A voice in the chain
كثير بن قيس الشامي
كثير بن قيس ، ويقال : قيس بن كثير
Appears in 3 hadith across the six canonical collections.
An abridged path through the isnād
From the Prophet ﷺ to the written books
مُحَمَّد ﷺ
The Messenger
Immediate teacher layer
Received from
كثير بن قيس الشامي
Selected narrator
Immediate student layer
Passed onward to
Preserved in the six books
صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari
0
صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
0
سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abi Dawud
1
جامع الترمذي
Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi
1
سنن النسائي
Sunan an-Nasa’i
0
سنن ابن ماجه
Sunan Ibn Majah
1
Historical scholarship
Classical assessments
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani
ضعيف
Life & identity
Biographical notes
- Lineage / nisba
- الشامي
- Generation
- الثالثة
- Lived in
- الشام
- Relatives
- ابنه : كثير بن كثير بن قيس
Teachers in the transmission
Received from
Students in the transmission
Passed onward to
The written record
Hadith in this narrator’s chain
Abu Dawud · 3641كُنْتُ جَالِسًا مَعَ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ فِي مَسْجِدِ دِمَشْقَ ، فَجَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ ، فَقَالَ : يَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ ، إِنِّي جِئْتُكَ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ الرَّسُولِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِحَدِيثٍ بَلَغَنِي أَنّNarrated Kathir ibn Qays: Kathir ibn Qays said: I was sitting with Abud Darda in the mosque of Damascus. A man came to him and said: Abud Darda, I have come to you from the town of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for a traditio6 narratorsTirmidhi · 2682مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَبْتَغِي فِيهِ عِلْمًا سَلَكَ اللَّهُ بِهِ طَرِيقًا إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ ، وَإِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ لَتَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا رِضَاءً لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ ، وَإِنَّ الْعَالِمَ لَيَسْتَغْفِرُ لَهُ مَنْ فِي الس9 narrators·parallel chainIbn Majah · 223مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَلْتَمِسُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا ، سَهَّلَ اللَّهُ لَهُ طَرِيقًا إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ ، وَإِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ لَتَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا رِضًا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ ، وَإِنَّ طَالِبَ الْعِلْمِ يَسْتَغْفِرُ لَهُ مَنْ 6 narrators