Sunan Ibn Majah 3958
Standing firm during times of tribulation
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّ عَنِ الْمُشَعَّثِ بْنِ طَرِيفٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَمَوْتًا يُصِيبُ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يُقَوَّمَ الْبَيْتُ بِالْوَصِيفِ يَعْنِي الْقَبْرَ قُلْتُ مَا خَارَ اللَّهُ لِي وَرَسُولُهُ أَوْ قَالَ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ تَصَبَّرْ قَالَ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ وَجُوعًا يُصِيبُ النَّاسَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَ مَسْجِدَكَ فَلاَ تَسْتَطِيعَ أَنْ تَرْجِعَ إِلَى فِرَاشِكَ وَلاَ تَسْتَطِيعَ أَنْ تَقُومَ مِنْ فِرَاشِكَ إِلَى مَسْجِدِكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ أَوْ مَا خَارَ اللَّهُ لِي وَرَسُولُهُ قَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِالْعِفَّةِ ثُمَّ قَالَ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ وَقَتْلاً يُصِيبُ النَّاسَ حَتَّى تُغْرَقَ حِجَارَةُ الزَّيْتِ بِالدَّمِ قُلْتُ مَا خَارَ اللَّهُ لِي وَرَسُولُهُ قَالَ الْحَقْ بِمَنْ أَنْتَ مِنْهُ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَفَلاَ آخُذُ بِسَيْفِي فَأَضْرِبَ بِهِ مَنْ فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ شَارَكْتَ الْقَوْمَ إِذًا وَلَكِنِ ادْخُلْ بَيْتَكَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَإِنْ دُخِلَ بَيْتِي قَالَ إِنْ خَشِيتَ أَنْ يَبْهَرَكَ شُعَاعُ السَّيْفِ فَأَلْقِ طَرَفَ رِدَائِكَ عَلَى وَجْهِكَ فَيَبُوءَ بِإِثْمِهِ وَإِثْمِكَ فَيَكُونَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّارِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. ʿAbdah
- Ḥammād b. Zayd
- Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī
- al-Mushaʿʿath b. Ṭarīf
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ṣāmit
- Abū Dhar
“What will you do, O Abu Dharr, when death overwhelms the people to such an extent that a grave will be equal in value to a slave?” I said: “Whatever Allah and His Messenger choose for me, or Allah and His Messenger know best.” He said “Be patient.” He said: ‘What will you do when famine strikes the people so that you will go to the place where you pray and will not be able to return to your bed, or you will not be able to get up from your bed to go to the place where you pray?” He said: “I said: ‘Allah and His Messenger know best, or whatever Allah and His Messenger choose for me.” He said: “You must refrain from forbidden things.” He said: “What will you do when killing befalls the people so that Hijaratuz-Zaitis covered with blood?” I said: “Whatever Allah and His Messenger choose for me.” He said: “Stay with those whom you belong to.” He said: “I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, should I not take my sword and strike those who do that?’” He said: “Then you will be just like the people. Rather enter your house.” I said: “O Messenger of Allah, what if they enter my house?” He said: “If you are afraid that the flashing of the sword will dazzle you, then put the edge of your garment over your face, and let him carry his own sin and your sin, and he will be one of the people of the Hellfire.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | SoundAnother source records this grader as “Hasan” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
يرويه أبو عمران الجوني واختلف عنه فرواه مبارك بن فضالة عن أبي عمران الجوني عن أبي تميمة الهجيمي عن أبي ذر وخالفه شعبة وحماد بن زيد ومحمد بن ثابت العبدي ومرحوم العطار فرووه عن أبي عمران الجوني عن عبد الله بن الصامت عن أبي ذر وهو المحفوظ
machine translationAbū ʿImrān al-Jawnī transmits it, and there is disagreement about him. Mubārak b. Faḍālah narrated it from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from Abū Tamīmah al-Hujaymī, from Abū Dharr. Shuʿbah, Ḥammād b. Zayd, Muḥammad b. Thābit al-ʿAbdī and Marḥūm al-ʿAṭṭār contradicted him, and narrated it from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ṣāmit, from Abū Dharr, and this is the preserved (maḥfūẓ) version.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4074
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 4261Sunan Abi Dawud 4409Sahih Ibn Hibban 6685al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17332Musnad al-Bazzar 3964Musnad al-Tayalisi 461
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 70 and 80 AH, also said: between 91 and 100 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِثقةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)الْمُشَعَّثِ بْنِ طَرِيفٍمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 106 AH or 123 AH or 127 AH or 128 AH or 129 AHأَبِي عِمْرَانَ الْجَوْنِيِّثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), accused of nasb (hostility toward ʿAlī and the Ahl al-Bayt)d. 245 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَثقة ، رمي بالنصبحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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