Sunan Ibn Majah 4113
The likeness of this world
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَرْوَانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
الدُّنْيَا سِجْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَجَنَّةُ الْكَافِرِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Marwān Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū Ḥāzim
- al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“This world is a prison for the believer and a paradise for the disbeliever.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
ورواه الحماني عن سليمان بن بلال عن سهيل بن أبي صالح عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة ووهم فيه وإنما رواه سليمان بن بلال عن العلاء عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة مرفوعا إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم حدث به حفص بن ميسرة ومالك بن أنس وزهير بن محمد وغيرهم عن العلاء عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة
machine translationAl-Ḥimmānī narrated it from Sulaymān b. Bilāl, from Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, but he erred in it. Rather, Sulaymān b. Bilāl narrated it from al-ʿAlāʾ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, raised to the Prophet ﷺ. Ḥafṣ b. Maysarah, Mālik b. Anas, Zuhayr b. Muḥammad and others narrated it from al-ʿAlāʾ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4234
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 469- وعنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم "الدنيا سجن المؤمن وجنة الكافر" ((رواه مسلم)).
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 2324الدُّنْيَا سِجْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَجَنَّةُ الْكَافِرِ
- Shahih Muslim 2956الدُّنْيَا سِجْنُ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَجَنَّةُ الْكَافِرِ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 10288Sahih Ibn Hibban 687al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6198Musnad al-Bazzar 2505Musnad al-Bazzar 8303Musnad Abi Ya'la 6469
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AHالْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ربما وهمعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), juristd. 184 AH, also said: 180 AH, also said: 182 AHعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي حَازِمٍصدوق ، فقيهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. end of 240 AH, or the beginning of the year 241 AHأَبُو مَرْوَانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْعُثْمَانِيُّصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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