Sunan Ibn Majah 3278
When a morsel falls
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حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ مَعْقِلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ
بَيْنَمَا هُوَ يَتَغَدَّى إِذْ سَقَطَتْ مِنْهُ لُقْمَةٌ فَتَنَاوَلَهَا فَأَمَاطَ مَا كَانَ فِيهَا مِنْ أَذًى فَأَكَلَهَا فَتَغَامَزَ بِهِ الدَّهَاقِينُ فَقِيلَ أَصْلَحَ اللَّهُ الأَمِيرَ إِنَّ هَؤُلاَءِ الدَّهَاقِينَ يَتَغَامَزُونَ مِنْ أَخْذِكَ اللُّقْمَةَ وَبَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ هَذَا الطَّعَامُ قَالَ إِنِّي لَمْ أَكُنْ لأَدَعَ مَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِهَذِهِ الأَعَاجِمِ إِنَّا كُنَّا نَأْمُرُ أَحَدَنَا إِذَا سَقَطَتْ لُقْمَتُهُ أَنْ يَأْخُذَهَا فَيُمِيطَ مَا كَانَ فِيهَا مِنْ أَذًى وَيَأْكُلَهَا وَلاَ يَدَعَهَا لِلشَّيْطَانِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Sūwayd b. Saʿīd
- Yazīd b. Zurayʿ
- Yūnus
- al-Ḥasan
- Maʿqil b. Yasār
“While (he) was eating lunch, a morsel of food fell on the floor. He picked it up, removed whatever dirt had gotten onto it, and ate it. The villagers and farmers winked at one another (finding it odd) and it was said: ‘May Allah help the chief! These villagers and farmers are winking at one another because you picked up a morsel (from the ground) when you have this food in front of you.’ He said: ‘I am not going to give up something I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for these non- Arabs. We were told, if one of us dropped a morsel of food, to pick it up, remove whatever dirt was on it, and eat it, and not to leave it for Satan.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif Isnaad | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif Isnaad | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
الحسن لم يسمع من معقل بن يسار
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3385 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
إنما يرويه عن يونس عن الحسن أن معقل قال نهى
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3385
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2033dJami' at-Tirmidhi 1802Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1803Sahih Ibn Hibban 5253al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6753al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7126
Narrators
- a Companion, among those who pledged allegiance under the Treed. 62 AH, or at the end of Muʿāwiyah's caliphate, also said: in the caliphate of Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah, or between 60 AH and 70 AHمَعْقِلُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ الْمُزَنِيُّصحابي ، ممن بايع تحت الشجرةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), virtuous, scrupulous.d. 138 AH, or 139 AH, or 140 AHيُونُسَثقة ثبت فاضل ورععن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .حدثنا
- Truthful in himself (ṣadūq), except that he went blind and would accept prompting of what was not from his hadith.d. 240 AH, or: 239 AHسُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍصدوق في نفسه ، إلا أنه عمي فصار يتلقن ما ليس من حديثهحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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