Sunan Ibn Majah 149
The Virtue of Salman, Abu Dharr, and Miqdad
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُوسَى وَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ عَنْ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ الإِيَادِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَمَرَنِي بِحُبِّ أَرْبَعَةٍ وَأَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّهُ يُحِبُّهُمْ قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَنْ هُمْ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ مِنْهُمْ يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ ثَلاَثًا وَأَبُو ذَرٍّ وَسَلْمَانُ وَالْمِقْدَادُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl b. Mūsá and Sūwayd b. Saʿīd
- Sharīk
- Abū Rabīʿah al-Iyādī
- Ibn Buraydah
- his father
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Allah has commanded me to love four people, and He told me that He also loves them.' He was asked: 'O Messenger of Allah, who are they?' He said: ''Ali is one of them,' and he said that three times, 'and Abu Dharr, Salman and Miqdad.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | WeakAnother source records this grader as “Sahih” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 29 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه عبد النور بن عبد الله كذبه شعبة ووثقه ابن حبان
machine translationIn it is ʿAbd al-Nūr b. ʿAbdillāh, whom Shuʿbah declared a liar (kadhdhabahu) and Ibn Ḥibbān considered trustworthy (wathaqahu).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 155 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
سنده حسن
machine translationIts chain is good (ḥasan).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 155
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3718Musnad Ahmad 22968al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7575Musnad al-Bazzar 4401al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4649al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4772
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before Badrd. 62 AH, or 63 AHبُرَيْدَة بْن الْحُصَيْب الْأَسْلَمِيّصحابي ، أسلم قبل بدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AHابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَثقةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ الْإِيَادِيِّمقبولعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AHشَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدعحدثنا
- Truthful in himself (ṣadūq), except that he went blind and would accept prompting of what was not from his hadith.d. 240 AH, or: 239 AHوَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍصدوق في نفسه ، إلا أنه عمي فصار يتلقن ما ليس من حديثهحدثنا
- 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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