Sunan Ibn Majah 4030
Patience at the time of calamity
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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ أُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ
أَنَّهُ لَيْلَةَ أُسْرِيَ بِهِ وَجَدَ رِيحًا طَيِّبَةً فَقَالَ يَا جِبْرِيلُ مَا هَذِهِ الرِّيحُ الطَّيِّبَةُ قَالَ هَذِهِ رِيحُ قَبْرِ الْمَاشِطَةِ وَابْنَيْهَا وَزَوْجِهَا قَالَ وَكَانَ بَدْءُ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ الْخَضِرَ كَانَ مِنْ أَشْرَافِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَكَانَ مَمَرُّهُ بِرَاهِبٍ فِي صَوْمَعَتِهِ فَيَطْلُعُ عَلَيْهِ الرَّاهِبُ فَيُعَلِّمُهُ الإِسْلاَمَ فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ الْخَضِرُ زَوَّجَهُ أَبُوهُ امْرَأَةً فَعَلَّمَهَا الْخَضِرُ وَأَخَذَ عَلَيْهَا أَنْ لاَ تُعْلِمَهُ أَحَدًا وَكَانَ لاَ يَقْرَبُ النِّسَاءَ فَطَلَّقَهَا ثُمَّ زَوَّجَهُ أَبُوهُ أُخْرَى فَعَلَّمَهَا وَأَخَذَ عَلَيْهَا أَنْ لاَ تُعْلِمَهُ أَحَدًا فَكَتَمَتْ إِحَدَاهُمَا وَأَفْشَتْ عَلَيْهِ الأُخْرَى فَانْطَلَقَ هَارِبًا حَتَّى أَتَى جَزِيرَةً فِي الْبَحْرِ فَأَقْبَلَ رَجُلاَنِ يَحْتَطِبَانِ فَرَأَيَاهُ فَكَتَمَ أَحَدُهُمَا وَأَفْشَى الآخَرُ وَقَالَ قَدْ رَأَيْتُ الْخَضِرَ فَقِيلَ وَمَنْ رَآهُ مَعَكَ قَالَ فُلاَنٌ فَسُئِلَ فَكَتَمَ وَكَانَ فِي دِينِهِمْ أَنَّ مَنْ كَذَبَ قُتِلَ قَالَ فَتَزَوَّجَ الْمَرْأَةَ الْكَاتِمَةَ فَبَيْنَمَا هِيَ تَمْشُطُ ابْنَةَ فِرْعَوْنَ إِذْ سَقَطَ الْمُشْطُ فَقَالَتْ تَعِسَ فِرْعَوْنُ فَأَخْبَرَتْ أَبَاهَا وَكَانَ لِلْمَرْأَةِ ابْنَانِ وَزَوْجٌ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَرَاوَدَ الْمَرْأَةَ وَزَوْجَهَا أَنْ يَرْجِعَا عَنْ دِينِهِمَا فَأَبَيَا فَقَالَ إِنِّي قَاتِلُكُمَا فَقَالاَ إِحْسَانًا مِنْكَ إِلَيْنَا إِنْ قَتَلْتَنَا أَنْ تَجْعَلَنَا فِي بَيْتٍ فَفَعَلَ فَلَمَّا أُسْرِيَ بِالنَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَجَدَ رِيحًا طَيِّبَةً فَسَأَلَ جِبْرِيلَ فَأَخْبَرَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hishām b. ʿAmmār
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- Saʿīd b. Bashīr
- Qatādah
- Mujāhid
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- Uba b. Kaʿb
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
from the Prophet ﷺ that on the night of Isrā he smelled a fine fragrance so he asked: “O Jibril, what is this good fragrance?” He said: “This is the fragrance of the grave of the hairdresser and her two sons and her husband.” He said: “That began when Khadir, who was one of the nobles of the Children of Israel, used to pass by a monk in his cell. The monk used to meet him and he taught him Islam. When Khadir reached adolescence, his father married him to a woman. He taught her and made her promise not to teach it to anyone. He used not to touch women, so he divorced her, then his father married him to another woman, and he taught her and made her promise not to teach it to anyone. One of them kept the secret but the other disclosed it, so he fled until he came to an island in the sea. Two men came, gathering firewood, and saw him. One of them kept the secret but the other disclosed it and said: ‘I have seen Khadir.’ It was said: ‘Who else saw him besides you?’ He said: ‘So-and-so.’ (The other man) was questioned but he kept silent. According to their religion, the liar was to be killed. The woman who had kept the secret got married, and while she was combing the hair of Pharoah’s daughter, she dropped the comb and said: ‘May Pharoah perish!’ (The daughter) told her father about that. The woman had two sons and a husband. (Pharoah) sent for them, and tried to make the woman and her husband give up their religion, but they refused. He said: ‘I am going to kill you.’ They said: ‘It would be an act of kindness on your part, if you kill us, to put us in one grave.’ So he did that.” When the Prophet ﷺ was taken on the Night Journey (Isra’), he noticed a good fragrance and asked Jibril about it and he told him.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif Isnaad | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weak Chainin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 804 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- ابن عدي
ثنا عمر بن سنان ثنا الوليد بن عتبة ثنا الوليد بن مسلم عن سعيد بن بشير عن قتادة عن مجاهد عن أبي بن كعب عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم هذا الحديث بطوله ولم يذكر في إسناده ابن عباس قال وهو لا يرويه عن قتادة غير سعيد بن بشير وهو محفوظ عنه عن مجاهد عن ابن عباس عن أبي وقصر الوليد بن عتبة في إسناده حيث أسقط ابن عباس
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4147 - أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده سعيد بن بشير قال فيه البخاري يتكلمون في حفظه وهو يحتمل وقال أبو حاتم وأبو زرعة محله الصدق عندنا ولايحتج به
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4147
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 2904Musnad al-Bazzar 5074Musnad Abi Ya'la 2519al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3835
Narrators
- One of the distinguished Companions (min fuḍalāʾ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 19 AH, or 20 AH, or 22 AH, or 30 AH, or 32 AH, or 33 AHأُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍمن فضلاء الصحابةعن
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 168 AH or 169 AH or 170 AHسَعِيدُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍضعيفحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصححدثنا
- 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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