Sahih Ibn Hibban 4663
✧ The Virtue of Testimony
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنَا حَبَّانُ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ أَخْبَرَنَا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو أَنَّ أَبَا الْمُثَنَّى الْمُلَيْكِيَّ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُتْبَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ السُّلَمِيِّ وَكَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
«الْقَتْلَى ثَلَاثَةٌ رَجُلٌ مُؤْمِنٌ جَاهَدَ بِنَفْسِهِ وَمَالِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى إِذَا لَقِيَ الْعَدُوَّ قَاتَلَهُمْ حَتَّى يُقْتَلَ فَذَلِكَ الشَّهِيدُ الْمُمْتَحَنُ فِي خَيْمَةِ اللَّهِ تَحْتَ عَرْشِهِ وَلَا يَفْضُلُهُ النَّبِيُّونَ إِلَّا بِفَضْلِ دَرَجَةِ النُّبُوَّةِ وَرَجُلٌ مُؤْمِنٌ قَرَفَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ وَالْخَطَايَا جَاهَدَ بِنَفْسِهِ وَمَالِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى إِذَا لَقِيَ الْعَدُوَّ قَاتَلَ حَتَّى قُتِلَ فَتِلْكَ مَصْمَصَةٌ مَحَتْ ذُنُوبَهُ وَخَطَايَاهُ إِنَّ السَّيْفَ مَحَّاءٌ لِلْخَطَايَا وَأُدْخِلَ مِنْ أَيِّ أَبْوَابِ الْجَنَّةِ شَاءَ فَإِنَّ لَهَا ثَمَانِيَةَ أَبْوَابٍ وَلِجَهَنَّمَ سَبْعَةُ أَبْوَابٍ وَبَعْضُهَا أَفْضَلُ مِنْ بَعْضٍ وَرَجُلٌ مُنَافِقٌ جَاهَدَ بِنَفْسِهِ وَمَالِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى إِذَا لَقِيَ الْعَدُوَّ قَاتَلَ حَتَّى قُتِلَ فَذَلِكَ فِي النَّارِ إِنَّ السَّيْفَ لَا يَمْحُو النِّفَاقَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
- Ḥabbān
- ʿAbdullāh
- Ṣafwān b. ʿAmr
- Abū al-Muthanná al-Mulaykī
- ʿUtbah b. ʿAbd al-Sulamī and Kān Min Aṣḥāb al-Nabī ﷺ Yuḥaddith
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The slain are of three types: a believing man who strives with his soul and wealth in the path of Allah, and when he meets the enemy he fights them until he is killed—that is the tested martyr in the tent of Allah beneath His Throne, and the prophets do not surpass him except by the rank of prophethood. A believing man who has brought sins and errors upon himself, who strives with his soul and wealth in the path of Allah, and when he meets the enemy he fights until he is killed—that is a purification that wipes away his sins and errors. Indeed the sword erases errors, and he will be admitted from whichever of the gates of Paradise he wishes, for it has eight gates, and Hell has seven gates, and some are better than others. And a hypocritical man who strives with his soul and wealth in the path of Allah, and when he meets the enemy he fights until he is killed—that one is in the Fire. Indeed the sword does not erase hypocrisy.
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
وصححه
machine translationAnd he graded it authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 4668 - M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 4668
Narrators
- Famous Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 87 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AHعُتْبَةُ بْنُ عَبْدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّصحابي شهيرسمع
- deemed trustworthy by: al-ʿIjlīأَبَا الْمُثَنَّى الْمُلَيْكِيَّوثقه : العجليحدثه
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 155 AH, or 158 AH, from Baqiyyah: 148 AH, and it is a mistakeصَفْوَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍوثقةأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 231 AH or 232 AH or 233 AHحِبَّانُثقةحدثنا
- d. 303 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَأخبرنا
- 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.