Sunan Ibn Majah 4248
Repentance
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حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ الْمَدَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ الأَصَمِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
لَوْ أَخْطَأْتُمْ حَتَّى تَبْلُغَ خَطَايَاكُمُ السَّمَاءَ ثُمَّ تُبْتُمْ لَتَابَ عَلَيْكُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaʿqūb b. Ḥumayd b. Kāsib al-Madanī
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- Jaʿfar b. Burqān
- Yazīd b. al-Aṣam
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
“If you were to commit sin until your sins reach the heaven, then you were to repent, your repentance would be accepted.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Nūr al-Dīn al-Sindī
هذا إسناد حسن ويعقوب بن حميد مختلف فيه وباقي رجال الإسناد ثقات
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4372
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2749Musnad Ahmad 13493Musnad Ahmad 8082Sahih Ibn Hibban 7387
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
- It is said that he saw the Prophet ﷺ, but this is not established; and he is trustworthy (thiqah)d. 101 AH or 103 AH, or 104 AH, also said: 102 AHيَزِيدَ بْنِ الْأَصَمِّيقال : له رؤية ولا تثبت ، وهو ثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who makes mistakes in the narrations of al-Zuhrīd. 150 AH or 151 AH or 154 AHجَعْفَرُ بْنُ بُرْقَانَصدوق يهم في حديث الزهريحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), sometimes had lapses (wahm).d. 240 AH, or 241 AHيَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ الْمَدَنِيُّصدوق ، ربما وهم .حدثنا
- 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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