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Sunan Ibn Majah 3447

Black Seed (Black Cumin/Nigella Sativa)

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ الْمِصْرِيَّانِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ أَخْبَرَهُمَا أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:

«إِنَّ فِي الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلاَّ السَّامَ».

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Rumḥ and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥārith al-Miṣriyyān
  2. al-Layth b. Saʿd
  3. ʿUqayl
  4. Ibn Shihāb
  5. Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman Wasaʿīd b. al-Musayyab
  6. Abū Hurayrah Akhbarahumā
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "In the black seed there is healing for every disease except sam." al-sam means death, and the black seed is shuniz.

Notes

  • وَالسَّامُ: الْمَوْتُ، وَالْحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ: الشُّونِيزُ.

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 2795fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • Dāraquṭnī

    والقولان محفوظان عن سعيد وأبي سلمة وقول عبد الواحد بن زياد عن حميد غير محفوظ

    machine translationBoth statements are preserved (maḥfūẓ) from Saʿīd and Abū Salamah, but the statement of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād from Ḥumayd is not preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ).

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3554

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 4520وَعَن أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «فِي الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءٌ مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلَّا السَّامَ». قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ: السَّامُ: الْمَوْتُ وَالْحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ: الش
  • Shahih al-Bukhari 5688«فِي الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءٌ مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلَّا السَّامَ».
  • Shahih Muslim 2215a«إِنَّ فِي الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلاَّ السَّامَ»، وَالسَّامُ الْمَوْتُ، وَالْحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ الشُّونِيزُ.»

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 10046Musnad Ahmad 10626Musnad Ahmad 10947Musnad Ahmad 25067al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5289al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7552

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    أخبرني
  2. Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib
    One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AH
    وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبار
    أخبرني
  3. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  4. ʿUqayl
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AH
    عُقَيْلٍثقة ثبت
    عن
  5. al-Layth b. Saʿd
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
    اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
    حدثنا
  6. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥārith al-Miṣrī
    truthful (ṣadūq) but narrates unfamiliar reports (yughrib)d. 241 AH
    وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ الْمِصْرِيَّانِصدوق يغرب
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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