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Sunan Ibn Majah 1011

The Prayer direction

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الأَزْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَعْشَرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَا بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ قِبْلَةٌ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. [Chain 1] Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Azdī
  2. Hāshim b. al-Qāsim [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Naysābūrī
  3. ʿĀṣim b. ʿAlī
  4. Abū Maʿshar
  5. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr
  6. Abū Salamah
  7. Abū Hurayrah
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘What is between the east and the west is the Qiblah (prayer direction).’” This refers to the Qiblah for the the inhabitants of Al-Madinah. (Makkah is to the exact south of Al-Madinah.)

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautHasan Sahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0
al-TirmidhiGood-Soundin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1063hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

  • Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī

    أبو معشر له أحاديث مناكير منها هذا

    machine translationAbū Maʿshar has some objectionable (munkar) hadiths, and this is one of them.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1063
  • Sulaymān b. Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī

    لم يروه عن محمد بن عمرو إلا أبو معشر

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1063
  • Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

    ليس بالقوي

    machine translationNot strong (laysa bi-l-qawī)

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1063
  • Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī

    أبو معشر له أحاديث مناكير

    machine translationAbū Maʿshar has objectionable (munkar) hadiths.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1063

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 342«مَا بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ قِبْلَةٌ۔»
  • Misykatul Mashabih 715عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ قِبْلَةٌ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ

Other narrations of this report

Muwatta' Malik 14-9Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7511al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2265al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2266al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2267al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 741

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
    trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
    أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
    عن
  3. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr
    Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍوصدوق له أوهام
    عن
  4. Abū Maʿshar
    weak (ḍaʿīf), he grew old and his memory became confused (ikhtilāṭ)d. 170 AH
    أَبُو مَعْشَرٍضعيف ، أسن واختلط
    حدثنا
  5. ʿĀṣim b. ʿAlī
    Truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made errors (wahm)d. 220 AH, or: 221 AH
    عَاصِمُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ؛صدوق ، ربما وهم
    حدثنا
  6. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Dhuhlī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), eminentd. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 252 AH, also said: 256 AH, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād al-Naysābūrī said: 257 AH, al-Khaṭīb said: all these views are mistaken, Abū Ḥāmid b. al-Sharqī and others said: 258 AH, and this is correct
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى النَّيْسَابُورِيُّثقة حافظ جليل
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Commentaries

al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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