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Sunan Ibn Majah 3987

Islam began as something strange

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حَدَّثَنَا حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ أَنْبَأَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ وَابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ سِنَانِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

إِنَّ الإِسْلاَمَ بَدَأَ غَرِيبًا وَسَيَعُودُ غَرِيبًا فَطُوبَى لِلْغُرَبَاءِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ḥarmalah b. Yaḥyá
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. and Hb
  3. ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith and Ibn Lahīʿah
  4. Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb
  5. Sinān b. Saʿd
  6. Anas b. Mālik
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.”

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Zubair Ali ZaiGoodfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiHasan Sahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahih Lighairihifawazahmed0
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Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15110al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5876al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8724Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35509

Narrators

  1. Anas b. Mālik
    a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
    أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. Saʿd b. Sinān
    truthful (ṣadūq), has solitary reports (afrād)
    سِنَانِ بْنِ سَعْدٍصدوق له أفراد
    عن
  3. Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb al-Azdī
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AH
    يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسل
    عن
  4. Ibn Lahīʿah
    Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AH
    وَابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
    أخبرنا
  5. ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
    حدثنا
  6. Ḥarmalah b. Yaḥyā
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 243 AH, or 244 AH
    حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَىصدوق
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

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Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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