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Sunan Ibn Majah 4016

The words of Allah: "O you who believe! Take care of your own selves."

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَاصِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ جُنْدُبٍ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

لاَ يَنْبَغِي لِلْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ يُذِلَّ نَفْسَهُ قَالُوا وَكَيْفَ يُذِلُّ نَفْسَهُ قَالَ يَتَعَرَّضُ مِنَ الْبَلاَءِ لِمَا لاَ يُطِيقُهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Bashhār
  2. ʿAmr b. ʿĀṣim
  3. Ḥammād b. Salamah
  4. ʿAlī b. Zayd
  5. al-Ḥasan
  6. Jundub
  7. Ḥudhayfah
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“The believer should not humiliate himself.” They said: “How could he humiliate himself?” He said: “By taking on a trial that he cannot deal with.”

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Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiHasanfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautDaiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniGoodin صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 3259fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 2254لاَ يَنْبَغِي لِلْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ يُذِلَّ نَفْسَهُ قَالُوا وَكَيْفَ يُذِلُّ نَفْسَهُ قَالَ يَتَعَرَّضُ مِنَ الْبَلاَءِ لِمَا لاَ يُطِيقُ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 2503وَعَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا يَنْبَغِي لِلْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ يُذِلَّ نَفْسَهُ». قَالُوا: وَكَيْفَ يُذِلُّ نَفْسَهُ؟ قَالَ: «يَتَعَرَّضُ مِنَ الْبَلَاءِ لِمَا لَا يُطِيقُ» رَوَاهُ التِّرْ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an error
    حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقين
    عن
  2. He has companionship (Companion, ṣuḥbah)d. Khalīfah said: during the strife of Ibn al-Zubayr, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in "al-Tārīkh" among those who died from 60 AH to 70 AH, then mentioned him again in the following decade, which is: from 70 AH to 80 AH, Ibn Qāniʿ said: 64 AH
    جُنْدُبٍله صحبة
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
    الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
    عن
  4. weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 127 AH, or 129 AH, or 131 AH
    عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍضعيف
    عن
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
    حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
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  6. truthful (ṣadūq), there is something in his memoryd. 213 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ عَاصِمٍصدوق في حفظه شيء
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  7. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
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  8. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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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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