Sunan Ibn Majah 3988

Translation

“Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.” It was said: “Who are the strangers?’ He said: “Strangers who have left their families and tribes.”

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Albani

  ضعيف بزيادة قال: قيل...

  in ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 795
• al-Albani

  صحيح دون :(قال: قيل...)

  in صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3238

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 3987al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5876al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8724Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35509

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Naḍlah al-Jushamī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the days of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf
   أَبِي الْأَحْوَصِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), whose memory changed slightly toward the end of his lifed. 194 AH, also said: 195 AH, or 196 AH
   حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍثقة فقيه ، تغير حفظه قليلا في الآخر
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Sufyān b. Wakīʿ

   he was truthful (ṣadūq), except that he was afflicted by his copyist, who inserted into his material what was not his hadith; he was advised but did not accept, so his hadith felld. 247 AH
   سُفْيَانُ بْنُ وَكِيعٍكان صدوقا ، إلا أنه ابتلي بوراقه فأدخل عليه ما ليس من حديثه فنصح فلم يقبل فسقط حديثه
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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