Sunan Ibn Majah 3900
Seeing the Prophet ﷺ in a Dream
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فِي الْيَقَظَةِ فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ عَلَى صُورَتِي
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- Wakīʿ
- Sufyān
- Abū Isḥāq
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- ʿAbdullāh
- al-Nabī ﷺ
“Whoever sees me in a dream, has seen me in reality, for Satan cannot appear in my form.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3162 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
رواه أبو بكر النيسابوري قال ثنا أبو الأزهر أحمد بن الأزهر ثنا يحيى بن أبي الحجاج ثنا سفيان الثوري عن أبي إسحاق عن الحارث عن علي ورواه الثقات عن سفيان عن أبي إسحاق عن أبي الأحوص عن عبد الله عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وهو الصواب
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4014 - أبو عوانة الإسفراييني
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4014
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 5023al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12436al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17740al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 395Musnad al-Bazzar 4240Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 408
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsufأَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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