Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)
الحديث القدسي
A hadith qudsi is what the Prophet related from his Lord, marked in the chains by the formula 'among what he relates from his Lord' — as in Abu Dharr's 'O My servants, I have forbidden injustice to Myself', transmitted by Muslim (2577), the first sacred hadith in al-Nawawi's Forty — while al-Tirmidhi's wording states 'God Almighty says' explicitly; the Imam Ahmad called it the noblest hadith of the people of Syria, and its narrator Abu Idris al-Khawlani would kneel on his knees whenever he transmitted it, as Sa'id ibn Abd al-Aziz related of him from Rabi'a ibn Yazid.
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Global / Diaspora
- Review
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People and things also explored
Qadar (divine decree)Injustice (zulm)Abu Dharr al-GhifariArba'un 24 — O My servants, I have forbidden injustice to MyselfCommand, prohibition and capacityBid'a (religious innovation)Connectedness of the isnad and proven hearingThe Qur'an as the speech of God (in the Tahawi creed)
Sources
- Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
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islam.museum contributors. “Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/hadith-qudsi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.