Sunan Ibn Majah 239
The reward of the one teaching the people the good
Show the chain
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ عُمَرَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
إِنَّهُ لَيَسْتَغْفِرُ لِلْعَالِمِ مَنْ فِي السَّمَوَاتِ وَمَنْ فِي الأَرْضِ حَتَّى الْحِيتَانِ فِي الْبَحْرِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hishām b. ʿAmmār
- Ḥafṣ b. ʿUmar
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAṭāʾ
- his father
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"I heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'Everyone in the universe, in the heavens and on earth, prays for forgiveness for the scholar, even the fish in the sea."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
ضعفه
machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 246 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
مضطرب الإسناد
machine translationIts chain is confused (muḍṭarib al-isnād).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 246
Other narrations of this report
Sunan ad-Darimi 355al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6225Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26636Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 21107Musnad al-Bazzar 10260al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3684
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), errs often, and narrates mursal, and practises concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH, or 135 AHأَبِيهِصدوق يهم كثيرا ، ويرسل ، ويدلسعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. Ibn Yūnus said: 151 AH, from Ibn al-Athīr: 154 AH, Ḍamrah said: 155 AHعُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَطَاءٍضعيفعن
- unknown (majhūl)حَفْصُ بْنُ عُمَرَمجهولحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصححدثنا
- 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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