Sahih Ibn Hibban 2155
✧ The obligation of Imam's observance
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
«أَتِمُّوا الصَّفَّ الْمُقَدَّمَ فَإِنْ كَانَ نُقْصَانٌ فَلْيَكُنْ فِي الْمُؤَخَّرِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná
- Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná
- Ibn Abū ʿAdī
- Saʿīd
- Qatādah
- Anas
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ “Complete the front row; if there is any deficiency, let it be in the back row.”
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sound | hadithunlocked |
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What scholars said about it
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- M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 2160 - Maghlaṭay
ذكر الخلال أن أحمد بن حنبل لما ذكر له هذا الحديث أعجبه واستحسنه من حديث الأنصاري
machine translationAl-Khallāl mentioned that when this hadith was mentioned to Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, he was pleased with it and considered it good, as a hadith of al-Anṣārī.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 2160
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AHسَعِيدٍثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 192 AH, or 194 AHابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 252 AH, also said: 250 AH, also said: 251 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ ج٥ / ص٥٢٩الْمُثَنَّىثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّىأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.