Sunan Ibn Majah 2689
One Who Offers Protection To A Man Then Kills Him
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو لَيْلَى عَنْ أَبِي عُكَّاشَةَ عَنْ رِفَاعَةَ قَالَ
دَخَلْتُ عَلَى الْمُخْتَارِ فِي قَصْرِهِ فَقَالَ قَامَ جِبْرَائِيلُ مِنْ عِنْدِي السَّاعَةَ فَمَا مَنَعَنِي مِنْ ضَرْبِ عُنُقِهِ إِلاَّ حَدِيثٌ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ صُرَدٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِذَا أَمِنَكَ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى دَمِهِ فَلاَ تَقْتُلْهُ فَذَاكَ الَّذِي مَنَعَنِي مِنْهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- Wakīʿ
- Abū Laylá
- Abū ʿUkkāshah
- Rifāʿah
“I entered upon Mukhtar in his palace and he said: 'Jibril has just left me.' Nothing stopped me from striking his neck (i.e, killing him) but a Hadith that I heard from Sulaiman bin Surad, according to which the Prophet ﷺ said: 'If a man trusts you with his life, then do not kill him.' That is what stopped me.”
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 | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Mizzī
قاله وكيع عن أبي ليلى ولم يسمه وقال مسلم بن إبراهيم عن عبد الله بن ميسرة الحارثي عن أبي عكاشة عن رفاعة بن شداد عن سليمان بن صرد الأول أشبه بالصواب أبو عكاشة الهمداني عن رفاعة بن شداد عن عمرو بن الحمق فإن حديث عمرو بن الحمق محفوظ في هذا الباب
machine translationWakīʿ said it from Abū Laylā without naming him. And Muslim b. Ibrāhīm said, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maysarah al-Ḥārithī, from Abū ʿUkāshah, from Rifāʿah b. Shaddād, from Sulaymān b. Ṣurad. The first is closer to the correct view: Abū ʿUkāshah al-Hamdānī, from Rifāʿah b. Shaddād, from ʿAmr b. al-Ḥamiq, for the ḥadīth of ʿAmr b. al-Ḥamiq is preserved (maḥfūẓ) on this topic.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2782
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 21946Musnad Ahmad 21947Musnad Ahmad 21948al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18491al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8040
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 65 AH, or 67 AHسُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ صُرَدٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّصحابيصريح في السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 66 AH, also said: 60-odd AHرِفَاعَةَثقةعن
- unknown (majhūl)أَبِي عُكَّاشَةَمجهولعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 171 and 180 AHأَبُو لَيْلَىضعيفحدثنا
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- 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.