Sunan Ibn Majah 388

Translation

The Prophet was asked about seawater, and he said: "Its water is a means of purification, and its dead meat is permissible." (Hasan) Another chain with similar wording.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْهِسِنْجَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ بْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ حَازِمٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ هُوَ ابْنُ مِقْسَمٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ

  machine translationAbū al-Ḥasan b. Salamah said: ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Hisinjānī narrated to us: Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal narrated to us: Abū al-Qāsim b. Abī al-Zinād narrated to us: Isḥāq b. Ḥāzim narrated to me from ʿUbaydullāh—he is Ibn Miqsam—from Jābir b. ʿAbdillāh that the Prophet ﷺ... and he mentioned the like of it. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Ibn al-Sakan

  إسناده حسن ليس فيه إلا ما يخشى من التدليس

  machine translationIts chain of transmission is good (ḥasan); there is nothing in it except what is feared of tadlīs (obfuscation). Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 420
• ابن السكن سعيد بن عثمان

  هو أصح ما روي في هذا الباب

  machine translationIt is the most authentic of what has been narrated concerning this chapter. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 420
• محمد بن إسحاق ابن منده

  لا يثبت

  machine translationIt is not established. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 420
• Ibn al-Sakan

  حديث جابر أصح ما روي في هذا الباب

  machine translationThe hadith of Jābir is the most authentic of what has been narrated concerning this chapter. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 420

Other narrations of this report

Muwatta' Malik 2-11Musnad Ahmad 7233Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 128

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
   ʿUbaydullāh b. Miqsam

   trustworthy (thiqah), well-knownd. between 101 AH and 110 AH
   ابْنِ مِقْسَمٍ ، يَعْنِي عُبَيْدَ اللهِثقة مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Isḥāq b. Ḥāzim

   truthful (ṣadūq), criticized for Qadarismd. between 161 and 170 AH
   إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ حَازِمٍصدوق ، تكلم فيه للقدر
   حدثني
4. 4
   Abū al-Qāsim b. Abī al-Zinād

   there is no harm in him (laysa bihi baʾs)d. between 191 and 200 AH
   أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ بْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِليس به بأس
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Dhuhlī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), eminentd. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 252 AH, also said: 256 AH, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād al-Naysābūrī said: 257 AH, al-Khaṭīb said: all these views are mistaken, Abū Ḥāmid b. al-Sharqī and others said: 258 AH, and this is correct
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة حافظ جليل
   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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