Sunan Ibn Majah 2860

Translation

“Listen and obey, even if the one appointed over you is an Ethiopian slave with a head like a raisin.”

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Albani

  لا نعلم روى [نحو] هذا الكلام إلا أبو التياح، عن أنس

  in صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 2327

Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih al-Bukhari 693اسْمَعُوا وَأَطِيعُوا وَإِنِ اسْتُعْمِلَ حَبَشِيٌّ كَأَنَّ رَأْسَهُ زَبِيبَةٌ
• Misykatul Mashabih 3663وَعَنْ أَنَسٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «اسْمَعُوا وَأَطِيعُوا وَإِنِ اسْتُعْمِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَبْدٌ حَبَشِيٌّ كَأَنَّ رَأْسَهُ زَبِيبَةٌ». رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ
• Shahih al-Bukhari 7142اسْمَعُوا وَأَطِيعُوا وَإِنِ اسْتُعْمِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ عَبْدٌ حَبَشِيٌّ كَأَنَّ رَأْسَهُ زَبِيبَةٌ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1837bJami' at-Tirmidhi 1706Musnad Ahmad 27266Musnad Ahmad 27268

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Abū al-Tayyāḥ

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 128 AH, or: 130 AH.
   أَبُو التَّيَّاحِثقة ثبت .
   حدثني
3. 3
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Bishr Bakr b. Khalaf

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 240 AH, or after it
   وَأَبُو بِشْرٍ بَكْرُ بْنُ خَلَفٍصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

   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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