Sunan Ibn Majah 3707
Seeking Permission to Enter
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحِيمِ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ وَاصِلِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ أَبِي سَوْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الأَنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ
قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَذَا السَّلاَمُ فَمَا الاِسْتِئْنَاسُ قَالَ يَتَكَلَّمُ الرَّجُلُ تَسْبِيحَةً وَتَكْبِيرَةً وَتَحْمِيدَةً وَيَتَنَحْنَحُ وَيُؤْذِنُ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Sulaymān
- Wāṣil b. al-Sāʾib
- Abū Sawrah
- Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī
"We said: 'O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, (we know) this (greeting of) Salam, but what does seeking permission to enter mean?' He said: 'It means a man saying SubhanAllah, and Allahu Akbar and Al Hamdulillah, and clearing his throat, announcing his arrival to the people in the house."
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 | Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 745 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
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 أبو سورة وذكر كلام أهل العلم عليه
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3819 - Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
أخرجه ابن أبي حاتم بسند ضعيف
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3819
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 4067Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26186
Narrators
- One of the senior Companions.d. 50 AH. Or: 52 AH. Or: 55 AH, also said: 51 AH.أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّمن كبار الصحابة.عن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)أَبِي سَوْرَةَضعيفعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 144 AHوَاصِلِ بْنِ السَّائِبِضعيفعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), has written worksd. 187 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحِيمِ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَثقة ، له تصانيفحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- 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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