Sunan Ibn Majah 2568
The Legal Punishment For Slander
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي فُدَيْكٍ حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
إِذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ لِلرَّجُلِ يَا مُخَنَّثُ فَاجْلِدُوهُ عِشْرِينَ وَإِذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ لِلرَّجُلِ يَا لُوطِيُّ فَاجْلِدُوهُ عِشْرِينَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ibrāhīm
- Ibn Abū Fudayk
- Ibn Abū Ḥabībah
- Dāwud b. al-Ḥuṣayn
- ʿIkrimah
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- al-Nabī ﷺ
“If one man says another: 'O effeminate one!' give him twenty lashes. And if one man says to another: 'O homosexual!' give him twenty twenty lashes.”
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 ابن ماجه, p. 507 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
هذا حديث منكر لم يروه غير ابن أبي حبيبة
machine translationThis is a rejected (munkar) hadith; no one narrated it except Ibn Abī Ḥabībah.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2658 - محمد بن الفرج القرطبي
مختلف في ثبوته
machine translationThere is disagreement about whether it is authentic.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2658
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28944Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28946Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28947Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29562Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29563al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17235
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistakeعِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) except in [narrations from] ʿIkrimah, and he was accused of holding the opinion of the Khawārij.d. 133 AH, also said 135 AHدَاوُدَ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِثقة إلا في عكرمة ، ورمي برأي الخوارجعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 165 AH, also said: 160 AHابْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبَةَضعيفحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. al-Bukhārī said: 200 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 199 AH, he said elsewhere: 201 AHابْنُ أَبِي فُدَيْكٍصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 245 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ متقنحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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