Mustadrak al-Hakim 8300

ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Dawraqī > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Imām > ʿAbdah b. ʿAbdullāh al-Khuzāʿī > al-Walīd b. al-Mughīrah > ʿAbdullāh b. Bishr al-Ghanawī from my father

I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, "Constantinople will be conquered, and what a wonderful leader its leader will be, and what a wonderful army that army will be." Ubaidullah said: "Then Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik called me and asked me about this hadith, so I narrated it to him, and he (Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik) then conquered Constantinople." – Sound

أَخْبَرَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْإِمَامُ ثَنَا عَبْدَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْخُزَاعِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ بِشْرٍ الْغَنَوِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «لَتُفْتَحَنَّ الْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّةُ وَلَنِعْمَ الْأَمِيرُ أَمِيرُهَا وَلَنِعْمَ الْجَيْشُ ذَلِكَ الْجَيْشُ» قَالَ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ «فَدَعَانِي مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ فَسَأَلَنِي عَنْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فَحَدَّثْتُهُ فَغَزَا الْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّةَ» هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخْرِجَاهُ صحيح – صحيح