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Sunan Ibn Majah 108

The Virtue of 'Umar (ra)

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ يَحْيَى بْنُ خَلَفٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الأَعْلَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ عَنْ غُضَيْفِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ

إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَضَعَ الْحَقَّ عَلَى لِسَانِ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ بِهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Salamah Yaḥyá b. Khalaf
  2. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá
  3. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
  4. Makḥūl
  5. Ghuḍayf b. al-Ḥārith
  6. Abū Dhar
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"I heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'Allah has placed the truth on the tongue of 'Umar, and he speaks with that (truth).'"

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  • Dāraquṭnī

    ومحمد بن إسحاق أقام إسناده عن مكحول

    machine translationAnd Muḥammad b. Isḥāq established its chain of transmission from Makḥūl.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 114

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
    أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
    عن
  2. His status as a Companion is disputed (mukhtalaf fī ṣuḥbatihi)d. 60-odd AH
    غُضَيْفِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِمختلف في صحبته
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), frequently narrating with omission of the Companion (kathīr al-irsāl), well-known (mashhūr)d. 112 AH, or: 113 AH, or: 114 AH, or: 116 AH, Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus said: it is said 118 AH
    مَكْحُولٍثقة فقيه ، كثير الإرسال ، مشهور
    عن
  4. Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
    عن
  5. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 184 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 189 AH
    عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَىثقة
    حدثنا
  6. truthful (ṣadūq)d. 242 AH
    أَبُو سَلَمَةَ يَحْيَى بْنُ خَلَفٍصدوق
    حدثنا
  7. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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