Sunan Ibn Majah 227
The virtue of the scholars, and encouragement to seek knowledge
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ صَخْرٍ عَنِ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
مَنْ جَاءَ مَسْجِدِي هَذَا لَمْ يَأْتِهِ إِلاَّ لِخَيْرٍ يَتَعَلَّمُهُ أَوْ يُعَلِّمُهُ فَهُوَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَمَنْ جَاءَ لِغَيْرِ ذَلِكَ فَهُوَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الرَّجُلِ يَنْظُرُ إِلَى مَتَاعِ غَيْرِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Ḥātim b. Ismāʿīl
- Ḥumayd b. Ṣakhr
- al-Maqburī
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"I heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'Whoever comes to this mosque of mine, and only comes for a good purpose, such as to learn or to teach, his status is like that of one who fights in Jihad in the cause of Allah. Whoever comes for any other purpose, his status is that of a man who is keeping an eye on other people's property.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 187 | fawazahmed0, 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
إسناده صحيح على شرط مسلم
machine translationIts chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ) according to the criterion of Muslim.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 233 - Dāraquṭnī
اختلف فيه على سعيد المقبري فرواه أبو صخرة حميد بن زياد عن سعيد المقبري عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وخالفه عبيد الله بن عمر فرواه عن سعيد المقبري عن عمر بن أبي بكر بن عبد الرحمن بن الحارث عن كعب الأحبار قوله ورواه ابن عجلان عن سعيد المقبري عن أبي بكر بن عبد الرحمن عن كعب الأحبار قوله وقول عبيد الله بن عمر أشبه بالصواب
machine translationThere is disagreement concerning Saʿīd al-Maqburī. Abū Sakhrah Ḥumayd b. Ziyād narrated it from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar contradicted him, and narrated it from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from ʿUmar b. Abī Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Ḥārith, from Kaʿb al-Aḥbār as his own statement. Ibn ʿAjlān narrated it from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Kaʿb al-Aḥbār as his own statement. The statement of ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar is closer to the correct view.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 233
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 742عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «مَنْ جَاءَ مَسْجِدي هَذَا لم يَأْته إِلَّا لِخَيْرٍ يَتَعَلَّمُهُ أَوْ يُعَلِّمُهُ فَهُوَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَمَنْ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 10814Musnad Ahmad 8603Musnad Ahmad 9419Sahih Ibn Hibban 87al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5920al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 310
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
- 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), prone to error (yahim)d. 189 AH, also said: 192 AH, al-Dhahabī dated it between 141 and 150 AHحُمَيْدِ بْنِ صَخْرٍصدوق يهمعن
- His book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), truthful (ṣadūq) but makes errors (yahim)d. 186 AH or 187 AHحَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَصحيح الكتاب ، صدوق يهمحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- 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
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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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