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Sunan Ibn Majah 4088

The appearance of the Mahdi

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حَدَّثَنَا حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْمِصْرِيُّ وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيُّ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو صَالِحٍ عَبْدُ الْغَفَّارِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْحَرَّانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي زُرْعَةَ عَمْرِو بْنِ جَابِرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ جَزْءٍ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

يَخْرُجُ نَاسٌ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ فَيُوَطِّئُونَ لِلْمَهْدِيِّ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ḥarmalah b. Yaḥyá al-Miṣrī and ʾIbrāhīm b. Saʿīd al-Jawharī
  2. Abū Ṣāliḥ ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. Dāwud al-Ḥarrānī
  3. Ibn Lahīʿah
  4. Abū Zurʿah ʿAmr b. Jābir al-Ḥaḍramī
  5. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥārith b. Jazʾ al-Zubaydī
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"People will come from the east, paving the way for Mahdi," meaning, for his rule.

Notes

  • يَعْنِي سُلْطَانَهُ

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiDaiffawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautVery Daiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniDaiffawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

    وفي الزوائد في إسناده عمرو بن جابر الحضرمي وعبد الله بن لهيعة وهما ضعيفان

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4208

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 86 AH, also said: 85 AH, also said: 87 AH, also said: 88 AH, also said: killed at al-Yamāmah, and this is questionable
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ جَزْءٍ الزُّبَيْدِيّصحابي
    عن
  2. Weak (ḍaʿīf), a Shīʿīd. after 120 AH
    أَبِي زُرْعَةَ عَمْرِو بْنِ جَابِرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّضعيف شيعي
    عن
  3. 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
    ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
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  4. trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 224 AH, also said: 225 AH, also said: 228 AH.
    أَبُو صَالِحٍ عَبْدُ الْغَفَّارِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْحَرَّانِيُّثقة ، فقيه
    حدثنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ); he was criticized without valid proof.d. 247 AH, or 249 AH, or around 250 AH, or 253 AH, or 255 AH, or 256 AH, also said: 244 AH
    وَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيُّثقة حافظ ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا حجة
    حدثنا
  6. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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