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Sahih Muslim 28a

The messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) observed: He who said: “ There is no god but Allah, He is One and there is no associate with Him, that Muhammad is his servant and His messenger,…

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حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ رُشَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ، (يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُسْلِمٍ) عَنِ ابْنِ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عُمَيْرُ بْنُ هَانِئٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي جُنَادَةُ بْنُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عُبَادَةُ بْنُ الصَّامِتِ

قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ قَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَأَنَّ عِيسَى عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَابْنُ أَمَتِهِ وَكَلِمَتُهُ أَلْقَاهَا إِلَى مَرْيَمَ وَرُوحٌ مِنْهُ وَأَنَّ الْجَنَّةَ حَقٌّ وَأَنَّ النَّارَ حَقٌّ أَدْخَلَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ أَىِّ أَبْوَابِ الْجَنَّةِ الثَّمَانِيَةِ شَاءَ»

The messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) observed: He who said: “ There is no god but Allah, He is One and there is no associate with Him, that Muhammad is his servant and His messenger, that Christ is servant and the son of His slave-girl and he (Christ) His word which He communicated to Mary and is His Spirit, that Paradise is a fact and Hell is a fact,” Allah would make him (he who affirms these truths enter Paradise through any one of its eight doors which he would like).

۔ اوزاعی نے سلیمان بن موسٰی سے روایت کی ‘ انھوں نے کہا .میں ظاوس ‌رضی ‌اللہ ‌عنہ ‌ ‌ سے ملا اور ان سے کہا .مجھےشخص نے اس اس کرح حدیث سنائی ۔ انھوں کہا ’اگر تمہارے صاحب ( استاد ) پوری طرح قابل اعتماد ہیں توان سے اخذ کر لو ۔

Sahih Muslim 28a, Book 1, The Book of Faith, Hadith 47. 1 min read

What it means

The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) informs us that whoever utters the word of Tawhīd (monotheism), knows its meaning and acts accordingly, and bears witness that Muhammad (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) is the slave and Messenger of Allah, acknowledges the fact that Jesus is a slave of Allah and a messenger from Him,

whom Allah created by saying: "Be" and he was, and that he was one of the souls created by Allah, and declares his mother (Mary) innocent of the Jews' accusations, and believes that Paradise is true and Hellfire is true while believing in their existence and in their being bliss and punishment from Allah, and dies in this state, he will be admitted to Paradise even if he has been negligent in performing acts of obedience and has committed sins.

What it teaches

  • Allah Almighty created Jesus, son of Mary, by the word (Be) without a father.
  • Combining the two facts that Jesus and Muhammad (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon them both) are both slaves of Allah as well as His messengers. So they are Allah's messengers, thus, they must not be rejected; and they are Allah's slaves, thus, they must not be worshipped.
  • The merit of Tawhīd and how it expiates sins, and the fact that the monotheist will be eventually admitted to Paradise, even if he commits some sins.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam Muslim back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam MuslimCompiler, died 261 AH
  2. 2Dawud ibn RushaydTold us, Fourth generation, died 239 AH
  3. 3Al-Walid ibn MuslimTold us, Third generation, died 194 AH
  4. 4Abd ar-Rahman ibn YazidFrom, Third generation, died 153 AH
  5. 5Umayr ibn HaniTold me, Successor, died 127 AH
  6. 6Junadah ibn Abi UmayyahTold me, Companion, died 67 AH
  7. 7Ubadah ibn as-SamitTold us, Companion, died 32 AH

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