The Messenger of Allah (sallalahu `Alayhi wa sallam) one day said : " Verily Allah ta`la raised and placed this world in front of me such that i am seeing everything in it and that which is about to occur until Qiyamah just like how i see this hand of mine. This is a clear (divine) manifestation (bestowal - جَلِيَّانِ) for his prophet just like how he manifested (similar blessings) for the prophets before
[Ref: Kanz ul-`Ummal 11/420 hadeeth 31971; Mu`jam az-Zawaid lit-Tabraani 8/ 287; Hilyatul Awliyah of Abu Nu`aym 2/101; Very weak ]
Answer & Tahkeeq :
The following answer is a combination of what i translated from Hafidh Zubayr `Ale Zaee's tahkeeq posted in Alhadees Shumaro 106, Page 8 with additional notes and insertion from myself
The chain of narration that comes in Tabraani and Hilyatul Awliya
حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ ، ثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ ، ثَنَا نُعَيْمُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ ، ثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ ، ثَنَا أَبُو الزَّاهِرِيَّةِ ، عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ
Flaw A)
The narrator Abu Mahdi Sa`eed ibn Sinan al-Hanafi [ His Nasb is also al-Hamsi and ash-Shaami and he is from the 8th tabaqah) is severely criticised
1) Imam Bukhaari rahimahullah said
منكر الحديث
his hadeeth are rejected
[Ref: Adh-Dhu`afa 136 page 48]
2) Imam an-Nasa`ee said :
متروك الحديث
His hadeeth are abandoned
[Ref: Kitaab ad-dhu`fa lin-Nasa`ee 268]
3) Imam Daraqutni
يضع الحديث
He fabricates Hadeeth
[Ref: al-`Ilal 525]
The Imam daraqutni also mentioned him in Ad-Dhu`fa
[Ref: Adh-Dhu`afa wal-Matrukeen 270]
Full narration :
• قال السلمي: سألت الدَّارَقُطْنِيّ عن سعيد بن سنان، فقال: هما اثنان سعيد بن سنان، أبو مهدي، حمصي، يضع الحديث، وسعيد بن سنان، أبو سنان، كوفي، سكن
[Ref: موسوعة أقوال أبي الحسن الدارقطني في رجال الحديث وعلله]
4) Imam Abu Haatim ar-Razi said :
ضعيف الحديث منكر الحديث
He is weak in Hadeeth and his hadeeth are rejected.
And then the Imaam said :
وقال أبو حاتم: يروي عن أبي الزاهرية عن كثير بن مرة عن ابن عمر عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم نحوا من ثلاثين حديثا منكرة.
He narrated thirty Munkar reports from the route of Abu Zaahiriy (Hadeer ibn Kareeb) from Katheer ibn Murrah from Ibn `Umar (radhiallahu `anhu)
[Ref: Jarh wa Ta`deel 4/28 No. 114]
5) Imam Muslim said the same as Imam Bukhaari :
منكر الحديث
6) Hafidh Dhahabi said :
Accused of being rejected
[Complete : عقب على حديث وقال: بل سعيد متهم به وله ترجمة فى الميزان ولم يذكر فيها أنه وضع]
[Ref: Al mughni fi adh dhuafa 1/406; No. 2411]
7) Hafidh Ibn Hajar said :
متروك الحديث
and elsewhere he also said
متروك ، و رماه الدارقطنى و غيره بالوضع
that he is abandoned Daraqutni and others have accused him of fabrication
[Ref: Taqreeb ut-Tahzeeb 2333]
8) Abu Ahmad al-Haakim
He is not established
9) Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said
• قال المروذى: قال أبو عبد الله: عيسى بن إبراهيم، وسعد بن سنان ليسا بشيء. ) .
Al-Marwazee reported that Abu `Abdullah said " `Isa ibn Ibraahim and Sa`eed ibn Sinan are nothing "
• وقال أحمد بن أبي يحيى: سمعت أحمد بن حنبل يقول: أبو مهدي، سعد بن سنان، ضعيف. ) .
