Sunan Ibn Majah 3501
Seeking a cure with the Qur’an
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْكِنْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ حَدَّثَنَا سَعَّادُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
خَيْرُ الدَّوَاءِ الْقُرْآنُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd b. ʿUtbah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Kindī
- ʿAlī b. Thābit
- Saʿʿād b. Sulaymān
- Abū Isḥāq
- al-Ḥārith
- ʿAlī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“The best remedy is the Qur’an.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده الحارث الأعور وهو ضعيف
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3611
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- al-Shaʿbī called him a liar in his opinions, and he was accused of Rāfiḍism, and there is weakness in his hadithd. 65 AHالْحَارِثِ ، ج٤ / ص٥٣٩كذبه الشعبي في رأيه ورمي بالرفض ، وفي حديثه ضعفعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes, and he was Shīʿīd. between 151 AH and 160 AHسَعَّادُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَصدوق يخطئ ، وكان شيعياحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 219 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍصدوقحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 261 and 270 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْكِنْدِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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