Sunan Ibn Majah 2768
The virtue of guarding the frontiers in the cause of Allah
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْلَى السُّلَمِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ صُبْحٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ عَنْ أُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
لَرِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ مِنْ وَرَاءِ عَوْرَةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مُحْتَسِبًا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا مِنْ عِبَادَةِ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ صِيَامِهَا وَقِيَامِهَا وَرِبَاطُ يَوْمٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ مِنْ وَرَاءِ عَوْرَةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مُحْتَسِبًا مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ أَفْضَلُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَأَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا أُرَاهُ قَالَ مِنْ عِبَادَةِ أَلْفِ سَنَةٍ صِيَامِهَا وَقِيَامِهَا فَإِنْ رَدَّهُ اللَّهُ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ سَالِمًا لَمْ تُكْتَبْ عَلَيْهِ سَيِّئَةٌ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ وَتُكْتَبُ لَهُ الْحَسَنَاتُ وَيُجْرَى لَهُ أَجْرُ الرِّبَاطِ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Samurah
- Muḥammad b. Yaʿlá al-Sulamī
- ʿUmar b. Ṣubḥ
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAmr
- Makḥūl
- Uba b. Kaʿb
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘For guarding the frontier for a day in the cause of Allah, defending the Muslims, seeking reward, apart from in the month of Ramadan, there is a reward granted greater than worshipping for a hundred years, fasting and praying. Guarding the frontier for a day in the cause of Allah, defending the Muslims, seeking reward, in the month of Ramadan, is better before Allah and brings a greater reward” – I think he said – “than worshipping for a thousand years, fasting and praying. If Allah returns him to his family safe and sound, no bad deed will be recorded for him for a thousand years, but his good deeds will be recorded, and the reward for guarding the frontier will come to him until the Day of Resurrection.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Fabrication SuspectedAnother source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Mawdu | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Fabricatedin ضعيف ابن ماجه, p. 552 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناد ضعيف فيه محمد بن يعلى وهو ضعيف وكذلك عمر بن صبيح ومكحول لم يدرك أبي بن كعب ومع ذلك فهو مدلس وقد عنعنه
machine translationA weak (ḍaʿīf) chain. In it is Muḥammad b. Yaʿlā, who is weak (ḍaʿīf), and likewise ʿUmar b. Ṣubayḥ. Makḥūl did not meet Ubayy b. Kaʿb, and moreover he is a concealer of defects in transmission (mudallis) and he narrated it with the ambiguous form "from" (ʿanʿana).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2861 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
آثار الوضع لائحة على هذا الحديث ولا يحتج برواية عمر بن صبيح
machine translationThe marks of fabrication are plain on this hadith, and the narration of ʿUmar b. Ṣubayḥ is not to be used as evidence.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2861 - Ibn Kathīr
أخلق بهذا الحديث أن يكون موضوعا لما فيه من المجازفة ولأنه من رواية عمر بن صبيح أحد الكذابين المعروفين بوضع الحديث
machine translationThis hadith is most likely fabricated (mawḍūʿ), because of the reckless exaggeration in it, and because it is from the narration of ʿUmar b. Ṣubayḥ, one of the known liars who fabricated hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2861
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1665Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 9711Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 9712al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17958al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2332
Narrators
- One of the distinguished Companions (min fuḍalāʾ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 19 AH, or 20 AH, or 22 AH, or 30 AH, or 32 AH, or 33 AHأُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍمن فضلاء الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), frequently narrating with omission of the Companion (kathīr al-irsāl), well-known (mashhūr)d. 112 AH, or: 113 AH, or: 114 AH, or: 116 AH, Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus said: it is said 118 AHمَكْحُولٍثقة فقيه ، كثير الإرسال ، مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَمْرٍوثقة جليلعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 160 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ صُبْحٍمتروكحدثنا
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. Muṭayyan said: 205 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْلَى السُّلَمِيُّضعيفحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 260 AH, also said: 258مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ سَمُرَةَثقةحدثنا
- 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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