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Sunan Ibn Majah 3726

Learning about the stars

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الأَخْنَسِ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ مَاهَكَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ عِلْمًا مِنَ النُّجُومِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنَ السِّحْرِ زَادَ مَا زَادَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr
  2. Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
  3. ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Akhnas
  4. al-Walīd b. ʿAbdullāh
  5. Yūsuf b. Māhak
  6. Ibn ʿAbbās
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"Whoever learns about the stars, he learns a branch of magic; the more he learns (of the former) the more he learns (of the latter)."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Sunan Abu Dawud 3905مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ عِلْمًا مِنَ النُّجُومِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنَ السِّحْرِ زَادَ مَا زَادَ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 4598عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ عِلْمًا مِنَ النُّجُومِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنَ السِّحْرِ زَادَ مَا زَادَ». رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَه
  • Misykatul Mashabih 4604وَعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ بَابًا مِنْ عِلْمِ النُّجُومِ لِغَيْرِ مَا ذَكَرَ اللَّهُ فَقَدِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنَ السِّحْرِ الْمُنَجِّمُ كَاهِنٌ والكاهنُ ساحرٌ وال

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 2840al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11308Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26158al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16609

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. Yūsuf b. Māhak
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Bakr b. Abī ʿĀṣim said: 103 AH. Ibn Ḥajar said: 106 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 110 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ and others said: 113 AH. Also said: 114 AH
    يُوسُفَ بْنِ مَاهَكَثقة
    عن
  3. al-Walīd b. ʿAbdillāh
    trustworthy (thiqah)
    الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة
    عن
  4. ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Akhnas
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
    عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْأَخْنَسِصدوق
    عن
  5. Yaḥyā
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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riyad 1671cMishkat al-Masabih 4598b

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