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
- Ḥarmalah b. Yaḥyá al-Miṣrī and ʾIbrāhīm b. Saʿīd al-Jawharī
- Abū Ṣāliḥ ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. Dāwud al-Ḥarrānī
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- Abū Zurʿah ʿAmr b. Jābir al-Ḥaḍramī
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥārith b. Jazʾ al-Zubaydī
- 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 Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
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
- 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 questionableعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ جَزْءٍ الزُّبَيْدِيّصحابيعن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf), a Shīʿīd. after 120 AHأَبِي زُرْعَةَ عَمْرِو بْنِ جَابِرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّضعيف شيعيعن
- 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 AHابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهماحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 224 AH, also said: 225 AH, also said: 228 AH.أَبُو صَالِحٍ عَبْدُ الْغَفَّارِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْحَرَّانِيُّثقة ، فقيهحدثنا
- 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 AHوَإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيُّثقة حافظ ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا حجةحدثنا
- 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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