Sunan Ibn Majah 1557
What was narrated concerning the ditch-grave
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حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ حَدَّثَنِي حُمَيْدٌ الطَّوِيلُ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ
لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ كَانَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَلْحَدُ وَآخَرُ يَضْرَحُ فَقَالُوا نَسْتَخِيرُ رَبَّنَا وَنَبْعَثُ إِلَيْهِمَا فَأَيُّهُمَا سَبَقَ تَرَكْنَاهُ فَأُرْسِلَ إِلَيْهِمَا فَسَبَقَ صَاحِبُ اللَّحْدِ فَلَحَدُوا لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān
- Hāshim b. al-Qāsim
- Mubārak b. Faḍālah
- Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl
- Anas b. Mālik
“When the Prophet ﷺ died, there was a man in Al-Madinah who used to make a niche in the grave and another who used to dig graves without a niche. They said: ‘Let us pray Istikharah to our Lord and call for them both, and whichever of them comes first, we will let him do it.’ So they were both sent for, and the one who used to make the niche-grave came first, so they made a niche-grave for the Prophet ﷺ.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Good Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1621 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
الإسناد صحيح
machine translationThe chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1621 - ابن الملقن
رجاله ثقات إلا مبارك بن فضالة فإن النسائي ضعفه وقال عفان ثقة من النساك وكان وكان وقال أبو زرعة إذا قال ثنا فهو ثقة قلت قد صرح بالتحديث في هذا الحديث فقال ثنا حميد
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1621
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 1628Musnad Ahmad 2661al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8856Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11751Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6434Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 6435
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a concealer of defects in transmission (mudallis); Zāʾidah faulted him for involving himself in some of the affairs of the rulers.d. at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, the year 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH.حُمَيْدٌ الطَّوِيلُثقة مدلس ، وعابه زائدة لدخوله في شيء من أمر الأمراء.حدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), practises concealment (tadlīs) including tadlīs al-taswiyahd. 164 AH, or 165 AH, or 166 AHمُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَصدوق يدلس ويسويحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AHهَاشِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. al-Bukhārī and others said: 239 AH. Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad b. Ḥamdawayh al-Marwazī said: 249 AHمَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَثقةحدثنا
- 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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