Sunan Ibn Majah 3905
Seeing the Prophet ﷺ in a Dream
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ أَبُو عَوَانَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ عَمَّارٍ هُوَ الدُّهْنِيُّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá
- Abū al-Walīd
- Abū ʿAwānah
- Jābir
- ʿAmmār
- al-Duhnī
- Saʿīd b. Jubayr
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“Whoever sees me in a dream has (really) sees me, for Satan cannot imitate me.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده جابر الجعفي وهو متهم
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Jābir al-Juʿfī, who is accused (muttaham).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4019
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 3903مَنْ 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
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), inclined to Shīʿismd. 133 AHعَمَّارٍ ، هُوَ الدُّهْنِيُّصدوق يتشيععن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), a Rāfiḍīd. 127 AH, or 128 AH, 132 AHجَابِرٍضعيف رافضيعن
- trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AHأَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعةقال
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 226 AH, or 227 AH, also said: 229 AHأَبُو الْوَلِيدِثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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 correctمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة حافظ جليلحدثنا
- 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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