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Hadith 18
Hadith #
18
Book
Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār
Volume
1
Section
9
Part
Content
Chapter
The meaning of «Glorified be Allah»
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq
۞
1. We were told by my father, may Allah grant him mercy, that he said: We were told by Ali bin Ibrahim bin Hashim, from Muhammed bin ‘Isa ibn Ubayd, from Yunus bin Abdul-Rahman, from Hisham bin Abdul-Malik, that he said
I asked Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, about the meaning of «Glorified be Allah» [1], to which he said: An honoring of Allah.
حدثنا أبي - رحمه الله - قال: حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم بن هاشم عن محمد بن عيسى ابن عبيد، عن يونس بن عبد الرحمن، عن هشام بن عبد الملك قال
سألت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام عن معنى " سبحان الله " فقال: أنفة الله.
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