Sunan Ibn Majah 3774

Translation

"Put dust on your writings, because it is better, and dust is blessed (being humble in correspondence brings good results)."

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What scholars said about it

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• Mubarakpūri

  أبو أحمد الدمشقي مجهول

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3887
• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  هذا منكر

  machine translationThis is rejected (munkar). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3887
• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  هذا حديث منكر وما روى بقية عن المجهولين لا يكتب

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3887

Other narrations of this report

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26893Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26894Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26895al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3640

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AH
   أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Aḥmad al-Dimashqī

   unknown (majhūl)
   أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّمجهول
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Baqiyyah

   truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AH
   بَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Yazīd b. Hārūn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

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

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