Sunan Ibn Majah 3765
Playing with Pigeons
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا الأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ رَأَى رَجُلاً يَتْبَعُ حَمَامَةً فَقَالَ شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- al-Aswad b. ʿĀmir
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmr
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah
"A male devil following a female devil."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
والمرسل أصح
machine translationThe mursal version (the report narrated without the Companion in the chain) is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3878
Same hadith, other wordings
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 3766أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَأَى رَجُلاً وَرَاءَ حَمَامَةٍ فَقَالَ شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً
- Misykatul Mashabih 4506وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَأَى رَجُلًا يَتْبَعُ حَمَامَةً فَقَالَ: «شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً». رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَالْبِيهَقِيُّ فِي شُعَبِ الْإِيم
- Sunan Abu Dawud 4940أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَأَى رَجُلاً يَتْبَعُ حَمَامَةً فَقَالَ شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 3764Sahih Ibn Hibban 5874al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21002Musnad al-Bazzar 7332Musnad al-Bazzar 7998
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍوصدوق له أوهامعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH, or 208 AHالْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة 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.