Sunan Ibn Majah 217
The virtue of one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it
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حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الأَوْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنِ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي أَحْمَدَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
تَعَلَّمُوا الْقُرْآنَ وَاقْرَءُوهُ وَارْقُدُوا فَإِنَّ مَثَلَ الْقُرْآنِ وَمَنْ تَعَلَّمَهُ فَقَامَ بِهِ كَمَثَلِ جِرَابٍ مَحْشُوٍّ مِسْكًا يَفُوحُ رِيحُهُ كُلَّ مَكَانٍ وَمَثَلُ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَهُ فَرَقَدَ وَهُوَ فِي جَوْفِهِ كَمَثَلِ جِرَابٍ أُوكِيَ عَلَى مِسْكٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿAbdullāh al-Awdī
- Abū Usāmah
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar
- al-Maqburī
- ʿAṭāʾ a freed slave of Abū Aḥmad
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Learn the Qur'an, recite it and go to bed, for the likeness of the Qur'an and the one who learns it and acts upon it is that of a sack filled with musk, which spreads its fragrance everywhere. And the likeness of one who learns it then goes to bed with it in his heart is that of a sack that is tied up from which no fragrance comes out.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī
إسحاق بن عبد الواحد لا أعرفه وقد رواه غير عبد الحميد بن جعفر فأرسله والمشهور مرسل
machine translationIsḥāq b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid: I do not know him. Someone other than ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar has narrated it and transmitted it as a mursal report, and the well-known version is mursal.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 223 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
الصحيح ما رواه الليث
machine translationThe sound version is what al-Layth narrated.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 223 - Dāraquṭnī
اختلف فيه على المقبري فرواه عمر بن طلحة بن عمرو بن علقمة ابن أخي محمد بن عمرو بن علقمة عن المقبري عن أبي هريرة وخالفه عبد الحميد بن جعفر فرواه عن المقبري عن عطاء مولى أبي أحمد عن أبي هريرة ورواه الليث بن سعد عن المقبري عن عطاء مولى أبي أحمد مرسلا لم يذكر أبا هريرة وقول الليث أشبه بالصواب حدثنا النيسابوري ثنا محمد بن إسحاق الصاغاني قال سمعت يحيى بن معين يقول أثبت الناس في سعيد الليث بن سعد
machine translationThere was disagreement about it on the authority of al-Maqburī. ʿUmar b. Ṭalḥah b. ʿAmr b. ʿAlqamah, the nephew of Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAlqamah, narrated it from al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar contradicted him and narrated it from al-Maqburī, from ʿAṭāʾ, the freed slave of Abū Aḥmad, from Abū Hurayrah. And al-Layth b. Saʿd narrated it from al-Maqburī, from ʿAṭāʾ, the freed slave of Abū Aḥmad, as a mursal report, without mentioning Abū Hurayrah. The statement of al-Layth is closer to being correct. Al-Naysābūrī narrated to us: Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ṣāghānī narrated to us, he said: I heard Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn say: The most reliable of people regarding Saʿīd is al-Layth b. Saʿd.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 223
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2143وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «تَعَلَّمُوا الْقُرْآنَ فَاقْرَءُوهُ فَإِن مثل الْقُرْآن لمن تعلم وَقَامَ بِهِ كَمثل جراب محشو مسكا يفوح رِيحُهُ كُلَّ مَكَانٍ وَمَثَلُ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَهُ
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2876Sahih Ibn Hibban 2126Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1697Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2791al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1622
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)عَطَاءٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي أَحْمَدَمقبولعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AHالْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and he sometimes erred (wahima)d. 153 AHعَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍصدوق رمي بالقدر ، وربما وهمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AHأَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 250 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَوْدِيُّثقةحدثنا
- 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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