Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #29712

Muhammad bin Bashar told us, Abd al-Samad bin Abd al-Warith told us, Hashim, who is the son of Sa’id al-Kufi, told us, Kinana, Mawla, told us Safiyya said, “I heard Safiyya saying, ‘The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, entered upon me while I had four thousand stone seeds in front of me to recite the tasbih with.’ So I said: I have recited this hymn. So he said, “Shall I not teach you more than what you have sung.” So I said, “Yes, teach me.” He said, “Say, Glory be to Him.” God is the number of His creation. Abu Issa said: This is a strange hadith. We do not know it from the hadith of Safiya except from this perspective, from the hadith of Hashim ibn Happy Al-Kufi, but its chain of transmission is not known. And on the authority of Ibn Abbas.