Sunan Ibn Majah 211
The virtue of one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ وَسُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ شُعْبَةُ
خَيْرُكُمْ وَقَالَ سُفْيَانُ أَفْضَلُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān
- Shuʿbah and Sufyān
- ʿAlqamah b. Marthad
- Saʿd b. ʿUbaydah
- Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
- Shuʿbah
The Messenger of Allah said: (According to one of the narrators) Shu'bah (he) said: 'The best of you' (and according to) Sufyan (he) said: "The most excellent of you is the one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2908Musnad Ahmad 412al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10354al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3066al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8003
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 74 AH, Ibn Ḥajar reported his death from Ibn Qāniʿ in the year 85 AH, also said: 70 AH, also said: 72 AH, also said: 73 AH, also said 92 AH, ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Qāniʿ said, as al-Dhahabī reported from him: 105 AH, and he said: it is an error, not to be followedأَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the governorship of ʿUmar b. Hubayrah over Iraq, between 101 AH and 110 AHسَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AHعَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍثقةعن
- 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 AHوَسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانُثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- 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
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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