عن الْمِقدامِ بنِ مَعْدِي كَرِبَ رضى الله عنه أن النبيَّ ﷺ قال: «ألا هل عسى رجُلٌ يَبْلُغُه الحديثُ عَنِّي وهو مُتَّكِئٌ على أريكته، فيقول: بينَنا وبينَكم كتابُ الله، فما وجدْنا فيه حلالًا استَحْلَلناه، وما وجدْنا فيه حرامًا حرَّمناه، وإنَّ ما حرَّمَ رسولُ الله ﷺ كما حرَّمَ اللهُ». وفي لفظ أبي داودَ: «ألا إني أوتيتُ الكتابَ ومثلَه معه».
Al-Miqdām ibn Ma‘dī karib narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
Perhaps someone is told a hadith I have said when he is reclining on his couch and he says: ‘Here is God’s Book between us: whatever we find in it to be permissible we will accept as permissible and whatever we find in it as forbidden we will accept as forbidden”. Know that what God’s Messenger has forbidden is just as God has forbidden. In Abu Dāwūd’s version: Know that I have been given the Book and its like with it. Related by Abu Dāwūd, 4604; al-Tirmidhī (his text), 2664; Ibn Mājah, 12.
Abu Karīmah al-Miqdām ibn Ma‘dīkarib ibn ‘Amr al-Kindī was one of the Prophet’s companions. He visited the Prophet in Madinah and stayed there for forty days. He later lived in Homs in Syria. Yaḥyā and al-Ḥasan, Jābir’s sons, reported hadiths from him, as did ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Abi ‘Awf. He died in Syria in Year 87 AH 706 CE.
