Sunan Ibn Majah 1563
What was narrated concerning the prohibition of building over graves, plastering over them and writing on them
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَى عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ يُكْتَبَ عَلَى الْقَبْرِ شَىْءٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd
- Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth
- Ibn Jurayj
- Sulaymān b. Mūsá
- Jābir
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade writing anything on graves.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | SoundAnother source records this grader as “Hasan” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
سليمان بن موسى لم يسمع من جابر بن عبد الله فهو منقطع
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1627 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
الإسناد صحيح
machine translationThe chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1627
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 14647Musnad Ahmad 26555al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5989Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 11862al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6866
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), jurist, there is some softness in his hadith, and his mind became confused shortly before his deathd. 115 AH, or 119 AHسُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَىصدوق , فقيه , في حديثه بعض لين , وخولط قبل موته بقليلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AHابْنِ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), whose memory changed slightly toward the end of his lifed. 194 AH, also said: 195 AH, or 196 AHحَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍثقة فقيه ، تغير حفظه قليلا في الآخرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 256 AH, or 257 AH, in the book "Zahrat al-Mutaʿallimīn": died (223 AH). Mughulṭāy said: "I have not seen it from anyone else, so it should be examined".عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقةحدثنا
- 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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