Sunan Ibn Majah 3498

Translation

“Whoever applies kohl, let him do it an odd number of times. Whoever does that has done well, and whoever does not, it does not matter.”

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What scholars said about it

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• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  قال أبو عمرو بن حزم ليس إسناده بالقائم مجهولان يعنون حصينا فيه الحمراني وأبا سعيد الخير

  machine translationAbū ʿAmr b. Ḥazm said: Its chain is not sound; two are unknown (majhūlān), meaning Ḥuṣayn al-Ḥimyarī in it and Abū Saʿīd al-Khayr. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3608
• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  ليس إسناده بالقائم مجهولان يعنون حصينا فيه الحمراني وأبا سعيد الخير

  machine translationIts chain is not sound; two are unknown (majhūlān), meaning Ḥuṣayn al-Ḥimrānī in it and Abū Saʿīd al-Khayr. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3608
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديث ليس بالقوي لأن إسناده ليس بالقائم فيه مجهولون

  machine translationA hadith that is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), because its chain of transmission is not sound; there are unknown narrators (majhūlūn) in it. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3608
• Dāraquṭnī

  والصحيح عن أبي سعيد

  machine translationAnd the sound report (al-ṣaḥīḥ) is from Abū Saʿīd. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3608

Same hadith, other wordings

• Sunan Abu Dawud 35مَنِ اكْتَحَلَ فَلْيُوتِرْ مَنْ فَعَلَ فَقَدْ أَحْسَنَ وَمَنْ لاَ فَلاَ حَرَجَ وَمَنِ اسْتَجْمَرَ فَلْيُوتِرْ مَنْ فَعَلَ فَقَدْ أَحْسَنَ وَمَنْ لاَ فَلاَ حَرَجَ وَمَنْ أَكَلَ فَمَا تَخَلَّلَ فَلْيَلْفِظْ وَمَا لاَكَ بِلِسَانِهِ فَلْيَبْتَل
• Bulughul Maram 99{ مَنْ أَتَى اَلْغَائِطَ فَلْيَسْتَتِرْ }
• Misykatul Mashabih 352وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَنِ اكْتَحَلَ فَلْيُوتِرْ مَنْ فَعَلَ فَقَدْ أَحْسَنَ وَمَنْ لَا فَلَا حَرَجَ وَمَنِ اسْتَجْمَرَ فَلْيُوتِرْ مَنْ فَعَلَ ف

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 338Musnad Ahmad 17426Musnad Ahmad 17427Musnad Ahmad 8611Musnad Ahmad 8677

Narrators

1. 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
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Saʿd al-Khayr

   unknown (majhūl)
   أَبِي سَعْدِ الْخَيْرِمجهول
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥuṣayn al-Ḥimyarī

   unknown (majhūl)
   حُصَيْنٍ الْحِمْيَرِيِّمجهول
   عن
4. 4
   Thawr b. Yazīd

   trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), except that he held the Qadarī viewd. al-Tirmidhī said: 150 AH. From al-Haytham b. ʿAdī: 151 AH. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā said: I was informed that he died in the year 152 AH. Ibn Saʿd and a group said: 153 AH. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr and others said: 155 AH
   ثَوْرُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت ، إلا أنه يرى القدر
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Malik b. al-Ṣabbāḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 199 AH or 200 AH
   عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), has unusual narrations (gharāʾib) and worksd. Ibn Ḥibbān said: before 240 AH. Abū al-Shaykh said: 246 AH, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar said: 250 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة له غرائب وتصانيف
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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