Sunan Ibn Majah 2350

Translation

the Quraish went to a sorceress and they said to her: “Tell us whose footprints most resemble those of the owner of Al-Maqam (the station of Ibrahim).” She said: “If you spread a piece of cloth over this soft earth and walk over it, I will tell you.” So they spread out a piece of cloth and the people walked over it. She saw the footprints of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: “This one most closely resembles him among you.” After that twenty years passed, of as long as Allah willed, then Allah sent Muhammad ﷺ (i.e., missioned him as the Prophet).

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• أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

  إسناده صحيح ورجاله ثقات

  machine translationIts chain is sound (ṣaḥīḥ) and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2435
• al-Albani

  منكر ضعيف

  in ضعيف ابن ماجه, p. 466

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 3072

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   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 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās

   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 mistake
   عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
   عن
3. 3
   Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
   سِمَاكُ بْنُ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Yūsuf

   trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, it is said: he erred in some of the hadith of Sufyān, despite that, he is given precedence in it by them over ʿAbd al-Razzāqd. 212 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Dhuhlī

   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 correct
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة حافظ جليل
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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