What is the authenticity and the narrations of the hadith about the glad tidings of the killing of Kisra?
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Question:
I brought the hadith of Kisra: the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) giving glad tidings of his killing?
Answer:
And what does it say?
The student: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. It says: The chapter on what came regarding the death of Kisra and the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) informing of it. Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Rudhabari informed us, saying: Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Saffar informed us, saying: Ahmad ibn al-Walid al-Fahham narrated to us, saying: Shadhan Aswad ibn Amir narrated to us, saying: Hammad ibn Salamah informed us, from Humayd, from al-Hasan, from Abu Bakrah, that a man from the people of Persia came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “My Lord has killed your Lord,” meaning Kisra. It was said to him—meaning the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)—that he had appointed his daughter as his successor, so he said: “A people who are ruled by a woman will not prosper.” It was also narrated in the hadith of Dhihyah ibn Khalifah al-Kalbi that when he returned to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from Caesar, he found at his place the messengers of Kisra’s governor over Sana'a. This was because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had written to Kisra, so Kisra wrote to his companion in Sana'a, threatening him and saying: “Does not one man who has emerged in your land calling me to his religion suffice you? Either you deal with him, or I will do so with you.” So the companion of Sana'a sent to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) read the letter of their companion, he left them for fifteen nights, then he said to them: “Go to your companion and say: My Lord has killed your Lord tonight.” So they went and informed him. Dhihyah said: Then the news came that Kisra was killed that night.
Dawud ibn Abi Hind also mentioned it from Amir al-Sha'bi with the same meaning, and he named the governor to whom Kisra wrote, saying: Badhan, the companion of Yemen. When the letter came to Badhan, he chose two men from the people of Persia and wrote to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with what Kisra had written regarding his return to the religion of his people or his threat to meet him one day. Then he mentioned the meaning in the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: “And convey to him that my Lord has killed his Lord.” It was as he had informed. Abu Abd Allah al-Hafiz and Abu Sa'id ibn Abi Amr informed us, saying: Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn Ya'qub narrated to us, saying: Ahmad ibn Yunus narrated to us, saying: Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash narrated to us, from Dawud, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: Sa'd came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: “The face of Sa'd is a sign of good,” or he said: “Goodness.” He said: “O Messenger of Allah, Kisra has perished,” or he said: “Kisra has been killed.” So he said: “May Allah curse Kisra. The first people to perish are the Persians, then the Arabs.”
And its men are as follows: Abu Abd Allah al-Hafiz is Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Hakim, the Imam, the author of al-Mustadrak. Abu Sa'id ibn Abi Amr is Muhammad ibn Musa, and al-Dhahabi deemed him trustworthy. Abu al-Abbas al-Asamm is Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Sannani, and Ibn Khuzaymah, Abu Nu'aym, al-Dhahabi, and others deemed him trustworthy. Al-Dhahabi said about him in al-Sirah: “He heard from fathers, sons, and grandsons, and it is sufficient for him in honor that he narrated for all those years and no one found a fault in him with any argument.” Ahmad ibn Yunus is Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Yunus, named after his grandfather, a trustworthy memorizer from the senior members of the tenth generation, and the group of hadith collectors narrated from him. Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash is al-Asadi al-Muqri, famous by his kunyah, and the most correct is that it is his name; Abu al-Hajjaj al-Mizzi preferred this in Tadhhib al-Kamal. Ibn Hajar deemed him a trustworthy worshipper, but when he grew old, his memory deteriorated. His book al-Sahih is from the seventh generation, and Muslim narrated from it in the introduction, as did the people of the Sunan. Dawud is Dawud ibn Ali ibn al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib al-Hashimi, Abu Sulayman, the Amir of Makkah and others, acceptable from the sixth generation, and al-Bukhari narrated from him in al-Adab al-Mufrad, as did al-Tirmidhi. His father, Ali ibn al-Abbas, is a trustworthy worshipper from the third generation, and al-Bukhari narrated from him in al-Adab al-Mufrad, as did Muslim and the people of the Sunan. And Imam Ahmad said in his Musnad: “Aswad ibn Amir narrated to us, Hammad ibn Salamah from Humayd from al-Hasan from Abu Bakrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man from the people of Persia came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and he said: ‘My Lord, Blessed and Exalted is He, has killed your Lord’—meaning Kisra. It was said to him—meaning the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)—that he had appointed his daughter as his successor. He said: ‘A people who have entrusted their affairs to a woman will not prosper.’” I said: This last phrase was narrated by al-Bukhari in his Sahih, and the hadith in its entirety was narrated by al-Bayhaqi in Dalail al-Nubuwwah from the route of Aswad ibn Amir. Al-Albani said after it in al-Sahihah: “And its chain is according to the conditions of Muslim, and there is no defect in it except what is feared from al-Hasan al-Basri’s en'enah regarding tadlis, but he explicitly stated the narration in another report at Ahmad; so the hadith is authentic, and praise be to Allah.”
And Abu Nu'aym narrated from Dhihyah ibn Khalifah al-Kalbi that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:, and al-Albani authenticated it in Sahih al-Jami', and I did not find its chain at Abu Nu'aym.
And Ibn Juriyyah narrated it in al-Tabari's history from Yazid ibn Abi Habib as a mursal report.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward you. It contains the news of his death, and there is no harm in it. The first chain is acceptable, but it has a corroborating narration, so the second makes it hasan.
