حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَعْدٍ هُوَ الصَّغَانِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيِّ عَنْ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَالِيَةِ عَنْ أُبَيِّ بْنِ کَعْبٍ أَنَّ الْمُشْرِکِينَ قَالُوا لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ انْسُبْ لَنَا رَبَّکَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ وَالصَّمَدُ الَّذِي لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ لَأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ شَيْئٌ يُولَدُ إِلَّا سَيَمُوتُ وَلَا شَيْئٌ يَمُوتُ إِلَّا سَيُورَثُ وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَا يَمُوتُ وَلَا يُورَثُ وَلَمْ يَکُنْ لَهُ کُفُوًا أَحَدٌ قَالَ لَمْ يَکُنْ لَهُ شَبِيهٌ وَلَا عِدْلٌ وَلَيْسَ کَمِثْلِهِ شَيْئٌ
جامع ترمذی · Hadith 3364
Abu Al-Aliyah narrated from Ubayy bin Ka’b: “The idolaters were saying to the Messenger of Allah: ‘Name the lineage of your Lord for us.’ So Allah, Most High, revealed: Say: “He is Allah, the One. Allah As-Samad.” So As-Samad is ‘the One Who does not beget, nor is He begotten,’ because there is nothing born except it will die, and there is nothing that dies except that it will be inherited from, and verily. Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, does not die, nor is He inherited from. ‘And there is none comparable to Him.’ He said: ‘There is nothing similar to Him, nor equal to Him, nor is there anything like Him.’”
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020