Sunan Ibn Majah 3235
Wolves and foxes
Show the chain
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ وَاضِحٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُخَارِقِ عَنْ حِبَّانَ بْنِ جَزْءٍ عَنْ أَخِيهِ خُزَيْمَةَ بْنِ جَزْءٍ قَالَ
قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ جِئْتُكَ لأَسْأَلَكَ عَنْ أَحْنَاشِ الأَرْضِ مَا تَقُولُ فِي الثَّعْلَبِ قَالَ وَمَنْ يَأْكُلُ الثَّعْلَبَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا تَقُولُ فِي الذِّئْبِ قَالَ وَيَأْكُلُ الذِّئْبَ أَحَدٌ فِيهِ خَيْرٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Yaḥyá b. Wāḍiḥ
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Abū al-Mukhāriq
- Ḥibbān b. Jazʾ
- Akhīh Khuzaymah b. Jazʾ
“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I have come to ask you about the vermin of the earth. What do you say about foxes?’ He said: ‘Who eats foxes?’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, what do you say about wolves?’ He said: ‘Does anyone in whom there is anything good eat wolves?’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī | Weak Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 | hadithunlocked |
| Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Weakin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 635 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Mubarakpūri
حديث ضعيف
machine translationA weak (ḍaʿīf) hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - محمد بن سعد
لم يثبت حديثه
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - al-Bukhari
فيه نظر
machine translationThere is some criticism in him (fīhi naẓar).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - Azdī
في إسناده نظر
machine translationThere is some question (naẓar) about its chain.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340
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- Mubarakpūri
الحديث ضعيف لا يصلح للاحتجاج
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - Ibn Ḥazm
ضعفه
machine translationHe considered him weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - ابن الملقن
حديث ضعيف
machine translationA weak (ḍaʿīf) hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - al-Tirmidhi
الحديث لا يخلو عن ضعف
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
أشار إلى الضعف
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
سنده ضعيف
machine translationIts chain is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
لا يحتج بمثله لضعف إسناده ولا يعرج عليه لأنه يدور على عبد الكريم بن أبي المخارق وليس يرويه غيره وهو ضعيف متروك الحديث
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3340
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 3245al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3797al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3799Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 24764Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 24770Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 8760
Narrators
- a Companion, the chain to whom is not authenticخُزَيْمَة بْن جَزْء السُّلَمِيّصحابي لم يصح الإسناد إليهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 101 AH and 110 AHحِبَّانَ بْنِ جَزْءٍصدوقعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 126 AH, or 127 AHعَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُخَارِقِضعيفعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 200 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ وَاضِحٍثقة .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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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