Sunan Ibn Majah 3938
The prohibition of plunder
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ قَالَ
أَصَبْنَا غَنَمًا لِلْعَدُوِّ فَانْتَهَبْنَاهَا فَنَصَبْنَا قُدُورَنَا فَمَرَّ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ بِالْقُدُورِ فَأَمَرَ بِهَا فَأُكْفِئَتْ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ النُّهْبَةَ لاَ تَحِلُّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- Simāk
- Thaʿlabah b. al-Ḥakam
“We came across some of the enemy’s sheep and plundered them, and set up our cooking pots. The Prophet ﷺ passed by the pots and ordered that they be overturned, then he said: ‘Plunder is not permissible.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Sound Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4054 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناده صحيح رجاله ثقات
machine translationIts chain of transmission is sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4054
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 5091Musnad Ahmad 18740al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1376al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5271Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 22765al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2604
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. between 71 and 80 AHثَعْلَبَةُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ اللَّيْثِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. 179 AHأَبُو الْأَحْوَصِثقة , متقن , صاحب حديثحدثنا
- 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
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
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