Sunan Ibn Majah 319
The prohibition of facing the Qiblah when defecating or urinating
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلاَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ يَحْيَى الْمَازِنِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي زَيْدٍ مَوْلَى الثَّعْلَبِيِّينَ عَنْ مَعْقِلِ بْنِ أَبِي مَعْقِلٍ الأَسَدِيِّ وَقَدْ صَحِبَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نَسْتَقْبِلَ الْقِبْلَتَيْنِ بِغَائِطٍ أَوْ بِبَوْلٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Khālid b. Makhlad
- Sulaymān b. Bilāl
- ʿAmr b. Yaḥyá al-Māzinī
- Abū Zayd a freed slave of al-Thaʿlabiyyīn
- Maʿqil b. Abū Maʿqil al-Asadī and Qad Ṣaḥib al-Nabī ﷺ
"The Messenger of Allah forbade us from facing either of the two Qiblah when defecating or urinating."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abū Daʾūd | Remains Silentin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 341 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 64 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī | Remains Silentin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 341 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Maghlaṭay
أبو داود وغيره ردوا هذا الحديث عن معقل
machine translationAbū Dāwūd and others rejected this hadith from Maʿqil.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 341 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هو حديث ضعيف لأن فيه راويا مجهول الحال
machine translationThis is a weak (ḍaʿīf) hadith because it contains a narrator whose condition is unknown (majhūl al-ḥāl).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 341 - Nūr al-Dīn al-Sindī
قيل أبو زيد مجهول الحال فالحديث ضعيف به
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 341 - محمد بن سعد
الحديث من رواية معقل عن أبي الهيثم لا عن معقل
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 341
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 394Sahih Muslim 262bSunan an-Nasa'i 21Sunan an-Nasa'i 41Musnad Ahmad 23708al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3938Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 3Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30520Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30522Musnad al-Bazzar 4320al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9843al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9845
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. in the days of the Prophet ﷺ, or: in Muʿāwiyah's caliphateمَعْقِلُ بْنُ أَبِي مَعْقِلٍ الْأَسَدِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- unknown (majhūl)أَبِي زَيْدٍ مَوْلَى الثَّعْلَبِيِّينَمجهولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 130 AH, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: the year 140 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ يَحْيَى الْمَازِنِيُّثقةحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 172 AH, or: 177 AHسُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ بِلَالٍثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), inclined to Shīʿism, and he has singular reports (afrād).d. 213 AH, or 214 AH.خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍصدوق يتشيع ، وله أفراد.حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- 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
الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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