Sunan Ibn Majah 3219

Translation

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about locusts. He said: ‘(They are) the most numerous troop of Allah. I neither eat them nor forbid them.’”

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What scholars said about it

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• Mubarakpūri

  الصواب مرسل

  machine translationThe correct view is that it is mursal. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3323
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  هذا خطأ الصحيح مرسل ليس فيه سلمان

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3323
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  الصواب مرسل

  machine translationThe correct view is that it is mursal. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3323

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 3813Sunan Abi Dawud 3814al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20250al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9285al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19063al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19064

Narrators

1. 1
   Salmān al-Fārisī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 34 AH or before it, or 35 AH or 36 AH or 37 AH
   سَلْمَان الْفَارِسِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 75 AH, or 81 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, or shortly after it, also said: after the year 95 AH
   أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّثقة ثبت عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-ʿAwwām al-Jazzār

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبُو الْعَوَّامِمقبول
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyá

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 187 AH, or: 189 AH
   زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عُمَارَةَصدوق يخطئ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Naṣr b. ʿAlī

   Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt); he was asked to take the judgeship (qaḍāʾ) but declinedd. 250 AH, also said: 251 AH
   وَنَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة ثبت ، طلب للقضاء فامتنع
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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