Sunan Ibn Majah 1476
What was narrated concerning the prohibition of making public death announcements
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حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ رَافِعٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ بِلاَلِ بْنِ يَحْيَى قَالَ
كَانَ حُذَيْفَةُ إِذَا مَاتَ لَهُ الْمَيِّتُ قَالَ لاَ تُؤْذِنُوا بِهِ أَحَدًا إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يَكُونَ نَعْيًا إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِأُذُنَىَّ هَاتَيْنِ يَنْهَى عَنِ النَّعْىِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. Rāfiʿ
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak
- Ḥabīb b. Sulaym
- Bilāl b. Yaḥyá
“If one of the members of his family died, Hudhaifah would say: ‘Do not inform anyone of it, for I am afraid that that would be a public death announcement. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with these two ears of mine forbidding making public death announcements.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| al-Albani | Goodin صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 2/13 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسناد حسن
machine translationIts chain of transmission (isnād) is good (ḥasan).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1540 - أبو علي الطوسي كردوش
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1540
Same hadith, other wordings
- Bulughul Maram 556{ أَنَّ اَلنَّبِيَّ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -كَانَ يَنْهَى عَنِ اَلنَّعْيِ }
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10004al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3065Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11316Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11320Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6087al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 951
Narrators
- An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an errorحُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقينفي حكم العنعنة
- truthful (ṣadūq)بِلَالِ بْنِ يَحْيَىصدوقعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)حَبِيبِ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍمقبولعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 237 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ رَافِعٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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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