Sunan Ibn Majah 226
The virtue of the scholars, and encouragement to seek knowledge
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَنْبَأَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِ عَنْ زِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍ قَالَ
أَتَيْتُ صَفْوَانَ بْنَ عَسَّالٍ الْمُرَادِيَّ فَقَالَ مَا جَاءَ بِكَ قُلْتُ أُنْبِطُ الْعِلْمَ قَالَ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَا مِنْ خَارِجٍ خَرَجَ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ فِي طَلَبِ الْعِلْمِ إِلاَّ وَضَعَتْ لَهُ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا رِضًا بِمَا يَصْنَعُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Maʿmar
- ʿĀṣim b. Abū al-Najūd
- Zir b. Ḥubaysh
"I went to Safwan bin 'Assal Al-Muradi and he said: 'What brought you here?' I said: 'I am seeking knowledge.' He said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah say: "There is no one who goes out of his house in order to seek knowledge, but the angels lower their wings in approval of his action.'"
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 | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| أبو علي الطوسي كردوش | Good-Soundin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 232 | 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
رجال إسناده ثقات إلا أن عاصم بن أبي النجود اختلط بآخره
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 232 - al-Bukhari
قال الترمذي سألت محمدا فقلت أي الحديث عندك أصح في التوقيت في المسح قال حديث صفوان
machine translational-Tirmidhī said: I asked Muḥammad [al-Bukhārī] and said: "Which hadith in your view is most authentic regarding the time limit for wiping?" He said: "The hadith of Ṣafwān."
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 232 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
أشار أبو عمر بن عبد البر إلى حسنه
machine translationAbū ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Barr indicated that it is good (ḥasan).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 232
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- well-known Companiond. during the caliphate of ʿAlīصَفْوَان بْن عَسَّال الْمُرَادِيّصحابي معروفقال
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 81 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AHزِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍثقة جليلعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 127 AH, or: 128 AHعَاصِمِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّجُودِصدوق له أوهامعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), eminentd. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 252 AH, also said: 256 AH, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād al-Naysābūrī said: 257 AH, al-Khaṭīb said: all these views are mistaken, Abū Ḥāmid b. al-Sharqī and others said: 258 AH, and this is correctمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة حافظ جليلحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
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