Sunan Ibn Majah 150
The Virtues of Bilal
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا زَائِدَةُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِ عَنْ زِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ
كَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَظْهَرَ إِسْلاَمَهُ سَبْعَةٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعَمَّارٌ وَأُمُّهُ سُمَيَّةُ وَصُهَيْبٌ وَبِلاَلٌ وَالْمِقْدَادُ فَأَمَّا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَمَنَعَهُ اللَّهُ بِعَمِّهِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَأَمَّا أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَمَنَعَهُ اللَّهُ بِقَوْمِهِ وَأَمَّا سَائِرُهُمْ فَأَخَذَهُمُ الْمُشْرِكُونَ وَأَلْبَسُوهُمْ أَدْرَاعَ الْحَدِيدِ وَصَهَرُوهُمْ فِي الشَّمْسِ فَمَا مِنْهُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلاَّ وَقَدْ وَاتَاهُمْ عَلَى مَا أَرَادُوا إِلاَّ بِلاَلاً فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ هَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ نَفْسُهُ فِي اللَّهِ وَهَانَ عَلَى قَوْمِهِ فَأَخَذُوهُ فَأَعْطَوْهُ الْوِلْدَانَ فَجَعَلُوا يَطُوفُونَ بِهِ فِي شِعَابِ مَكَّةَ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ أَحَدٌ أَحَدٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Saʿīd al-Dārimī
- Yaḥyá b. Abū Bukayr
- Zāʾidah b. Qudāmah
- ʿĀṣim b. Abū al-Najūd
- Zir b. Ḥubaysh
- ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
"The first people to declare their Islam publicly were seven: The Messenger of Allah, Abu Bakr, 'Ammar and his mother Sumayyah, Suhaib, Bilal and Miqdad. With regard to the Messenger of Allah, Allah protected him through his paternal uncle Abu Talib. With regard to Abu Bakr, Allah protected him through his people. As for the rest, the idolators seized them and made them wear coats of chain-mail and exposed them to the intense heat of the sun. There was none of them who did not do what they wanted them to do, except for Bilal. He did not care what happened to him for the sake of Allah, and his people did not care what happened to him. Then they gave him to the children who took him around in the streets of Makkah while he was saying, 'Ahad, Ahad (One, One).'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Goodin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 122Another source records this grader as “Hasan Sahih” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناده ثقات
machine translationIts chain is made up of trustworthy (thiqāt) narrators.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 156 - Dāraquṭnī
إنه وهم وإنما رواه زائدة عن منصور عن مجاهد قوله
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 156
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 3832Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33000Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33001Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37742Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37743Musnad al-Bazzar 1857
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 81 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AHزِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍثقة جليلعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِصدوق له أوهامعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AHزَائِدَةُ بْنُ قُدَامَةَثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, also said 209 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍثقة .حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 253 AH. Ibn Manjawayh said: 260 AH, or shortly before or after it. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 265 AH, or shortly before or after itأَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيُّثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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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