Sunan Ibn Majah 2223
Being Cautious With Regard To Weights And Measures
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ بِشْرِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَقِيلِ بْنِ خُوَيْلِدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ النَّحْوِيُّ أَنَّ عِكْرِمَةَ حَدَّثَهُ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
لَمَّا قَدِمَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ كَانُوا مِنْ أَخْبَثِ النَّاسِ كَيْلاً فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ {وَيْلٌ لِلْمُطَفِّفِينَ} فَأَحْسَنُوا الْكَيْلَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Bishr b. al-Ḥakam and Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl b. Khūwaylid
- ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid
- my father
- Yazīd al-Naḥwī
- ʿIkrimah
- Ibn ʿAbbās
"When the Prophet ﷺ came to Al-Madinah, they were the worst people in weights and measures. Then Allah, Glorious is He revealed: "Woe to the Mutaffifun (those who give less in measure and weight)",[1] and they were fair in weights and measures after that.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Goodin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1822 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسناد صحيح
machine translationThe chain of transmission is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2305 - Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
إسناد صحيح
machine translationThe chain of transmission is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2305 - أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناده حسن لأن محمود بن عقيل وعلي بن الحسين مختلف فيهما وباقي رجال الإسناد ثقات
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2305
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 4919al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12074al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 11285al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11618al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2240
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), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةحدثه
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 131 AHيَزِيدُ النَّحْوِيُّثقة عابدحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), with some errors (awhām)d. 159 AH, also said: 157 AHأَبِيثقة ، له أوهامحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 211 AH, also said: 212 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍصدوق يهمحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq); he narrated hadiths from memory and erred in some of themd. 257 AH or after itوَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَقِيلِ بْنِ خُوَيْلِدٍصدوق حدث من حفظه بأحاديث فأخطأ في بعضهاحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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