Sunan Ibn Majah 4251
Repentance
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
كُلُّ بَنِي آدَمَ خَطَّاءٌ وَخَيْرُ الْخَطَّائِينَ التَّوَّابُونَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb
- ʿAlī b. Masʿadah
- Qatādah
- Anas
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“Every son of Adam commits sin, and the best of those who commit sin are those who repent.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | GoodAnother source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- ابن عدي
غير محفوظ
machine translationNot preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4375
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2341وَعَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «كُلُّ بَنِي آدَمَ خَطَّاءٌ وَخَيْرُ الْخَطَّائِينَ التَّوَّابُونَ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ والدارمي
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 2499كُلُّ ابْنِ آدَمَ خَطَّاءٌ وَخَيْرُ الْخَطَّائِينَ التَّوَّابُونَ
Other narrations of this report
Sunan ad-Darimi 2769Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35358Musnad Abi Ya'la 2923al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7617
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَةَثقة ثبتعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. between 151 and 160 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَصدوق له أوهامحدثنا
- and he is truthful (ṣadūq), errs in the hadith of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH, also said: 204 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِوهو صدوق ، يخطئ في حديث الثوريحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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