Sunan Ibn Majah 2198

Translation

a man from among the Ansar came to the Prophet ﷺ and begged from him. He said, "Do you have anything in your house?" He said: "Yes, a blanket, part of which we cover ourselves with and part we spread beneath us, and a bowl from which we drink water." He said: "Givethem to me." So he brought them to him, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took them in his hand and said, "Who will by these two things?" A man said: "I will by them for one Dirham." He said: "Who will offer more than a Dirham?" two or three times. A man said: "I will buy them for two Dirham." So he gave them to him and took the two Dirham, which he gave to the Ansari and said: "Buy food with one of them and give it to your family, and buy an axe with the other and bring it to me." So he did that, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took it and fixed a handle to it, and said: "Go and gather firewood, and I do not want to see you for fifteen days." So he went and gathered firewood and sold it, then he came back, and he had earned ten Dirham. (The Prophet ﷺ) said: "Buy food with some of it and clothes with some." Then he said: "This is better for you than coming with begging (appearing) as a spot on your face on the Day of Resurrection. Begging is only appropriate for one who is extremely poor or who is in severe debt, or one who must pay painful blood money.”[1]

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• al-Bukhari

  ونقل عن البخاري أنه قال لم يصح حديثه

  machine translationIt was reported from al-Bukhārī that he said: His ḥadīth is not authentic. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2279
• ابن الملقن

  قال عبد الحق في أحكامه وأبو بكر راويه عن أنس لم أجد أحدا ينسبه قلت قد قال الترمذي في جامعه إنه عبد الله الحنفي قال ابن القطان وعبد الله لا أعرف أحدا نقل عدالته وهو علة الخبر ولذلك حسنه الترمذي وتبع الذهبي ابن القطان فقال في المغني إنه تابعي مجهول نعم ذكره ابن عبد البر في كناه ولم ينسبه ونقل عن البخاري أنه قال لم يصح حديثه

  machine translationʿAbd al-Ḥaqq said in his Aḥkām: As for Abū Bakr, who narrates it from Anas, I have not found anyone who identifies his lineage. I say: al-Tirmidhī said in his Jāmiʿ that he is ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥanafī. Ibn al-Qaṭṭān said: As for ʿAbdullāh, I do not know anyone who reported his reliability (ʿadālah), and this is the defect of the report, and for that reason al-Tirmidhī graded it good (ḥasan). Al-Dhahabī followed Ibn al-Qaṭṭān and said in al-Mughnī that he is an unknown (majhūl) Follower (tābiʿī). Yes, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr mentioned him in his work on kunyas (al-Kunā) but did not identify his lineage, and he reported from al-Bukhārī that he said: His ḥadīth is not authentic. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2279
• Ibn al-Qaṭṭān

  الحديث معلول بأبي بكر الحنفي فإني لا أعرف أحدا نقل عدالته فهو مجهول الحال وإنما حسن الترمذي حديثه على عادته في قبول المساتير وقد روى عنه جماعة ليسوا من مشاهير أهل العلم وهم عبد الرحمن وعبيد الله ابنا شميط وعمهما الأخضر بن عجلان والأخضر وابن أخيه عبيد الله ثقتان وأما عبد الرحمن فلا يعرف حاله

  machine translationThe ḥadīth is defective (maʿlūl) because of Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī, for I do not know anyone who reported his reliability (ʿadālah), so he is of unknown condition (majhūl al-ḥāl). Al-Tirmidhī graded his ḥadīth good (ḥasan) only in keeping with his habit of accepting those whose status is concealed (mastūr). A group narrated from him who are not among the famous scholars: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and ʿUbaydullāh, the two sons of Shumayṭ, and their paternal uncle al-Akhḍar b. ʿAjlān. Al-Akhḍar and his nephew ʿUbaydullāh are trustworthy (thiqah), but as for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, his condition is not known. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2279
• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  ضعفه الأزدي بالأخضر بن عجلان في سنده

  machine translational-Azdī declared it weak (ḍaʿīf) because of al-Akhḍar b. ʿAjlān in its chain. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2279

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 12278Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7206Sunan al-Daraqutni 1997Sunan al-Daraqutni 1998

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī

   his status is not known.
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيُّلا يعرف حاله .
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Al-Akhḍar b. ʿAjlān

   truthful (ṣadūq)
   الْأَخْضَرُ بْنُ عَجْلَانَصدوق
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿĪsā b. Yūnus

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AH
   عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَثقة مأمون
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Hishām b. ʿAmmār

   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 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصح
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

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