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Wabisa ibn Ma'bad

وابصة بن معبد

A Companion who came to the Prophet ﷺ resolved to leave nothing of righteousness and sin unasked, and received 'consult your own soul' with three fingers poked into his chest — the second half of the twenty-seventh hadith of al-Nawawi's Forty; transmitted by Ahmad and al-Darimi and called a hasan hadith by al-Nawawi, though Ibn Rajab finds its circulated route doubly defective — a gap between al-Zubayr ibn Abd al-Salam and Ayyub, and al-Zubayr's own weakness — while sound paths from Abu Umama and Abu Tha'laba al-Khushani corroborate it.

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Overview

Wabisa ibn Ma'bad ibn Malik al-Asadi, of Asad ibn Khuzayma, known by the kunya Abu Salim. He was a Companion who settled in Kufa, then moved to al-Raqqa and remained there until he died 1.

Lineage and kunya

Ibn al-Athir reports that Abu Umar mentioned him with a lineage, and that Ibn Manda and Abu Nu'aym mentioned him with a longer lineage that rises to the Banu Asad ibn Khuzayma 1.

His narration

He had companionship and narrated hadith from the Prophet. His two sons Amr and Salim narrated from him, as did al-Sha'bi and Ziyad ibn Abi al-Ja'd 1.

For young visitors

Wabisa ibn Ma'bad was of the Banu Asad. He was a Companion of the Prophet, then moved from Kufa to al-Raqqa, where he died. His two sons and some of the Successors narrated from him.

Notes for researchers

  • The context of his narration of the Prophet at the start of the entry is not clear in the scanned text after automatic correction. We have not given the wording, and it should be checked in the accepted edition before the text is added.
  • The mention of Ziyad ibn Abi al-Ja'd among the narrators rests on the cited page. We have not yet checked his biography.

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Mentioned in
Arba'un 27 — righteousness is good character / consult your heart

People and things also explored

Righteousness (birr)· Husn al-khuluq (good character)· al-Nawwas ibn Sam'an· Arba'un 27 — righteousness is good character / consult your heart

Sources

  1. Usd al-ghaba fi ma'rifat al-sahaba — Ibn al-Athir , p.1233
  • Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
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Righteousness (birr)

In the twenty-seventh hadith of the Forty, righteousness (birr) and sin (ithm) are defined through conscience and character together: in al-Nawwas ibn Sam'an's report in Muslim (2553), 'righteousness is good character, and sin is what wavers in your soul and you dislike for people to see it' — righteousness reduced to sheer character, and sin marked by inner unease joined to dislike of public exposure; and in Wabisa ibn Ma'bad's report in Ahmad and al-Darimi, the Prophet commanded 'consult your own soul' while poking his chest with three fingers: righteousness is what the heart and soul are at peace with, and sin is what wavers in the heart and hesitates in the breast even if people give verdict upon verdict — inner rest and expansiveness made the sign of righteousness, and inner hesitation the sign of sin even against the muftis' rulings; Abu Umama's route 'if something wavers in your breast, leave it' and Abu Tha'laba al-Khushani's 'righteousness is what the soul rests in and the heart is at peace with … even if the muftis give you verdicts' corroborate it, both chains sound for Ibn Rajab.