Sunan Ibn Majah 3818
Seeking Forgiveness
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حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ كَثِيرِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ؛ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي؛ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عِرْقٍ؛ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ بُسْرٍ يَقُولُ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ:
«طُوبَى لِمَنْ وَجَدَ فِي صَحِيفَتِهِ اسْتِغْفَارًا كَثِيرًا۔»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd b. Kathīr b. Dīnār al-Ḥimṣī
- my father
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿIrq
- ʿAbdullāh b. Busr
- al-Nabī ﷺ
the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Glad tidings to the one who finds a lot istighfār (seeking of forgiveness from sins) ˹recorded˺ in his Book ˹of Deeds˺."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي
إسناد حسن صحيح
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3931 - أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناده صحيح رجاله ثقات
machine translationIts chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3931
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2356وَعَن عبد الله بن يسر قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «طُوبَى لِمَنْ وَجَدَ فِي صَحِيفَتِهِ اسْتِغْفَارًا كَثِيرًا». رَوَاهُ ابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَرَوَى النَّسَائِيُّ فِي «عملِ يَوْم وَلَيْلَة»
Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30059Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36225Musnad al-Bazzar 3504al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10239
Narrators
- Young Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 82 AH, 87 AH, or 88 AH, 96 AH, also said: 89 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بُسْرِ بْنِ أَبِي بُسْرٍ الْقَيْسِيّصحابي صغيرسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 151 and 160 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عِرْقٍصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 209 AHأَبِيثقة ، عابدحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 250 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ كَثِيرِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ الْحِمْصِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
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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