Sunan Ibn Majah 311
It is undesirable (Makruh) to touch the penis and to clean oneself from the call of nature with the right hand
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا الصَّلْتُ بْنُ دِينَارٍ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ صُهْبَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ يَقُولُ
مَا تَغَنَّيْتُ وَلاَ تَمَنَّيْتُ وَلاَ مَسِسْتُ ذَكَرِي بِيَمِينِي مُنْذُ بَايَعْتُ بِهَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- Wakīʿ
- al-Ṣalt b. Dīnār
- ʿUqbah b. Ṣuhbān
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
"I heard 'Uthman bin 'Affan say: 'I never sang a song or told a lie or touched my penis with my right hand after I swore on oath of allegiance to the Messenger of Allah to that effect.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Extremely Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 63 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| علاء الدين مغلطاي | Weakin الإعلام بسنته عليه السلام شرح سنن ابن ماجه الإمام, p. 1/116 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Maghlaṭay
هذا أثر ضعيف
machine translationThis is a weak (ḍaʿīf) athar.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 333
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 153Sahih al-Bukhari 5630Sunan an-Nasa'i 47Musnad Ahmad 22534Musnad Ahmad 22638Sunan ad-Darimi 2168
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 70 AH, or: at the beginning of al-Ḥajjāj's governorship over Iraq, or: 83 AHعُقْبَةَ بْنِ صُهْبَانَثقةعن
- abandoned (matrūk), a Nāṣibīd. close to 160 AHالصَّلْتُ بْنُ دِينَارٍمتروك ، ناصبيحدثنا
- 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
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
al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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