Sunan Ibn Majah 1566

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “If one of you were to sit on a live coal that burns him, that would be better for him than if he were to sit on a grave.”

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 1699وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ فَتُحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ فَتَخْلُصَ إِلَى جِلْدِهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يجلس على قبر». رَو
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 2044لأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ حَتَّى تَحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ
• Shahih Muslim 971a«لَأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ، فَتُحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ، فَتَخْلُصَ إِلَى جِلْدِهِ، خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ»
• Sunan Abu Dawud 3228لأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ فَتَحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ حَتَّى تَخْلُصَ إِلَى جِلْدِهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 972bJami' at-Tirmidhi 1050Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1051Musnad Ahmad 8108Musnad Ahmad 9732

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Dhakwān al-Sammān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq); his memory deteriorated at the end of his lifed. 138 AH, or: 140 AH, or: 141 AH, in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AH
   سُهَيْلٍصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abī Ḥāzim

   truthful (ṣadūq), juristd. 184 AH, also said: 180 AH, also said: 182 AH
   عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍصدوق ، فقيه
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Suwayd b. Saʿīd

   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 AH
   سُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍصدوق في نفسه ، إلا أنه عمي فصار يتلقن ما ليس من حديثه
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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