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Sunan Ibn Majah 4199

Protecting (one's) deeds (by fearing their non-acceptance)

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حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ رَبٍّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ

إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ كَالْوِعَاءِ إِذَا طَابَ أَسْفَلُهُ طَابَ أَعْلاَهُ وَإِذَا فَسَدَ أَسْفَلُهُ فَسَدَ أَعْلاَهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿUthmān b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿImrān al-Dimashqī
  2. al-Walīd b. Muslim
  3. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd b. Jābir
  4. Abū ʿAbd Rab
  5. Muʿāwiyah b. Abū Sufyān
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘Deeds are like vessels. If the lower part is good then the upper part will be good, and if the lower part is bad then the upper part will be bad.’”

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiGoodfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautHasanfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 3404fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Ibn Hibban 339Sahih Ibn Hibban 340al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17950al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5807al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5225

Narrators

  1. Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 60 AH, also said: 59 AH
    مُعَاوِيَة بْن أَبِي سُفْيَانصحابي
    سمعت
  2. Abū ʿAbd Rabb
    acceptable (maqbūl)d. 112 AH
    أَبُو عَبْدِ رَبٍّمقبول
    حدثني
  3. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd b. Jābir
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 153 AH, or 154 AH, or 155 AH, or 156 AH
    عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ جَابِرٍثقة
    حدثنا
  4. al-Walīd b. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AH
    الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسوية
    حدثنا
  5. ʿUthmān b. Ismāʿīl
    acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 241 AH and 250 AH
    عُثْمَانُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّمقبول
    حدثنا
  6. Ibn Mājah
    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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