Sunan Ibn Majah 3767

Translation

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw a man chasing a pigeon and said: 'A devil chasing a devil.'"

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What scholars said about it

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• أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

  في إسناده رواد بن الجراح وهو ضعيف

  machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Rawwād b. al-Jarrāḥ, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3880

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4940Sunan Ibn Majah 3764Sunan Ibn Majah 3765al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21002Musnad al-Bazzar 7332Musnad al-Bazzar 7998

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

   unknown (majhūl)
   أَبُو سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيُّمجهول
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Rawwād b. al-Jarrāḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq), his memory became confused at the end, so he was abandoned, and there is severe weakness in his narration from al-Thawrīd. between 211 and 220 AH
   رَوَّادُ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِصدوق ، اختلط بآخره فترك ، وفي حديثه عن الثوري ضعف شديد
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Khalaf al-ʿAsqalānī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 260 AH
   أَبُو نَصْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَلَفٍ الْعَسْقَلَانِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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