Sunan Ibn Majah 2138
Encouragement To Earn A Living
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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ بَحِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِيكَرِبَ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
مَا كَسَبَ الرَّجُلُ كَسْبًا أَطْيَبَ مِنْ عَمَلِ يَدِهِ وَمَا أَنْفَقَ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ وَأَهْلِهِ وَوَلَدِهِ وَخَادِمِهِ فَهُوَ صَدَقَةٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hishām b. ʿAmmār
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh
- Baḥīr b. Saʿd
- Khālid b. Maʿdān
- al-Miqdām b. Maʿdīkarib al-Zubaydī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"No man earns anything better than that which he earns with his own hands, and what a man spends on himself, his wife, his child and his servant, then it is charity."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 1752 | 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
هذا إسناد حسن إسماعيل بن عياش مختلف فيه
machine translationThis chain is good (ḥasan). Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh is disputed.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2217
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20012al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20013al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 4413al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7924al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 10508al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2159
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 87 AH, also said: 83 AH, also said: 86 AH, also said: 88 AHالْمِقْدَام بْن مَعْدِي كَرِب الْكِنْدِيّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), who often narrated with omission of the Companion or intermediary (yursilu kathīran).d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, also said: 106 AH, or: 108 AHخَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَثقة عابد ، يرسل كثيرا.عن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 141 and 150 AHبَحِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq) in his narration from the people of his own land, but confused (mukhaliṭ) in his narration from othersd. 181 AH, or 182 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍصدوق في روايته عن أهل بلده ، مخلط في غيرهمحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصححدثنا
- 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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