Sunan Ibn Majah 120
The Virtue of ʿAli b. Abi Talib (ra)
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الرَّازِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى أَنْبَأَنَا الْعَلاَءُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ عَنِ الْمِنْهَالِ عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ
أَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَأَخُو رَسُولِهِ ﷺ وَأَنَا الصِّدِّيقُ الأَكْبَرُ لاَ يَقُولُهَا بَعْدِي إِلاَّ كَذَّابٌ صَلَّيْتُ قَبْلَ النَّاسِ لِسَبْعِ سِنِينَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Rāzī
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá
- al-ʿAlāʾ b. Ṣāliḥ
- al-Minhāl
- ʿAbbād b. ʿAbdullāh
- ʿAlī
"'Ali said: 'I am the slave of Allah and the brother of His Messenger. I am the greatest teller of the truth (Siddiq Akbar), and no one will say this after me except a liar. I prayed seven years before the people."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Batil | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Batil | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Dhahabi
هذا كأنه كذب على علي
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 126 - أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
هذا إسناد صحيح رجاله ثقات
machine translationThis chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 126 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صحيح على شرط الشيخين
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ), meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 126
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7433Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32743Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32748Musnad al-Tayalisi 184al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8357al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4687
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةقال
- weak (ḍaʿīf)عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِضعيفعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. between 111 and 120 AHالْمِنْهَالِصدوق ربما وهمعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. between 151 and 160 AHالْعَلَاءُ بْنُ صَالِحٍصدوق له أوهامأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he leaned towards Shiism (kāna yatashayyaʿ).d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة ، كان يتشيعحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 241 AH and 250 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الرَّازِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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