Source: Bukhari 7504 · continuous numbering · Sahih — Collection stipulation · Not yet reviewed by a scholar
The Hadith (Arabic matn)
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " قَالَ اللَّهُ إِذَا أَحَبَّ عَبْدِي لِقَائِي أَحْبَبْتُ لِقَاءَهُ، وَإِذَا كَرِهَ لِقَائِي كَرِهْتُ لِقَاءَهُ ".
Translation
Narrated Abu Huraira:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Allah said, 'If My slaves loves the meeting with Me, I too love the meeting with him; and if he dislikes the meeting with Me, I too dislike the meeting with him.' " (See Hadith No. 514, Vol)
Isnād — the people who carried this hadith
5 narrators · 1 identified
al-Bukhārī(compiler)
حَدَّثَنَا— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
Names are exactly as printed. A narrator is identified only where that is certain; tapping any other name searches for the possible men. Grades are the rijāl works’ — reliable narrators alone do not make a hadith ṣaḥīḥ (irregularity and hidden defects are weighed too).
Similar wording found in…
2 same wording · 2 partial · group of 3 texts
Found automatically by comparing the Arabic wording of the text (not the chain). This is not a scholarly takhrīj — check the source before citing. Grades are each source’s own.
The printed edition’s own table pairs this hadith with the passage below. The words there are the commentator’s; we neither summarise them nor draw a ruling from them.
The hadith, its translation and grade are shown above. For more, change the depth or open the tabs: authenticity, commentary, related narrations and research material.
