Sunan Ibn Majah 3393
What causes intoxication in large amounts, a small amount of it is (also) unlawful
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍ حَدَّثَنِي دَاوُدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
مَا أَسْكَرَ كَثِيرُهُ فَقَلِيلُهُ حَرَامٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ibrāhīm
- Anas b. ʿIyāḍ
- Dāwud b. Bakr
- Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“Whatever causes intoxication in large amounts, a small amount of it is (also) unlawful.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
ورجاله ثقات
machine translationAnd its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3500
Same hadith, other wordings
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 1865مَا أَسْكَرَ كَثِيرُهُ فَقَلِيلُهُ حَرَامٌ
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 3394مَا أَسْكَرَ كَثِيرُهُ فَقَلِيلُهُ حَرَامٌ
- Misykatul Mashabih 3645وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَا أَسْكَرَ كَثِيرُهُ فَقَلِيلُهُ حَرَامٌ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ
- Sunan Abu Dawud 3681مَا أَسْكَرَ كَثِيرُهُ فَقَلِيلُهُ حَرَامٌ
- Sunan an-Nasa'i 5607مَا أَسْكَرَ كَثِيرُهُ فَقَلِيلُهُ حَرَامٌ
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10870al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12667al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7949Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 24540al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17495al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17496
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضلعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 161 and 170 AHدَاوُدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍصدوقحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 200 AH, Abū Ḥātim Ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī said in « al-Thiqāt » when listing him among them: died in the year 180 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 245 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة حافظ متقنحدثنا
- 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)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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