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Sunan Ibn Majah 3950

The great majority

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حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَانُ بْنُ رِفَاعَةَ السَّلاَمِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو خَلَفٍ الأَعْمَى قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ

إِنَّ أُمَّتِي لَنْ تَجْتَمِعَ عَلَى ضَلاَلَةٍ فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمُ اخْتِلاَفًا فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالسَّوَادِ الأَعْظَمِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-ʿAbbās b. ʿUthmān al-Dimashqī
  2. al-Walīd b. Muslim
  3. Muʿān b. Rifāʿah al-Salāmī
  4. Abū Khalaf al-Aʿmá
  5. Anas b. Mālik
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘My nation will not unite on misguidance, so if you see them differing, follow the great majority.’”

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiVery Daiffawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautVery Daiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniVery Daiffawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 174وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اتَّبِعُوا السَّوَادَ الْأَعْظَمَ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ شَذَّ شَذَّ فِي النَّارِ». رَوَاهُ ابْنُ مَاجَهْ من حَدِيث أنس

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2167al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13659al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15461al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 489al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 397

Narrators

  1. Anas b. Mālik
    a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
    أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
    سمع
  2. Abū Khalaf
    abandoned (matrūk)
    أَبُو خَلَفٍ الْأَعْمَىمتروك
    حدثني
  3. Muʿān b. Rifāʿah
    Soft in hadith (layyin al-ḥadīth), frequently narrates mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 157 AH
    مُعَانُ بْنُ رِفَاعَةَ السَّلَامِيُّلين الحديث ، كثير الإرسال
    حدثنا
  4. al-Walīd b. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AH
    الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسوية
    حدثنا
  5. ʿAbbās b. ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad
    truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 239 AH
    الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّصدوق يخطئ
    حدثنا
  6. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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Mishkat al-Masabih 174

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