Sunan Ibn Majah 278

Translation

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Adhere to righteousness even though you will not be able to do all acts of virtue. Know that among the best of your deeds is prayer and that no one maintains his ablution except a believer.'"

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What scholars said about it

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• Maghlaṭay

  هذا الإسناد لا بأس به

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 293

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 292عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اسْتَقِيمُوا وَلَنْ تُحْصُوا وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ خَيْرَ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلَاةُ وَلَا يُحَافِظُ عَلَى الْوُضُوءِ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ». رَوَاهُ مَالِكٌ وَأَحْمَدُ وَا
• Sunan Ibnu Majah 277اسْتَقِيمُوا وَلَنْ تُحْصُوا وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ خَيْرَ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلاَةُ وَلاَ يُحَافِظُ عَلَى الْوُضُوءِ إِلاَّ مُؤْمِنٌ

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3038Sunan Ibn Majah 279Musnad Ahmad 22414al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14587Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 447

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ

   One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاء
   عن
2. 2
   Mujāhid b. Jabr al-Makhzūmī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AH
   مُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلم
   عن
3. 3
   Layth

   Truthful (ṣadūq), his memory became badly confused (ikhtilāṭ), his hadith could not be distinguished, so he was abandonedd. 138 AH, or 141 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH, or 148 AH
   لَيْثٍصدوق اختلط جدا ، ولم يتميز حديثه فترك
   عن
4. 4
   Muʿtamir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AH
   الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥabīb b. al-Shahīd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 256 AH, or 257 AH
   إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ حَبِيبِ بْنِ الشَّهِيدِثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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