Sunan Ibn Majah 2444
Hiring A Worker In Return For Food
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُصَفَّى الْحِمْصِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ عُلَىٍّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ عُلَىِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عُتْبَةَ بْنَ النُّدَّرِ يَقُولُ
كُنَّا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَرَأَ طسم حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغَ قِصَّةَ مُوسَى قَالَ إِنَّ مُوسَى ﷺ أَجَّرَ نَفْسَهُ ثَمَانِيَ سِنِينَ أَوْ عَشْرًا عَلَى عِفَّةِ فَرْجِهِ وَطَعَامِ بَطْنِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-Muṣaffá al-Ḥimṣī
- Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd
- Maslamah b. ʿUla
- Saʿīd b. Abū Ayyūb
- al-Ḥārith b. Yazīd
- ʿUla b. Rabāḥ
- ʿUtbah b. al-Nuddar
“I heard 'Utbah bin Nuddar say: 'We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he recited Ta-Sin. When he reached the story of Musa, he said: 'Musa (A.S) hired himself out for eight years, or ten, in return for his chastity and food in his stomach.' ”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Extremely Weakin ضعيف ابن ماجه, p. 483 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناده ضعيف لأن فيه بقية وهو مدلس
machine translationIts chain of transmission is weak (ḍaʿīf) because it includes Baqiyyah, who was a concealer of defects in the chain (mudallis).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2531 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
في إسناده ضعف
machine translationThere is weakness (ḍaʿf) in its chain of transmission.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2531
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2989عَنْ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ الْمُنْذِرِ قَالَ: كُنَّا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَرَأَ: (طسم) حَتَّى بَلَّغَ قِصَّةَ مُوسَى قَالَ: «إِنَّ مُوسَى عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ آجَرَ نَفْسَهُ ثَمَانِ سِنِينَ أَوْ عَشْرًا عَلَى ع
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 84 AHعُتْبَةُ بْنُ النُّدَّرِ السُّلَمِيُّصحابيسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 117 AH, also said: 114 AHعُلَيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), devout worshipperd. 130 AHالْحَارِثِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت ، عابدعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 161 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 149 AH, from Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad b. ʿAmr b. al-Sarḥ, he said: 152 AH, also said: beginning of 162 AH, also said: 166 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي أَيُّوبَثقة ثبتعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. before 190 AHمَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ عَلِيٍّمتروكعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AHبَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاءحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), has some lapses (awhām), and he used to practise concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAlī al-Jayyānī said: about 240 AH, Ibn Qāniʿ said: 246 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُصَفَّى الْحِمْصِيُّصدوق له أوهام ، وكان يدلسحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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