Sunan Ibn Majah 109
The Virtues of 'Uthman (ra)
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَرْوَانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عُثْمَانُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ رَفِيقٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَرَفِيقِي فِيهَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Marwān Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī
- Abū ʿUthmān b. Khālid
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Zinād
- his father
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Messenger of Allah said: "Every Prophet will have a friend in Paradise, and my friend there will be 'Uthman bin 'Affan."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 22 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناده ضعيف فيه عثمان بن خالد وهو ضعيف باتفاقهم
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 115 - al-Tirmidhi
غريب ليس إسناده بالقوي وهو منقطع
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 115
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3698Musnad al-Bazzar 407Musnad al-Bazzar 972Musnad Abi Ya'la 664
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبِيهِثقة ، فقيهعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory changed when he came to Baghdad, and he was a jurist (faqīh)d. 174 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي الزِّنَادِصدوق ، تغير حفظه لما قدم بغداد ، وكان فقيهاعن
- abandoned in hadith (matrūk al-ḥadīth)d. between 201 AH and 211 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ خَالِدٍمتروك الحديثحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. end of 240 AH, or the beginning of the year 241 AHأَبُو مَرْوَانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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