Sunan Ibn Majah 4193

Translation

“Do not laugh a lot, for laughing a lot deadens the heart.”

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• أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

  إسناده صحيح رجاله ثقات

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  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4315

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2305Sunan Ibn Majah 4217Musnad Ahmad 8095al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1649al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7060Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 27207

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdillāh b. Ḥunayn

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 100-odd AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ حُنَيْنٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar

   Truthful (ṣadūq), accused of belief in qadar (free will), and he sometimes erred (wahima)d. 153 AH
   عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍصدوق رمي بالقدر ، وربما وهم
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 204 AH, or 207 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيُّثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Bishr Bakr b. Khalaf

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 240 AH, or after it
   بَكْرُ بْنُ خَلَفٍصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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