I brought the hadith of Kisra: the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) giving glad tidings of his killing?
Answer:
And what does it say?
The student: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. It says: The chapter on what came regarding the death of Kisra and the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) informing of it. Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Rudhabari informed us, saying: Isma'il ibn Muhammad al-Saffar informed us, saying: Ahmad ibn al-Walid al-Fahham narrated to us, saying: Shadhan Aswad ibn Amir narrated to us, saying: Hammad ibn Salamah informed us, from Humayd, from al-Hasan, from Abu Bakrah, that a man from the people of Persia came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “My Lord has killed your Lord,” meaning Kisra. It was said to him—meaning the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)—that he had appointed his daughter as his successor, so he said: “A people who are ruled by a woman will not prosper.” It was also narrated in the hadith of Dhihyah ibn Khalifah al-Kalbi that when he returned to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from Caesar, he found at his place the messengers of Kisra’s governor over Sana'a. This was because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had written to Kisra, so Kisra wrote to his companion in Sana'a, threatening him and saying: “Does not one man who has emerged in your land calling me to his religion suffice you? Either you deal with him, or I will do so with you.” So the companion of Sana'a sent to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) read the letter of their companion, he left them for fifteen nights, then he said to them: “Go to your companion and say: My Lord has killed your Lord tonight.” So they went and informed him. Dhihyah said: Then the news came that Kisra was killed that night.
Dawud ibn Abi Hind also mentioned it from Amir al-Sha'bi with the same meaning, and he named the governor to whom Kisra wrote, saying: Badhan, the companion of Yemen. When the letter came to Badhan, he chose two men from the people of Persia and wrote to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with what Kisra had written regarding his return to the religion of his people or his threat to meet him one day. Then he mentioned the meaning in the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: “And convey to him that my Lord has killed his Lord.” It was as he had informed. Abu Abd Allah al-Hafiz and Abu Sa'id ibn Abi Amr informed us, saying: Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn Ya'qub narrated to us, saying: Ahmad ibn Yunus narrated to us, saying: Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash narrated to us, from Dawud, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: Sa'd came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: “The face of Sa'd is a sign of good,” or he said: “Goodness.” He said: “O Messenger of Allah, Kisra has perished,” or he said: “Kisra has been killed.” So he said: “May Allah curse Kisra. The first people to perish are the Persians, then the Arabs.”
And its men are as follows: Abu Abd Allah al-Hafiz is Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Hakim, the Imam, the author of al-Mustadrak. Abu Sa'id ibn Abi Amr is Muhammad ibn Musa, and al-Dhahabi deemed him trustworthy. Abu al-Abbas al-Asamm is Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Sannani, and Ibn Khuzaymah, Abu Nu'aym, al-Dhahabi, and others deemed him trustworthy. Al-Dhahabi said about him in al-Sirah: “He heard from fathers, sons, and grandsons, and it is sufficient for him in honor that he narrated for all those years and no one found a fault in him with any argument.” Ahmad ibn Yunus is Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Yunus, named after his grandfather, a trustworthy memorizer from the senior members of the tenth generation, and the group of hadith collectors narrated from him. Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash is al-Asadi al-Muqri, famous by his kunyah, and the most correct is that it is his name; Abu al-Hajjaj al-Mizzi preferred this in Tadhhib al-Kamal. Ibn Hajar deemed him a trustworthy worshipper, but when he grew old, his memory deteriorated. His book al-Sahih is from the seventh generation, and Muslim narrated from it in the introduction, as did the people of the Sunan. Dawud is Dawud ibn Ali ibn al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib al-Hashimi, Abu Sulayman, the Amir of Makkah and others, acceptable from the sixth generation, and al-Bukhari narrated from him in al-Adab al-Mufrad, as did al-Tirmidhi. His father, Ali ibn al-Abbas, is a trustworthy worshipper from the third generation, and al-Bukhari narrated from him in al-Adab al-Mufrad, as did Muslim and the people of the Sunan. And Imam Ahmad said in his Musnad: “Aswad ibn Amir narrated to us, Hammad ibn Salamah from Humayd from al-Hasan from Abu Bakrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man from the people of Persia came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and he said: ‘My Lord, Blessed and Exalted is He, has killed your Lord’—meaning Kisra. It was said to him—meaning the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)—that he had appointed his daughter as his successor. He said: ‘A people who have entrusted their affairs to a woman will not prosper.’” I said: This last phrase was narrated by al-Bukhari in his Sahih, and the hadith in its entirety was narrated by al-Bayhaqi in Dalail al-Nubuwwah from the route of Aswad ibn Amir. Al-Albani said after it in al-Sahihah: “And its chain is according to the conditions of Muslim, and there is no defect in it except what is feared from al-Hasan al-Basri’s en'enah regarding tadlis, but he explicitly stated the narration in another report at Ahmad; so the hadith is authentic, and praise be to Allah.”
And Abu Nu'aym narrated from Dhihyah ibn Khalifah al-Kalbi that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Go to your companion and inform him that my Lord has killed his Lord tonight, meaning Kisra
اذهبوا إلى صاحبكم فأخبروه أن ربي قد قتل ربه الليلة يعني كسرىAnd Ibn Juriyyah narrated it in al-Tabari's history from Yazid ibn Abi Habib as a mursal report.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward you. It contains the news of his death, and there is no harm in it. The first chain is acceptable, but it has a corroborating narration, so the second makes it hasan.
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