Sunan Ibn Majah 2520
The Mukatab
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ نَبْهَانَ مَوْلَى أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ أَنَّهَا أَخْبَرَتْ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
إِذَا كَانَ لإِحْدَاكُنَّ مُكَاتَبٌ وَكَانَ عِنْدَهُ مَا يُؤَدِّي فَلْتَحْتَجِبْ مِنْهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- al-Zuhrī
- Nabhān a freed slave of Um Salamah
- Um Salamah
- Akhbarat
- al-Nabī ﷺ
“If anyone of you (women) has a Mukatab, and he has enough (wealth) to pay off (his contact of manumission), she must veil herself from him.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Mubarakpūri
فيه طعن
machine translationThere is criticism (ṭaʿn) of him.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2609 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
لم يروه إلا نبهان مولاها وليس بمعروف بحمل العلم
machine translationNone narrated it except Nabhān, her freed slave (mawlā), and he is not known for carrying knowledge.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2609 - Shafiʿī
الحديث لا يخلو من ضعف لأن راويه نبهان
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2609 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
نبهان مولى أم سلمة ليس ممن يحتج بحديثه وزعم أنه لم يرو إلا حديثين منكرين
machine translationNabhān, the freedman of Umm Salamah, is not one whose hadith is used as evidence, and he claimed that he narrated only two objectionable (munkar) hadiths.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2609
Other narrations of this report
al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5019al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5021al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9203
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 59 AH, or: 61 AH, or: 62 AHأُمُّ سَلَمَةُ هِنْدُ بِنْتُ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَأم المؤمنينعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)نَبْهَانَ مَوْلَى أُمِّ سَلَمَةَمقبولعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- 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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