Sunan Ibn Majah 2364
A Man Who Has Testimony To Give, When The Person To Whom It Pertains Is Unaware Of That
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْجُعْفِيُّ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ الْعُكْلِيُّ أَخْبَرَنِي أُبَىُّ بْنُ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ حَدَّثَنِي خَارِجَةُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ أَخْبَرَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ الأَنْصَارِيُّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ زَيْدَ بْنَ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيَّ يَقُولُ إِنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
خَيْرُ الشُّهُودِ مَنْ أَدَّى شَهَادَتَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسْأَلَهَا
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad and Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Juʿfī
- Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb al-ʿUklī
- Uba b. ʿAbbās b. Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī
- Abū Bakr b. ʿAmr b. Ḥazm
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
- Khārijah b. Zayd b. Thābit
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū ʿAmrah al-Anṣārī
- Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“The best of witnesses is the one who gives his testimony before he is asked for it.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1928 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
رجح حديث زيد بن خالد لكونه من رواية أهل المدينة
machine translationHe gave preference to the hadith of Zayd b. Khālid because it is from the narration of the people of Medina.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2449
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 1719Sunan Abi Dawud 3596Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2295Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2296Musnad Ahmad 17040al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20660
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 68 AH or 72 AH or 78 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّصحابي مشهورسمع
- Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: He did not have companionship (ṣuḥbah) with the Prophet.d. between 101 AH and 110 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّقال ابن أبي حاتم : ليست له صحبةأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist.d. 99 AH, or 100 AH.خَارِجَةُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍثقة فقيه.حدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 145 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَصدوقأخبرني
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 100 AH, or 110 AH, or 117 AH, or 120 AH, also said: 126 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍثقة عابدحدثني
- there is weakness in himd. between 161 and 170 AHأُبَيُّ بْنُ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيُّفيه ضعفأخبرني
- and he is truthful (ṣadūq), errs in the hadith of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH, also said: 204 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ الْعُكْلِيُّوهو صدوق ، يخطئ في حديث الثوريحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), memorizes, and has unusual narrations (gharāʾib)d. 260 AHوَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْجُعْفِيُّصدوق يحفظ وله غرائبحدثنا
- 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
الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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