124 - Chapter on Following One's Desires

5130 - Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ narrated to us, Biqyah narrated to us, from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam al-Ghassānī, from Khālid ibn Muḥammad al-Thaqafī, from Bilāl ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ, from Abū al-Dardāʾ, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: "Your love of a thing makes you blind and deaf."(1)

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(1) It is authentic as a stopped narration (mawqūf), but this chain of transmission is weak due to the weakness of Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam, and Biqyah—who is Ibn al-Walīd—although weak, has been corroborated. Al-Suyūṭī cited it in "Al-Durr al-Manthūr" (186) and said: The stopped version is more likely correct.

It was also recorded by Aḥmad in his "Musnad" (21694) and (27548), ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd (205), al-Bukhārī in "Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr" 2/107, al-Bazzār (4125), al-Dūlābī in "Al-Kunā" 1/101 (546), al-Ṭabarānī in "Al-Awsaṭ" (4359) and in "Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn" (1454), Ibn ʿAdī in "Al-Kāmil" 2/472, Ibn Bishrān in "Amālīh" (524), al-Qudāʿī in "Musnad al-Shihāb" (219), and al-Bayhaqī in "Al-Shuʿab" (411), through multiple paths from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam, with this chain.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī in "Al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr," 2/107 and 3/171-172, via the path of al-Walīd ibn Muslim, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, with it. Khālid ibn Muḥammad is not in its chain.

It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn" (1468) via the path of Biqyah ibn al-Walīd, from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Maryam, from Ḥabīb ibn ʿUbayd, from Bilāl ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ, with it.

It was also recorded as a stopped narration (mawqūf) by al-Bukhārī in "Al-Tārīkh" 2/107, and he cited it in suspended form (muʿallaq) in 3/172, via the path of Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb, from Ḥumayd ibn Muslim, from Bilāl ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ, from his father. Only Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb narrated from Ḥumayd.

It was recorded as a stopped narration (mawqūf) by al-Bayhaqī in "Al-Shuʿab" (412) via the path of Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān, from Bilāl ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ, from his father. Its chain is authentic.

It was recorded by Abū al-Shaykh in "Al-Amthāl" (115) via the path of Biqyah ibn al-Walīd: Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from his father, who said: We were in a caravan when Bilāl ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ came out to us and interrupted our conversation. We said: [He is] the son of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said: I heard my father—and he mentioned it as a raised narration (marfūʿ). Biqyah is weak. =