Sunan Ibn Majah 160

Translation

"Jibril or an angel came to the Prophet and said: 'How do you regard those among you who were present at Badr?' He said: 'They are the best among us.' He said: 'We think the same (of the angels who were present at Badr), they are the best of the angels.'"

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What scholars said about it

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• أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

  إن كان محفوظا فيجوز أن يكون ليحيى شيخان فإن الجميع ثقات

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 166

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Ibn Hibban 7224al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 4457al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 131Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33012Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37881Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37887

Narrators

1. 1
   Rāfiʿ b. Khadīj al-Anṣārī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 59 AH, also said: after 50 AH to 60 AH
   رَافِع بْن خَدِيج الأَنْصَارِيّصحابي جليل
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbāyah b. Rifāʿah al-Zuraqī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَبَايَةَ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Ḥayyān

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 145 AH, also said: 143 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍثقة عابد
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Kurayb

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
   وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

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

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