَ هَذَا قَالَ " لَعَلَّهُ يُخَفَّفُ عَنْهُمَا مَا لَمْ يَيْبَسَا ".

    Ibn Abbas reported: The Prophet ﷺ passed by two graves and said, “These two are indeed being punished, and they are not being punished for something major. As for one of them, he did not guard himself against urine, and as for the other …

    also in Sahih al-Bukhari 216

Source of the biographical data: Hadith Narrators Dataset (fahd09, from muslimscholars.info) (CC0)