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
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- Wakīʿ
- Sufyān
- ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl
- Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah
- his father
- 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.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| عبد الرحمن بن مهدي | Soundin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Qurṭubī
صح
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ)
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290 - Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyá b. Sharaf al-Nawawī
حديث حسن
machine translationA good (ḥasan) hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290 - Ibn al-Sakan
وصححه
machine translationAnd he graded it authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290 - عبد الرحمن بن مهدي
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 290
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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
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 238Jami' at-Tirmidhi 4Sunan Ibn Majah 261Musnad Ahmad 14662Musnad Ahmad 8638al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14656Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26982al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2594al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4041al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4042Musnad al-Bazzar 9303
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- 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 AHمُحَمَّدِ ابْنِ الْحَنَفِيَّةِثقة عالمعن
- 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 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍصدوق في حديثه لين ، ويقال : تغير بآخرهعن
- 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 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- 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
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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