Sunan Ibn Majah 1245
What was narrated concerning killing snakes and scorpions during the Prayer
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ جَوْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَمَرَ بِقَتْلِ الأَسْوَدَيْنِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ الْعَقْرَبِ وَالْحَيَّةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- Maʿmar
- Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
- Ḍamḍam b. Jaws
- Abū Hurayrah
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet ﷺ commanded killing the two black ones during prayer; the scorpion and the snake.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
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- ابن الملقن
هذا الحديث صحيح
machine translationThis hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1302 - Dāraquṭnī
وخالفه معمر بن راشد وهشام الدستوائي وعلي بن المبارك رووه عن يحيى بن أبي كثير عن ضمضم بن جوس عن أبي هريرة وهو الصواب
machine translationMaʿmar b. Rāshid, Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī and ʿAlī b. al-Mubārak contradicted him; they narrated it from Yaḥyā b. Abī Kathīr, from Ḍamḍam b. Jawš, from Abū Hurayrah, and this is the correct version.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1302
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 921Sunan Ibn Majah 1247Musnad Ahmad 10154Musnad Ahmad 7379Sahih Ibn Hibban 2351Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 989
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)d. between 101 and 110 AHضَمْضَمِ بْنِ جَوْسٍثقةعن
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AHيَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٍثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 240 AHوَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِصدوقحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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