Sunan Ibn Majah 240
The reward of the one teaching the people the good
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عِيسَى الْمِصْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ مُعَاذِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
مَنْ عَلَّمَ عِلْمًا فَلَهُ أَجْرُ مَنْ عَمِلَ بِهِ لاَ يَنْقُصُ مِنْ أَجْرِ الْعَامِلِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿĪsá al-Miṣrī
- ʿAbdullāh b. and Hb
- Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb
- Sahl b. Muʿādh b. Anas
- his father
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet said: "Whoever teaches some knowledge will have the reward of the one who acts upon it, without that detracting from his reward in the slightest."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | GoodAnother source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Goodin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 198 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
فيه سهل بن معاذ ضعفه ابن معين ووثقه العجلي وذكره ابن حبان في الثقات والضعفاء ويحيى بن أيوب قيل إنه لم يدرك سهل بن معاذ ففيه انقطاع
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 247
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. survived until ʿAbd al-Malik's caliphateمُعَاذ بْن أَنَس الْجُهَنِيّصحابيعن
- no harm in him (lā baʾsa bih) except in the narrations of Zabbān from himd. between 111 and 120 AHسَهْلِ بْنِ مُعَاذِ بْنِ أَنَسٍلا بأس به إلا في روايات زبان عنهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 163 AH, 168 AH, also said 167 AHيَحْيَى بْنِ أَيُّوبَصدوق ربما أخطأعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابدحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), some of his hearings were criticized, al-Khaṭīb said: without proofd. Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī said, and Ibn Qāniʿ, and Ibn Yūnus: 243 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: before 240 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عِيسَى الْمِصْرِيُّصدوق تلكم في بعض سماعاته ، قال الخطيب : بلا حجةحدثنا
- 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
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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