Sunan Ibn Majah 2307
Keeping Livestock
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنِ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ
أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الأَغْنِيَاءَ بِاتِّخَاذِ الْغَنَمِ وَأَمَرَ الْفُقَرَاءَ بِاتِّخَاذِ الدَّجَاجِ وَقَالَ عِنْدَ اتِّخَاذِ الأَغْنِيَاءِ الدَّجَاجَ يَأْذَنُ اللَّهُ بِهَلاَكِ الْقُرَى
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿAlī b. ʿUrwah
- al-Maqburī
- Abū Hurayrah
"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded the rich to keep sheep, and he commanded the poor to keep chickens, and he said: 'When the rich keep chickens, then Allah will give permission for the town to be destroyed."'
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Fabrication SuspectedAnother source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Mawdu | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Mawdu | 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.
- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده علي بن عروة تركوه وقال ابن حبان يضع الحديث وعثمان بن عبد الرحمن مجهول
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2391 - ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Jawzī
المتن ذكره في الموضوعات
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2391
Other narrations of this report
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
- abandoned (matrūk)d. between 141 and 150 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ عُرْوَةَمتروكحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), he narrated much from weak and unknown narrators and was deemed weak because of that, to the point that Ibn Numayr attributed lying to him. And Ibn Maʿīn deemed him trustworthyd. 202 AH, or 203 AH, or 230 AH, or 233 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ، أكثر الرواية عن الضعفاء والمجاهيل فضعف بسبب ذلك حتى نسبه ابن نمير إلى الكذب . وقد وثقه ابن معينحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 260 AH, also said: 258مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقةحدثنا
- 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
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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