Sunan Ibn Majah 4200
Protecting (one's) deeds (by fearing their non-acceptance)
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حَدَّثَنَا كَثِيرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ عَنْ وَرْقَاءَ بْنِ عُمَرَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ ذَكْوَانَ أَبُو الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ إِذَا صَلَّى فِي الْعَلاَنِيَةِ فَأَحْسَنَ وَصَلَّى فِي السِّرِّ فَأَحْسَنَ قَالَ اللَّهُ ﷻ هَذَا عَبْدِي حَقًّا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Kathīr b. ʿUbayd al-Ḥimṣī
- Baqiyyah
- And Rqāʾ b. ʿUmar
- ʿAbdullāh b. Dhakwān Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
“If a person prays in public and does it well, and he prays in secret and does it well, then Allah says: ‘This man is truly My slave.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف ابن ماجه, p. 4973 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| البوصيري | Weak Chainin مصباح الزجاجة في زوائد ابن ماجه, p. 4/235 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn Rajab
لعل بقية دلسه عن ضعيف
machine translationPerhaps Baqiyyah committed tadlīs (concealed the source) by narrating it from a weak (ḍaʿīf) narrator.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4322 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
هذا حديث منكر يشبه أن يكون من حديث عباد بن كثير
machine translationThis is a rejected (munkar) hadith; it seems likely to be from the narrations of ʿAbbād b. Kathīr.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4322 - أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده بقية وهو مدلس وقد عنعنه
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Baqiyyah, who is a mudallis (one who practices tadlīs), and he narrated it with the ambiguous wording "from" (ʿanʿanah).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4322
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), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ ذَكْوَانَ أَبُو الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), there is softness in his hadith from Manṣūrd. between 161 and 170 AHوَرْقَاءَ بْنِ عُمَرَصدوق ، في حديثه عن منصور لينعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AHبَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاءحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 250 AH, also said: 247 AH, also said: 255 AHكَثِيرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْحِمْصِيُّثقةحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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