Sunan Ibn Majah 1781
The reward for Iʿtikaf
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حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ مُوسَى الْبُخَارِيُّ عَنْ عَبِيدَةَ الْعَمِّيِّ عَنْ فَرْقَدٍ السَّبَخِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ فِي الْمُعْتَكِفِ هُوَ يَعْكِفُ الذُّنُوبَ وَيُجْرَى لَهُ مِنَ الْحَسَنَاتِ كَعَامِلِ الْحَسَنَاتِ كُلِّهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbd al-Karīm
- Muḥammad b. Umayyah
- ʿĪsá b. Mūsá al-Bukhārī
- ʿAbīdah al-ʿAmmī
- Farqad al-Sabakhī
- Saʿīd b. Jubayr
- Ibn ʿAbbās
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said concerning the person observing I’tikaf. “He is refraining from sin and he will be given a reward like that of one who does all kinds of good deeds.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 352 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناده ضعيف لضعف فرقد بن يعقوب السبخي البصري الحائك
machine translationIts chain of transmission is weak (ḍaʿīf) because of the weakness of Farqad b. Yaʿqūb al-Sabakhī al-Baṣrī, the weaver.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1850 - ابن الملقن
وفرقد هذا وثقه ابن معين وضعفه أحمد والدارقطني
machine translationThis Farqad was declared trustworthy (thiqah) by Ibn Maʿīn, and declared weak (ḍaʿīf) by Aḥmad and al-Dāraquṭnī.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1850
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2108وَعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ فِي الْمُعْتَكَفِ: «هُوَ يَعْتَكِفُ الذُّنُوبَ وَيُجْرَى لَهُ مِنَ الْحَسَنَاتِ كَعَامِلِ الْحَسَنَات كلهَا». رَوَاهُ ابْن مَاجَه
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), devout worshipper, but he is soft in hadith (layyin al-ḥadīth), makes many mistakesd. 131 AHفَرْقَدٍ السَّبَخِيِّصدوق عابد ، لكنه لين الحديث كثير الخطأعن
- unknown in status (majhūl al-ḥāl)d. 160 AHعُبَيْدَةَ الْعَمِّيِّمجهول الحالعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), perhaps made mistakes and perhaps practised concealment (tadlīs), narrated much from abandoned narratorsd. 185 AH, or, 186 AH, or 187 AHعِيسَى بْنُ مُوسَى الْبُخَارِيُّصدوق ربما أخطأ وربما دلس ، مكثر من التحديث عن المتروكينحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 226 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَصدوقحدثنا
- An imam, ḥāfiẓ, trustworthy (thiqah), well-knownd. 264 AH or 268 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِإمام حافظ ، ثقة مشهورحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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