Sunan Ibn Majah 265
One who is asked about knowledge but conceals it
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ حِبَّانَ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ الثَّقَفِيُّ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْوَاسِطِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَاصِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ دَابٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مَنْ كَتَمَ عِلْمًا مِمَّا يَنْفَعُ اللَّهُ بِهِ فِي أَمْرِ النَّاسِ فِي الدِّينِ أَلْجَمَهُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بِلِجَامٍ مِنَ النَّارِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl b. Ḥibbān b. Wāqid al-Thaqafī Abū Isḥāq al-Wāsiṭī
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿĀṣim
- Muḥammad b. Dāb
- Ṣafwān b. Sulaym
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Whoever conceals knowledge which Allah has made beneficial for mankind's affairs of religion, Allah will bridle him with reins of fire on the Day of Resurrection."
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 | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Nūr al-Dīn al-Sindī
في إسناده محمد بن داب كذبه أبو زرعة وغيره ونسب إلى الوضع
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 279 - أبو زرعة الرازي
محمد هذا ضعيف الحديث كان يكذب
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 279
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 261Musnad Ahmad 8638Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26982Musnad al-Bazzar 9303Musnad Abi Ya'la 6387
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 112 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a mufti, a devout worshipper, accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 124 AH, or 132 AHصَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍثقة ، مفت عابد ، رمي بالقدرعن
- Called a liar by Abū Zurʿahd. between 171 AH and 180 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ دَابٍكذبه أبو زرعةحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 221 and 230 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَاصِمٍصدوقحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 251 and 260 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ حَبَّانَ بْنِ وَاقِدٍ الثَّقَفِيُّ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْوَاسِطِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- 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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