Sunan Ibn Majah 3828
The Virtue of Supplication
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ ذَرِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ عَنْ يُسَيْعٍ الْكِنْدِيِّ عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
إِنَّ الدُّعَاءَ هُوَ الْعِبَادَةُ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ {وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ}
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- Wakīʿ
- al-Aʿmash
- Dhar b. ʿAbdullāh al-Hamdānī
- Yusayʿ al-Kindī
- al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
the Messenger of Allah (saas) said: "Indeed the supplication is the worship." Then he recited: "And your Lord said: Invoke Me, I will respond to you."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | 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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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
سند جيد
machine translationA good (jayyid) chain.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3941
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2230عَنِ النُّعْمَانِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الدُّعَاءُ هُوَ الْعِبَادَةُ» ثُمَّ قَرَأَ: (وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكم) رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَالتِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَال
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1479Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2969Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3372Musnad Ahmad 18352Musnad Ahmad 18391Musnad Ahmad 18432
Narrators
- He and his parents had companionship with the Prophet (ṣuḥbah)d. 60 AH, or: 64 AH, or: 65 AH, or: 66 AHالنُّعْمَان بْن بَشِير الْأَنْصَارِيّله ولأبويه صحبةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)يُسَيْعٍ الْكِنْدِيِّثقة .عن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. before the year 100 AHذَرِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْهَمْدَانِيِّثقة عابدعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- 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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