Sunan Ibn Majah 3508
The evil eye
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو هِشَامٍ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ عَنْ أَبِي وَاقِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
اسْتَعِيذُوا بِاللَّهِ فَإِنَّ الْعَيْنَ حَقٌّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- Abū Hishām al-Makhzūmī
- Wuhayb
- Abū Wāqid
- Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿĀʾishah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
‘Seek refuge with Allah, for the evil eye is real.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده أبو واقد وهو ضعيف
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3618
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 6105Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26922al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10833al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7487al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7589al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9991
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثرعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 145 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him among those who died between 140 and 150 AHأَبِي وَاقِدٍضعيفعن
- memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he changed slightly at the end of his lifed. 165 AH, also said: 169 AHوُهَيْبٌالحافظ ، ثقة ثبت ، لكنه تغير قليلا بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 200 AHأَبُو هِشَامٍ الْمَخْزُومِيُّثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- 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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