Sunan Ibn Majah 279
Maintaining one's ablution
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ أَسِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَفْصٍ الدِّمَشْقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ يَرْفَعُ الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ
اسْتَقِيمُوا وَنِعِمَّا أَنْ تَسْتَقِيمُوا وَخَيْرُ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلاَةُ وَلاَ يُحَافِظُ عَلَى الْوُضُوءِ إِلاَّ مُؤْمِنٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá
- Ibn Abū Maryam
- Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb
- Isḥāq b. Asīd
- Abū Ḥafṣ al-Dimashqī
- Abū Umāmah Yarfaʿ al-Ḥadīth
"Adhere to righteousness and it is a blessing if you are able to do so. Know that the best of your deeds is prayer and that no one maintains his ablution except a believer."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1/106Another source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
| أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري | Weak Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 294 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
حديث منكر
machine translationA rejected (munkar) hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 294 - علاء الدين مغلطاي
[فيه] إسحاق بن أسيد قال ابن حبان: ليس بالمشهور ولا يشتغل به وقال أبو أحمد بن عدي: هو مجهول
in شرح ابن ماجه, p. 1/59
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3038Musnad Ahmad 22414al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14587al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 8Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 447
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh said: 81 AH. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī and more than one said: 86 AHأَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- unknown (majhūl)أَبِي حَفْصٍ الدِّمَشْقِيِّمجهولعن
- there is weakness in himd. between 141 and 150 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ أَسِيدٍفيه ضعفحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 163 AH, 168 AH, also said 167 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَصدوق ربما أخطأحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), juristd. 224 AHابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَثقة ثبت فقيهحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), eminentd. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 252 AH, also said: 256 AH, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād al-Naysābūrī said: 257 AH, al-Khaṭīb said: all these views are mistaken, Abū Ḥāmid b. al-Sharqī and others said: 258 AH, and this is correctمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة حافظ جليلحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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