Sunan Ibn Majah 222
The virtue of the scholars, and encouragement to seek knowledge
Show the chain
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحُ بْنُ جَنَاحٍ أَبُو سَعْدٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
فَقِيهٌ وَاحِدٌ أَشَدُّ عَلَى الشَّيْطَانِ مِنْ أَلْفِ عَابِدٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hishām b. ʿAmmār
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- Rawḥ b. Janāḥ Abū Saʿd
- Mujāhid
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'One Faqih (knowledgeable man) is more formidable against the Shaitan than one thousand devoted worshippers.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Mawdu | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Mawdu | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- الساجي
عنده حديث منكر
machine translationHe has a rejected (munkar) hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 228 - السخاوي
قال في المقاصد أسانيده ضعيفة لكنه يتقوى بعضها ببعض
machine translationHe said in al-Maqāṣid: Its chains of narration are weak (ḍaʿīf), but some of them are strengthened by others.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 228 - الساجي
حديث منكر
machine translationA rejected (munkar) hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 228
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 217وَعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «فَقِيهٌ وَاحِدٌ أَشَدُّ عَلَى الشَّيْطَانِ مِنْ أَلْفِ عَابِدٍ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْن مَاجَه)
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 2681فَقِيهٌ أَشَدُّ عَلَى الشَّيْطَانِ مِنْ أَلْفِ عَابِدٍ
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11128al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6172Sunan al-Daraqutni 3085al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3689
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), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 141 and 150 AHرَوْحُ بْنُ جَنَاحٍ أَبُو سَعْدٍضعيفحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- 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
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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