Ahmad 7320

Its chain of transmission is sahih. This is actually three hadiths that Sufyan bin Uyayna narrated as a single narration. This is why someone asked him at the end, "Who mentioned these?" and he said, "Abu Zinad, from Araj, from Abu Hurairah," confirming and verifying the chain. The two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) separated them into three hadiths, as we will mention in the sourcing. Therefore we assigned the number to the first of them, and mentioned the others with number 2 for the second and number 3 for the third.The first of them, Malik narrated it in Muwatta 928, from Abu Zinad, with this chain. Bukhari narrated it 9:467, and Muslim 2:147, both through Malik.7318-M1 "I am like a man who kindled a fire, and when it lit up what was around it, moths and creeping creatures began to plunge into it, so I am holding you back by your waistbands, while you plunge into it."(7318-M1) This is the second of those three hadiths. Bukhari narrated it 6:333-334 and 11:272, through Shuayb, from Abu Zinad, and Muslim narrated it 2:206, through Mughira bin Abdul-Rahman, from Abu Zinad. He narrated it after that from the hadith of Hammam bin Munabbih, from Abu Hurairah, in similar wording.Al-farash, with fatha on the fa, a light ra, and ending in a dotted shin, refers to the moths that throw themselves into the light of a lamp, the singular being farasha. As for these creeping creatures, the Hafiz said, they include gnats and mosquitoes. Bihujazikum, hujaz, with damma on the ha and fatha on the jim, is the plural of hujza, with damma on the ha and sukun on the jim, which is the place where the waist-wrap is tied, and then the waist-wrap itself came to be called hujza, by association. See what was mentioned earlier in the Musnad of Ibn Masud, 3704, and what will come in the Musnad of Jabir, 14944.As for his saying "akhidhu," Nawawi related two readings for it, akhidhu, with damma on the kha and dhal, a present-tense verb for the first person, and akhidhun, with kasra on the kha along with a nunated damma on the dhal, an active participle. The meaning is sound either way. Tawaqauna, its origin is tatawaqauna, with one of the two ta letters dropped.The Hafiz said in Fath al-Bari 6:334, Ghazali said, "The likeness represents the state of a human being's plunging into desires by comparing it to the moths' plunging into the fire, but the ignorance of the human is worse than the ignorance of the moth, because the moth, being deceived by the outward appearance of the light, has its suffering end the instant it burns, whereas the human remains in the fire for a long time, or forever."7318-M2 "The likeness of the prophets is like a man who built a building, made it excellent and complete and beautiful, and the people began to go around it saying, 'We have never seen a building more excellent than this, except for this one brick,' so I am that brick." Sufyan was asked, "Who mentioned this?" He said, "Abu Zinad, from Araj, from Abu Hurairah."(7318-M2) This is the third of them. Muslim narrated it 2:206, from Amr Naqid, from Sufyan bin Uyayna, with this chain, but in his version the beginning reads, "The likeness of me and the likeness of the prophets," adding the word "the likeness of me" at the start. It also has "the brick" instead of "the gap" in both places. He then narrated it 2:206-207, through the narration of Hammam bin Munabbih from Abu Hurairah, and through the narration of Abu Salih from Abu Hurairah, in similar wording. Bukhari narrated it 6:408, through the narration of Abu Salih.His saying "yutifuna" is from the quadriliteral form. It is said, tafa bil-qawm, and alayhim, tawfan, and tawfanan, and mutafan, and atafa, meaning "he circled around," as is the wording in Lisan al-Arab. Ath-thulma, with damma on the thal (the three-dotted tha) and sukun on the lam, means the gap or breach in a wall or elsewhere.