Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1694

Translation

✧ "The people should be led by the one most versed in the Book of Allah among them. If they are equal in recitation, then the most knowledgeable of them in the Sunnah. If they are equal in the Sunnah, then the earliest of them in migration. If they are equal in migration, then the oldest of them." This is the hadith of Abu Mu'awiyah. In the hadith of Shu'bah: "The most versed in the Book of Allah among them, and the earliest in recitation."

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  وسألت أبي عن حديث أوس بن ضمعج عن أبي مسعود عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال قد اختلفوا في متنه رواه فطر والأعمش عن إسماعيل بن رجاء عن أوس بن ضمعج عن أبي مسعود عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال يؤم القوم أقرؤهم لكتاب الله فإن كانوا في القراءة سواء فأعلمهم بالسنة ورواه شعبة والمسعودي عن إسماعيل بن رجاء لم يقولوا أعلمهم بالسنة قال أبي كان شعبة يقول إسماعيل بن رجاء كأنه شيطان من حسن حديثه وكان يهاب هذا الحديث يقول حكم من الأحكام عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لم يشاركه أحد قال أبي شعبة أحفظ من كلهم قال أبو محمد أليس قد رواه السدي عن أوس بن ضمعج قال إنما رواه الحسن بن يزيد الأصم عن السدي وهو شيخ أين كان الثوري وشعبة عن هذا الحديث وأخاف أن لا يكون محفوظا

  machine translationI asked my father about the hadith of Aws b. Ḍamʿaj, from Abū Masʿūd, from the Prophet ﷺ. He said: They differed regarding its text. Fiṭr and al-Aʿmash narrated it from Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ, from Aws b. Ḍamʿaj, from Abū Masʿūd, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: "The people are led in prayer by the one who recites the Book of God best. If they are equal in recitation, then the one most knowledgeable of the Sunnah." Shuʿbah and al-Masʿūdī narrated it from Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ and did not say "the most knowledgeable of the Sunnah". My father said: Shuʿbah used to say, "Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ is as if he were a devil because of the excellence of his hadith." He used to be wary of this hadith, saying: it is a ruling among the rulings from the Messenger of God ﷺ in which no one else shared. My father said: Shuʿbah is a better memorizer than all of them. Abū Muḥammad said: Did not al-Suddī also narrate it from Aws b. Ḍamʿaj? He said: Only al-Ḥasan b. Yazīd al-Aṣamm narrated it from al-Suddī, and he is an obscure shaykh. Where were al-Thawrī and Shuʿbah regarding this hadith? I fear that it is not preserved (maḥfūẓ). Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن خزيمة, p. 1694
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  ومداره على إسماعيل بن رجاء عن أوس بن ضمعج عنه وليسا جميعا من شرط البخاري وقد نقل ابن أبي حاتم في العلل عن أبيه أن شعبة كان يتوقف في صحة هذا الحديث ولكن هو في الجملة يصلح للاحتجاج به عند البخاري

  machine translationIts transmission revolves around Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ, from Aws b. Ḍamʿaj, from him. Neither of the two meets the condition of al-Bukhārī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim reported in al-ʿIlal from his father that Shuʿbah used to withhold judgement on the authenticity of this hadith. However, in general it is suitable to be used as evidence according to al-Bukhārī. Report a problem

  in صحيح ابن خزيمة, p. 1694

Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih Ibnu Khuzaimah 1696حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ بِنَحْوِهِ:،:::

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 636

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Masʿūd al-Badrī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 40 AH, or before it or after it, or: 41 AH, or: 42 AH
   أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ الْبَدْرِيُّصحابي جليل
   عن
2. 2
   Aws b. Ḍamʿaj

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 73 AH, or 74 AH
   أَوْسِ بْنِ ضَمْعَجٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Ismāʿīl b. Rajāʾ al-Zubaydī

   Trustworthy (thiqah); al-Azdī spoke against him without proofd. between 111 and 120 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ رَجَاءٍثقة ، تكلم فيه الأزدي بلا حجة
   عن
4. 4
   Fiṭr

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of Shiʿism (rumiya bi-l-tashayyuʿ)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 153 AH, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AH
   فِطْرُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ .صدوق ، رمي بالتشيع
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌ .ثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 244 AH
   أَبُو عَمَّارٍثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Khuzaymah

   d. 311 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ

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