Musnad Ahmad 14662
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حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ قَرْمٍ عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الْقَتَّاتِ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
مِفْتَاحُ الْجَنَّةِ الصَّلَاةُ وَمِفْتَاحُ الصَّلَاةِ الطُّهُورُ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad
- Sulaymān b. Qarm
- Abū Yaḥyá al-Qattāt
- Mujāhid
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The key to Paradise is prayer, and the key to prayer is purification." Abdullah bin Ahmad said, "This is how it is recorded in the original narration: Hasan (good) and the correct version is Husayn (better)."
Notes
قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ هَكَذَا وَقَعَ فِي الْأَصْلِ حَسَنٌ وَالصَّوَابُ حُسَيْنٌ
machine translationʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad said: Thus it occurred in the original, "Ḥasan", but the correct reading is "Ḥusayn".
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What scholars said about it
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- أبو بكر ابن العربي
وقال ابن العربي أصح شيء في هذا الباب وأحسن حديث مجاهد عن جابر وفيه نظر فما أسلفناه من الأحاديث أصح منه
machine translationIbn al-ʿArabī said: The most authentic thing in this chapter and the best hadith is the hadith of Mujāhid from Jābir, but there is some question about it, for the hadiths we mentioned earlier are more authentic than it.
in مسند أحمد, p. 14817 - أبو بكر ابن العربي
إن أصح شيء في هذا الباب وأحسن حديث جابر هذا وتعقبه ابن الملقن فقال وليس بجيد منه
machine translationThe most authentic thing in this chapter and the best hadith is this hadith of Jābir. Ibn al-Mulaqqin took issue with him and said: This is not sound on his part.
in مسند أحمد, p. 14817 - العقيلي
إن حديث علي وأبي سعيد الآتي أصلح منه مع لينهما
machine translationThe hadith of ʿAlī and Abū Saʿīd, which is to come, is more suitable than it, despite the weakness (layyin) of both.
in مسند أحمد, p. 14817
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 294عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مِفْتَاحُ الْجَنَّةِ الصَّلَاةُ وَمِفْتَاحُ الصَّلَاة الطّهُور». رَوَاهُ أَحْمد
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)أَبِي يَحْيَى الْقَتَّاتِلين الحديثعن
- poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ)d. between 161 and 170 AHسُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ قَرْمٍسيء الحفظحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 213, or a year or two after itحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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