Sunan Ibn Majah 3903
Seeing the Prophet ﷺ in a Dream
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ الْمُخْتَارِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and ʾAbū Kurayb
- Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿĪsá b. al-Mukhtār
- Ibn Abū Laylá
- ʿAṭiyyah
- Abū Saʿīd
- al-Nabī ﷺ
“Whoever sees me in a dream has (really) seen me, for Satan cannot imitate me.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Nūr al-Dīn al-Sindī
في إسناده ضعف
machine translationThere is weakness (ḍaʿf) in its chain of transmission.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4017
Same hadith, other wordings
- Shahih al-Bukhari 110عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ: «تَسَمَّوْا بِاسْمِي وَلاَ تَكْتَنُوا بِكُنْيَتِي.» وَ«مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ فِي صُورَتِي۔» وَ«مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَىَّ مُتَعَمِّدًا فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 2276مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 3901مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 3905مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي
- Misykatul Mashabih 4609وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم قَالَ: «من رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَا يَتَمَثَّلُ فِي صُورَتِي»
- Shahih Muslim 2266aمَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي
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
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, he was a Shīʿī who practised concealment (mudallis)d. 111 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said in "Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb": also said: the year (127 AH), mentioned by Ibn Qāniʿ, and al-Qarrābعَطِيَّةَصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، وكان شيعيا مدلساعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), of very poor memoryd. 148 AHابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىصدوق ، سيئ الحفظ جداعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)عِيسَى بْنُ الْمُخْتَارِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 211 AH, or: 212 AH, also said: 219 AHبَكْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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