Authored by: Hafiz Muhammad Anwar Zahid (ḥafiẓahullāh)
❖ The Statement of Hazrat Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه)
Hazrat Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was establishing bonds of brotherhood among his companions. He stated:
“Ali (رضي الله عنه) is my brother, and I am his brother. O Allah! Keep him away (from harm).”
[Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl: 7/104 | Also narrated by Ibn ʿAdī in al-Kāmil in the biography of Hayyāj]
❖ The Narrator:
This narration is reported by Hayyāj ibn Bisṭām al-Harawī, about whom several critical remarks from hadith scholars have been recorded:
✔ Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn stated: He is weak.
✔ Abū Dāwūd said: The hadith scholars have abandoned his narrations.
✔ Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal remarked: He is matrūk al-ḥadīth (abandoned in hadith).
➤ He passed away in the year 177 AH.
➤ No one has narrated from him except Ibn Mājah.
✔ Imām al-Nasāʾī wrote: Hayyāj ibn Bisṭām al-Harawī is weak.
[al-Ḍuʿafāʾ wa al-Matrūkīn by al-Nasāʾī, p. 105]
❖ Evaluation by
Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar (رحمه الله) wrote:
“Hayyāj ibn Bisṭām al-Tamīmī al-Barjami al-Harawī is weak. His son Khālid has transmitted many munkar (rejected) narrations from him. He passed away in the year 177 AH.”
[Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb: 367]
