The longest chain found in Bukharee

– حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ ح و حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ حَدَّثَنِي أَخِي عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَتِيقٍ عَنْ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ أَنَّ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتَ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ حَدَّثَتْهُ عَنْ أُمِّ حَبِيبَةَ بِنْتِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَنْ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتِ جَحْشٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا يَوْمًا فَزِعًا يَقُولُ

Abul Yamaan narrated to us, [he said:] Shu’ayb narrated to us on the authority of az Zuhree. [1] Isma’eel narrated to us, [he said:] [2] my brother narrated to me on the authority of [3] Sulaymaan, on the authority of [4] Muhammad ibn Abee ‘Ateeq, on the authority of [5] ibn Shihaab, on the authority of [6]‘Urwah ibn az Zubayr that [7] Zaynab bint Abee Salamah narrated to him on the authority of [8] Ummu Habeebah bint Abee Sufyaan on the authority of [9] Zaynab bint Jahsh that the Messenger of Allaah – صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ – entered upon her one day in a state of alarm saying:

لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَيْلٌ لِلْعَرَبِ مِنْ شَرٍّ قَدْ اقْتَرَبَ فُتِحَ الْيَوْمَ مِنْ رَدْمِ يَأْجُوجَ وَمَأْجُوجَ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ وَحَلَّقَ بِإِصْبَعَيْهِ الْإِبْهَامِ وَالَّتِي تَلِيهَا قَالَتْ زَيْنَبُ بِنْتُ جَحْشٍ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَفَنَهْلِكُ وَفِينَا الصَّالِحُونَ قَالَ نَعَمْ إِذَا كَثُرَ الْخُبْثُ

Zaynab bint Jahsh said: ‘I said; O Messenger of Allaah, are we going to be destroyed while there are righteous people among us?’ He said; ‘Yes, if there is a lot of Khabath.’”  “There is no deity worthy of worship other than Allaah, woe to the Arabs from an evil that has approached. Today, a breach has opened up in the barricade of Ya-jooj and and Ma-jooj of this size, and he made a circle with his thumb and index finger.

وَهَذَا السَّنَد كُلّه مَدَنِيُّونَ ، وَهُوَ أَنْزَل مِنْ الَّذِي قَبْلَهُ بِدَرَجَتَيْنِ ، وَيُقَال إِنَّهُ أَطْوَل سَنَدًا فِي الْبُخَارِيّ فَإِنَّهُ تُسَاعِيّ ، وَغَفَلَ الزَّرْكَشِيُّ فَقَالَ : فِيهِ أَرْبَع نِسْوَة صَحَابِيَّات ، وَلَيْسَ كَمَا قَالَ ، بَلْ فِيهِ ثَلَاثَة كَمَا قَدَّمْت إِيضَاحه فِي أَوَائِل الْفِتَن

[Al Haafidh ibn Hajar states in Fath al Bahri :] All of the individuals in this chain are from Madeenah, and this chain is longer than the one before it by two narrators. It is said that it is the longest chain with al Bukhaaree, it has nine narrators in it. Az Zarkashee erred when he stated that this chain consists of four female companions, it is not so, rather there are only three female companions as I already clarified in the beginning of the ‘Book of Fitan’.

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