Sunan Ibn Majah 1091

Translation

“Whoever performs ablution on Friday, it is well and good for him, and he has done what is obligatory for him. But whoever takes a bath, bath is better.”

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  فأما الحديث فعول على المعارضة به كثير ووجه الدلالة منه قوله فالغسل أفضل فإنه يقتضي اشتراك الوضوء والغسل في أصل الفضل فيستلزم إجزاء الوضوء ولهذا الحديث طرق أشهرها وأقواها رواية الحسن عن سمرة أخرجها أصحاب السنن الثلاثة وابن خزيمة وابن حبان وله علتان إحداهما عنعنة الحسن والأخرى أنه اختلف عليه فيه وأخرجه ابن ماجه عن أنس والطبراني عن عبد الرحمن بن سمرة والبزار عن أبي سعيد وابن عدي عن جابر وكلها ضعيفة

  machine translationAs for the hadith, many have relied on it in opposition [to the other view]. The point of evidence in it is his saying, "the ghusl is better (afḍal)", for this implies that wuḍūʾ and ghusl share in the basic merit, and so it necessitates that wuḍūʾ suffices. This hadith has several routes, the best known and strongest of which is the narration of al-Ḥasan from Samurah, which was recorded by the authors of the three Sunan, Ibn Khuzaymah and Ibn Ḥibbān. It has two defects (ʿillah): one is the ʿanʿanah of al-Ḥasan, and the other is that there is disagreement about it from him. Ibn Mājah recorded it from Anas, al-Ṭabarānī from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Samurah, al-Bazzār from Abū Saʿīd, and Ibn ʿAdī from Jābir, and all of them are weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1143
• أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

  إسناد ضعيف

  machine translationThe chain of transmission is weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1143
• الزيلعى

  وهذا سند ضعيف

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1143
• Ibn Rajab

  فيه يزيد الرقاشي وهو ضعيف الحديث

  machine translationIn it is Yazīd al-Raqāshī, and he is weak in hadith (ḍaʿīf al-ḥadīth). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1143

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 20174Musnad Ahmad 20519al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6842al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6951al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8280Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 5063

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Yazīd b. Abān al-Raqāshī

   ascetic (zāhid), weak (ḍaʿīf)d. before 120 AH
   يَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّزاهد ، ضعيف
   عن
3. 3
   Ismāʿīl b. Muslim

   he was a jurist, weak in hadith (ḍaʿīf al-ḥadīth)
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ الْمَكِّيُّكان فقيها ، ضعيف الحديث
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Naṣr b. ʿAlī

   Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt); he was asked to take the judgeship (qaḍāʾ) but declinedd. 250 AH, also said: 251 AH
   نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْجَهْضَمِيُّثقة ثبت ، طلب للقضاء فامتنع
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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.