Sunan Ibn Majah 3463

Translation

“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying: ‘The cure for sciatica is the fat from the tail of a Bedouin sheep (or wild sheep), which should be melted and divided into three parts, one part to be taken each day on an empty stomach.’”

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• أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

  إسناده صحيح رجاله ثقات

  machine translationIts chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3573
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  الصحيح حديث حماد بن سلمة

  machine translationThe sound (ṣaḥīḥ) report is the hadith of Ḥammād b. Salamah. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3573
• Dāraquṭnī

  أشبهها بالصواب قول حماد بن سلمة والله أعلم

  machine translationThe closest of them to the correct view is the statement of Ḥammād b. Salamah, and God knows best. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3573
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  سئل عن حديث الأنصاري محمد بن عبد الله عن هشام بن حسان عن محمد بن سيرين عن أنس عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في عرق النسا قال هذا وهم رواه الوليد بن مسلم عن هشام بن حسان عن أنس بن سيرين عن أنس قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال هذا خطأ بهذا الإسناد والحديث ما رواه حماد بن سلمة عن أنس بن سيرين عن أخيه معبد بن سيرين عن رجل من الأنصار عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال أبي وهذا أصح

  machine translationHe was asked about the hadith of al-Anṣārī Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh, from Hishām b. Ḥassān, from Muḥammad b. Sīrīn, from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ, concerning sciatica (ʿirq al-nasā). He said: This is an error (wahm). It was narrated by al-Walīd b. Muslim, from Hishām b. Ḥassān, from Anas b. Sīrīn, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of God ﷺ said. He said: This is a mistake with this chain. The hadith is what Ḥammād b. Salamah narrated, from Anas b. Sīrīn, from his brother Maʿbad b. Sīrīn, from a man of the Anṣār, from the Prophet ﷺ. My father said: And this is more sound (aṣaḥḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3573

Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2070Musnad al-Bazzar 6799Musnad al-Bazzar 6800al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3153al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7459

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   سمع
2. 2
   Anas b. Sīrīn

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 118 AH, or 120 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ سِيرِينَثقة
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Hishām b. Ḥassān al-ʿAtakī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Ibn Sīrīn; there is some criticism of his narration from al-Ḥasan and ʿAṭāʾ, because it was said that he used to narrate from them by way of mursal transmission (irsāl).d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or 148 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ حَسَّانَثقة من أثبت الناس في ابن سيرين ، وفي روايته عن الحسن وعطاء مقال لأنه قيل : كان يرسل عنهما
   حدثنا
4. 4
   al-Walīd b. Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AH
   الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسوية
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Rāshid b. Saʿīd al-Ramlī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 243 AH, or after it
   وَرَاشِدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الرَّمْلِيُّصدوق
   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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