Sunan Ibn Majah 3130
What sacrifices are recommended
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حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَائِذٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ سُلَيْمَ بْنَ عَامِرٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيِّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
خَيْرُ الْكَفَنِ الْحُلَّةُ وَخَيْرُ الضَّحَايَا الْكَبْشُ الأَقْرَنُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-ʿAbbās b. ʿUthmān al-Dimashqī
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- Abū ʿĀʾidh
- Sulaym b. ʿĀmir Yuḥaddith
- Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“The best of shrouds is a two piece Najrani garment and the best of sacrifices is a horned ram.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sanad Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 615 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- ابن عدي
لعفير بن معدان غير ما ذكرت من الحديث وعامة رواياته غير محفوظة
machine translationʿUfayr b. Maʿdān has other hadiths besides what I have mentioned, and most of his narrations are not preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3233 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
وفي إسناده عفير بن معدان وهو ضعيف
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is ʿUfayr b. Maʿdān, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3233
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1641وَعَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «خَيْرُ الْكَفَنِ الْحُلَّةُ وَخَيْرُ الْأُضْحِيَةِ الْكَبْشُ الْأَقْرَنُ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَرَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ عَنْ أ
- Sunan Abu Dawud 3156خَيْرُ الْكَفَنِ الْحُلَّةُ وَخَيْرُ الأُضْحِيَةِ الْكَبْشُ الأَقْرَنُ
Other narrations of this report
al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6795al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7551al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2733
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 مشهوريحدث عن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Baghdādī said: he lived after the killing of al-Jarrāḥ, and the battle of al-Jarrāḥ was in 112 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ and others said: 130 AHسُلَيْمَ بْنَ عَامِرٍثقةسمع
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 168 AHأَبُو عَائِذٍضعيفحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 239 AHالْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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