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2859. An-Nawwās bin Sam'ān Al-Kilābī narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Indeed Allāh has made a parable of the straight path: At the sides of the path there are walls with open doors, each door having a curtain. There is a caller at the head of the path calling, and a caller above it calling. And Allāh invites to the abode of peace and guides whomever He wills to the straight path. The doors which are on the sides of the path are the Hudūd (legal limitations) of Allāh; no one breaches the Hudūd of Allāh except that curtain is lifted, and the one calling from above it is his Lord." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Gharīb. I heard 'Abdullāh bin 'Abdur-Raḥmān saying: "I heard Zakariyyā bin 'Adī saying: 'Abū Ishāq Al-Fazārī said: "Take from Baqiyyah what he narrates to you from the trustworthy, and do not take from Ismā'il bin 'Ayyāsh what he narrates to you from the
trustworthy, nor those who are not trustworthy.”
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Commentary
In the Noble Qur'an and the Sunnah, many, intellectual and spiritual points are explained through parables and examples to represent them like the objects of sense, so that the mind can absorb them understandably and also that the human being would be impressed with the given examples. In this Hadīth, the Straight Path means Islam.
