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Sunan Ibn Majah 275

The key to prayer is purification

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ ابْنِ الْحَنَفِيَّةِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مِفْتَاحُ الصَّلاَةِ الطُّهُورُ وَتَحْرِيمُهَا التَّكْبِيرُ وَتَحْلِيلُهَا التَّسْلِيمُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
  2. Wakīʿ
  3. Sufyān
  4. ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl
  5. Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah
  6. his father
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'The key to prayer is purification, its opening is to say 'Allahu Akbar' and its closing is to say As-salamu 'alaikum.'"

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Zubair Ali ZaiGoodfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiHasan Sahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautHasan Lighairihifawazahmed0
al-AlbaniHasan Sahihfawazahmed0
عبد الرحمن بن مهديSoundin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • البغوي محيي السنة

    هذا حديث حسن

    machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan) hadith.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290
  • عبد الكريم بن محمد الرافعي

    هذا حديث ثابت

    machine translationThis is an established (thābit) hadith.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290
  • Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

    وصححه

    machine translationAnd he graded it authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290
  • العقيلي

    في إسناده لين وهو أصلح من حديث جابر

    machine translationThere is some weakness (layn) in its chain of transmission, but it is sounder than the hadith of Jābir.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290
  • عمرو بن الحصين العقيلي

    في إسناده لين وهو أصلح من حديث جابر

    machine translationThere is some weakness (layn) in its chain of transmission, but it is sounder than the hadith of Jābir.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290
  • Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

    حديث علي الذي رواه ابن عقيل عن محمد ابن الحنيفة عنه هو أشهر أسانيده قال والشيخان أعرضا عن حديث ابن عقيل أصلا

    machine translationThe hadith of ʿAlī that Ibn ʿAqīl narrated from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, from him, is the best known of its chains. He said: and the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) turned away from the hadith of Ibn ʿAqīl altogether.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290
  • أبو نعيم الأصبهاني

    هذا الحديث مشهور ولا يعرف إلا من حديث ابن عقيل بهذا اللفظ من حديث علي

    machine translationThis hadith is well known, but it is not known in this wording from the hadith of ʿAlī except through the hadith of Ibn ʿAqīl.

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 3«مِفْتَاحُ الصَّلاَةِ الطُّهُورُ، وَتَحْرِيمُهَا التَّكْبِيرُ، وَتَحْلِيلُهَا التَّسْلِيمُ۔»
  • Sunan Abu Dawud 61مِفْتَاحُ الصَّلاَةِ الطُّهُورُ وَتَحْرِيمُهَا التَّكْبِيرُ وَتَحْلِيلُهَا التَّسْلِيمُ
  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 276مِفْتَاحُ الصَّلاَةِ الطُّهُورُ وَتَحْرِيمُهَا التَّكْبِيرُ وَتَحْلِيلُهَا التَّسْلِيمُ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 312وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: «مِفْتَاحُ الصَّلَاةِ الطُّهُورُ وَتَحْرِيمُهَا التَّكْبِيرُ وَتَحْلِيلُهَا التَّسْلِيمُ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَالتِّرْمِذِيّ والدارمي وَرَوَاهُ ابْنُ مَاجَهْ عَنْهُ وَ
  • Sunan Abu Dawud 618مِفْتَاحُ الصَّلاَةِ الطُّهُورُ وَتَحْرِيمُهَا التَّكْبِيرُ وَتَحْلِيلُهَا التَّسْلِيمُ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. 73 AH, or 81 AH, also said 80 AH, also said 82 AH, also said 92 AH, also said 93 AH, also said 114 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ ابْنِ الْحَنَفِيَّةِثقة عالم
    عن
  3. Truthful (ṣadūq), with some laxity (layyin) in his hadith; it is said that his memory changed towards the end of his life.d. after 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 145 AH
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍصدوق في حديثه لين ، ويقال : تغير بآخره
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
    سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    عن
  5. Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
    وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
    حدثنا
  6. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  7. 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

al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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