Sunan Ibn Majah 3800
The Virtue Of Those Who Praise Allah
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ كَثِيرِ بْنِ بَشِيرِ بْنِ الْفَاكِهِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ طَلْحَةَ بْنَ خِرَاشٍ ابْنَ عَمِّ جَابِرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
أَفْضَلُ الذِّكْرِ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَفْضَلُ الدُّعَاءِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī
- Mūsá b. Ibrāhīm b. Kathīr b. Bashīr b. al-Fākih
- Ṭalḥah b. Khirāsh Ibn ʿAm Jābir
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
"I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: 'The best of remembrance is La ilaha illallah (None has the right to be worshipped but Allah), and the best of supplication is Al-Hamdu Lillah (praise is to Allah).'"
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
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- M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3913 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3913
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1437"أفضل الذكر: لا إله إلا الله".
- Misykatul Mashabih 2306وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " أَفْضَلُ الذِّكْرِ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَفْضَلُ الدُّعَاءِ: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ". رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيّ وَابْن مَاجَه
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 3383أَفْضَلُ الذِّكْرِ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَفْضَلُ الدُّعَاءِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 846al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14752al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10627al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1834al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1852
Narrators
- 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 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. around 130 AHطَلْحَةَ بْنَ خِرَاشٍ ابْنَ عَمِّ جَابِرٍصدوقسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. between 191 and 200 AHمُوسَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ كَثِيرِ بْنِ بَشِيرِ بْنِ الْفَاكِهِصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 245 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّثقة حافظ متقنحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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