A voice in the chain
حبيب بن أبي ثابت الأسدي
حبيب بن أبي ثابت : قيس بن دينار ، ويقال : قيس بن هند ويقال : هند
Appears in 140 hadith across the six canonical collections.
An abridged path through the isnād
From the Prophet ﷺ to the written books
مُحَمَّد ﷺ
The Messenger
Immediate teacher layer
Received from
حبيب بن أبي ثابت الأسدي
Selected narrator
Immediate student layer
Passed onward to
Preserved in the six books
صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari
17
صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
24
سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abi Dawud
22
جامع الترمذي
Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi
24
سنن النسائي
Sunan an-Nasa’i
30
سنن ابن ماجه
Sunan Ibn Majah
23
Historical scholarship
Classical assessments
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani
ثقة فقيه جليل ، وكان كثير الإرسال والتدليس
Al-Dhahabi
كان ثقة ، مجتهدا ، فقيها
Life & identity
Biographical notes
- Kunya
- أبو يحيى
- Lineage / nisba
- الكوفي ، الكاهلي ، الأسدي مولاهم
- Generation
- الثالثة
- Died
- 119 هـ ، أو 122هـ
- Lived in
- الطائف, الكوفة
- Travelled to
- الطائف
- Relatives
- مولى بني أسد بن عبد العزى قاله المزي ، أو مولى بني كاهل بن أسد بن خزيمة وصوبه مغلطاي ، والد : عبيد الله ، وعبد الله
Teachers in the transmission
Received from
Students in the transmission
Passed onward to
The written record
Hadith in this narrator’s chain
Bukhari · 1979إِنَّكَ لَتَصُومُ الدَّهْرَ وَتَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ ، فَقُلْتُ : نَعَمْ ، قَالَ : إِنَّكَ إِذَا فَعَلْتَ ذَلِكَ هَجَمَتْ لَهُ الْعَيْنُ ، وَنَفِهَتْ لَهُ النَّفْسُ ، لَا صَامَ مَنْ صَامَ الدَّهْرَ صَوْمُ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ صThe Prophet (ﷺ) said to me, "You fast daily all the year and pray every night all the night?" I replied in the affirmative. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "If you keep on doing this, your eyes will become weak and your body will 5 narratorsBukhari · 2180نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ بَيْعِ الذَّهَبِ بِالْوَرِقِ دَيْنًاI asked Al-Bara' bin `Azib and Zaid bin Arqam about money exchanges. Each of them said, "This is better than I," and both of them said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the selling of silver for gold on credit. "6 narratorsBukhari · 2181نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ بَيْعِ الذَّهَبِ بِالْوَرِقِ دَيْنًاI asked Al-Bara' bin `Azib and Zaid bin Arqam about money exchanges. Each of them said, "This is better than I," and both of them said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the selling of silver for gold on credit. "6 narratorsBukhari · 3004حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ ، حَدَّثَنَا حَبِيبُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْعَبَّاسِ الشَّاعِرَ وَكَانَ لَا يُتَّهَمُ فِي حَدِيثِهِ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَمْرٍو A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) asking his permission to take part in Jihad. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked him, "Are your parents alive?" He replied in the affirmative. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, "Then exert yourself in their se5 narratorsBukhari · 3182أَلَسْنَا عَلَى الْحَقِّ وَهُمْ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ ؟ فَقَالَ :We were in Siffin and Sahl bin Hunaif got up and said, "O people! Blame yourselves! We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) on the day of Hudaibiya, and if we had been called to fight, we would have fought. But `Umar bin Al Khatab 7 narratorsBukhari · 3222مَنْ مَاتَ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ لَا يُشْرِكُ بِاللَّهِ شَيْئًا دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ ، أَوْ لَمْ يَدْخُلِ النَّارَ ، قَالَ : وَإِنْ زَنَى وَإِنْ سَرَقَ ، قَالَ : وَإِنْThe Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Gabriel said to me, 'Whoever amongst your followers die without having worshipped others besides Allah, will enter Paradise (or will not enter the (Hell) Fire)." The Prophet (ﷺ) asked. "Even if he 6 narratorsBukhari · 3419أَلَمْ أُنَبَّأْ أَنَّكَ تَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ وَتَصُومُ النَّهَارَ ، فَقُلْت : نَعَمْ ، فَقَالَ : فَإِنَّكَ إِذَا فَعَلْتَ ذَلِكَ هَجَمَتِ الْعَيْنُ وَنَفِهَتِ النَّفْسُ صُمْ مِنْ كُلِّ شَهْرٍ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ فَذَلِكَ صَThe Prophet (ﷺ) said to me, "I have been informed that you pray all the nights and observe fast all the days; is this true?" I replied, "Yes." He said, "If you do so, your eyes will become weak and you will get bored. So5 narratorsBukhari · 3526وَقَالَ لَنَا قَبِيصَةُ : أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ ، عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ، قَالَ : لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ وَأَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الأَقْرَبِينَ سورة الشعراء آWhen the Verse-- 'And warn your tribe of near kindred' (26.214). was revealed, the Prophet (ﷺ) started calling every tribe by its name.5 narratorsBukhari · 4348حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ : أَنَّ مُعَاذًا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ لَمَّا قَدِمَ الْيَWhen Mu`adh arrived at Yemen, he led them (i.e. the people of Yemen) in the Fajr prayer wherein he recited 'Allah took Abraham as a Khalil.' A man amongst the people said, "(How) glad the mother of Abraham is!" (In anoth11 narrators·parallel chainBukhari · 4481حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ , حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى , حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ , عَنْ حَبِيبٍ , عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ , عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ , قَالَ : قَالَ عُمَرُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ : أَقْرَؤُنَا أُبَي`Umar said, "Our best Qur'an reciter is Ubai and our best judge is `Ali; and in spite of this, we leave some of the statements of Ubai because Ubai says, 'I do not leave anything that I have heard from Allah's Messenger 8 narratorsBukhari · 4844يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ، وَلَنْ يُضَيِّعَنِي اللَّهُ أَبَدًاI went to Abu Wail to ask him (about those who had rebelled against `Ali). On that Abu Wail said, "We were at Siffin (a city on the bank of the Euphrates, the place where me battle took place between `Ali and Muawiya) A 6 narratorsBukhari · 4969حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ ، عَنْ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ`Umar asked the people regarding Allah's Statement 'When comes the Help of Allah (to you O Muhammad against your enemies) and the conquest of Mecca.' (110.1) They replied, "It indicates the future conquest of towns and p6 narrators