Ahmad ibn Abi Yahya said that he heard Ahmad ibn Hanbal say Abu Mahdi is dha`eef
[Ref: This is taken from the book that enlists as the Mawsoo` of Imam Ahmad's statements on the narrators and their hidden defects by السيد أبو المعاطي النوري - أحمد عبد الرزاق عيد - محمود محمد خليل 2/36 - Also see al-Kaamil 801 and Su'alat 276]
10) Imam al-`Uqayli after mentioning a report said
العقيلي: لا يعرف هذا الحديث إلا بأبي المهدي ولا يتابع عليه
I do not know of this narration to come from except AbI Mahdi and he is not to be relied upon
[Ref: إكمال تهذيب الكمال في أسماء الرجال Narrator no. 1988 - Ibn Jawzi narrated this Jarh in his Mawdo`at]
11) أبو أحمد بن عدي الجرجاني criticising him said :
عامة ما يرويه وخاصة عن أبي الزاهرية غير محفوظ، وكان من صالحي أهل الشام وأفضلهم إلا أن في بعض رواياته ما فيه
12) Imam Abu Bakr al-Bazzar said :
سيئ الحفظ
He is of poor memory
13) Imam al-Bayhaqe said :
ضعيف عند أهل العلم بالحديث
He is weak near the people of knowledge in his hadeeth (maybe he specified hadeeth because of his Zuhd as Imam Dhahabee mentioned he was a Zaahid but weak in hadeeth\
14) Imam Abu Haatim ibn Hibban said that it was not permissible to quote him alone in your book except with...and he is rejected
منكر الحديث لا يعجبني الاحتجاج بخبره إذا انفرد، جاءت أحاديثه في نسخة أكثرها مقلوبة لا يحل ذكرها في الكتب إلا على سبيل القدح في ناقليها
15) Imam Makool also said the same
منكر الحديث
16) In fact Imam Abu Nu`aym himself said about him the same thing
الفلسطيني ويقال الحمصي يروي عن أبي الزاهرية بالمناكير
17) Imam Ahmad ibn Saalih al-Masri said
منكر الحديث ما أعرف من حديثه إلا حديثين أو ثلاثة
Rejected, i do not know any narrations from him except two or three
18) Imam `Ali ibn Madeeni said weak and another time that he does not know him (to be established)
ضعيف، ومرة: لا أعرفه
19) Imam Yahya ibn Ma`een rejected him with various criticism
من رواية عثمان بن سعيد قال: ليس بشئ، ومن رواية العباس قال: ليس بثقة، ومن رواية إبراهيم بن يعقوب قال: أحاديثه لا يعتبر بها هي بواطل
20) يعقوب بن سفيان الفسوي
said he is weak
21) However against this vast majority, صدقة بن خالد القرشي praisingly said :
ثقة مرضي
Hafidh Zubayr `Ali (rahimahullah) replying to this said : " This statement has a narrator by the name " a companion of Bani tameem" i.e he is unknown and as per the principles of this science such a narration that has unknown reporters is unreliable [See: Ikhtisaar `Uloom al-Hadeeth of Ibn Katheer the Urdu translation page 61-62 Qism 23]
Hafidh Nooruddin al-Haythami said about this narrator
He is very weak and some have narrated from others authenticating him but that is not right (or established)
[Ref: Majmoo` az-zawaid 5/127]
Flaw B)
The second flaw of this chain is the narrator بقية بن الوليد بن صائد بن كعب بن حريز
Conclusion:
This is a very weak and rejected narration.
More so, here is a table that refutes the concept of the Prophet (sallalahu `alayhi wa sallam) having absolute ilm ul-Ghayb. The position of Ahl as-Sunnah is that , like other prophets he also was given a small portion of ilm ul-Ghayb as and when Allah wished or revealed and thus to say that he (sallalahu `alayhi wa sallam) knew the unseen fully and absolutely this is tantamount to shirk , to understand why via a simple chart see :
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