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Sunan Ibn Majah 2701

Exhortation To Make a Will

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُصَفَّى الْحِمْصِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَوْفٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنْ مَاتَ عَلَى وَصِيَّةٍ مَاتَ عَلَى سَبِيلٍ وَسُنَّةٍ وَمَاتَ عَلَى تُقًى وَشَهَادَةٍ وَمَاتَ مَغْفُورًا لَهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. al-Muṣaffá al-Ḥimṣī
  2. Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd
  3. Yazīd b. ʿAwf
  4. Abū al-Zubayr
  5. Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“Whoever dies leaving a will, he dies on the right path and Sunnah, and he dies with piety and witness, and he dies forgiven.”

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Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiDaiffawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautVery Daiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniDaiffawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

    في إسناده بقية وهو مدلس وشيخه وبه يزيد بن عوف لم أر من تكلم فيه

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2794

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 3076عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ مَاتَ عَلَى وَصِيَّةٍ مَاتَ عَلَى سَبِيلٍ وَسُنَّةٍ وَمَاتَ عَلَى تُقًى وَشَهَادَةٍ وَمَاتَ مَغْفُورًا لَهُ». رَوَاهُ ابْنُ مَاجَهْ

Narrators

  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AH
    أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ ، ج٤ / ص٩صدوق إلا أنه يدلس
    عن
  3. unknown (majhūl)
    يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَوْفٍمجهول .
    عن
  4. 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 AH
    بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
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  5. 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 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُصَفَّى الْحِمْصِيُّصدوق له أوهام ، وكان يدلس
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  6. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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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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