Sunan Ibn Majah 243
The reward of the one teaching the people the good
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حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ الْمَدَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ طَلْحَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
أَفْضَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ الْمَرْءُ الْمُسْلِمُ عِلْمًا ثُمَّ يُعَلِّمَهُ أَخَاهُ الْمُسْلِمَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaʿqūb b. Ḥumayd b. Kāsib al-Madanī
- Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
- Ṣafwān b. Sulaym
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Ṭalḥah
- al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet said: "The best of charity is when a Muslim man gains knowledge, then he teaches it to his Muslim brother."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 45 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناده ضعيف فإسحاق بن إبراهيم ضعيف وكذلك يعقوب والحسن لم يسمع من أبي هريرة
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 251
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), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 131 AH and 140 AHعُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ طَلْحَةَمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a mufti, a devout worshipper, accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 124 AH, or 132 AHصَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍثقة ، مفت عابد ، رمي بالقدرعن
- weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَلين الحديثحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), sometimes had lapses (wahm).d. 240 AH, or 241 AHيَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ الْمَدِينِيُّصدوق ، ربما وهم .حدثنا
- 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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