Sunan Ibn Majah 4125
Keeping company with the poor
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْكِنْدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيُّ أَبُو يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ عَنِ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
كَانَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ يُحِبُّ الْمَسَاكِينَ وَيَجْلِسُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَيُحَدِّثُهُمْ وَيُحَدِّثُونَهُ وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَكْنِيهِ أَبَا الْمَسَاكِينِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Saʿīd al-Kindī
- Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Taymī Abū Yaḥyá
- Ibrāhīm Abū Isḥāq al-Makhzūmī
- al-Maqburī
- Abū Hurayrah
“Ja’far bin Abu Talib used to like the poor; he would sit with them and talk to them, and they would talk to him. And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave him the Kunyah of Abul-Masakin (Father of the Poor).”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Extremely Weakin ضعيف سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4956 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إبراهيم المخزومي هو ابن الفضل ويقال ابن إسحاق المخزومي مدني ضعيف
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4246
Other narrations of this report
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); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AHالْمَقْبُرِيِّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلةعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. between 161 and 170 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ الْمَخْزُومِيُّمتروكحدثنا
- weak (ḍaʿīf)إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيُّ أَبُو يَحْيَىضعيفحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 256 AH, or 257 AH, in the book "Zahrat al-Mutaʿallimīn": died (223 AH). Mughulṭāy said: "I have not seen it from anyone else, so it should be examined".عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْكِنْدِيُّثقةحدثنا
- 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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