Sunan Ibn Majah 4303

Translation

“Umar bin ‘Abdul-‘Aziz sent for me and I came to him upon the riding animal prepared for swift mail delivery. When I came to him, he said: ‘We have caused you some trouble O Abu Sallam.’ He said: ‘Yes, by Allah, O Commander of the Believers!’ He said: ‘By Allah, we did not want to cause you any hardship, but there is a Hadith which I have heard that you narrate from Thawban, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, concerning the Cistern, and I wanted to hear it directly from you.’ He said: “I said: ‘Thawban, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “My Cistern is (wider than) the distance between Ailah and ‘Aden. It is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey, and its cups are as many as the stars in the sky. Whoever drinks from it will never feel thirst again. The first ones who come to drink from it will be the poor Muhajirin, with dirty clothes and disheveled hair, who do not marry refined women and for whom no doors are opened.” ‘Umar wept until his beard became wet, then he said: ‘But I have married refined women and doors have been opened for me. Certainly I will not wash the clothes that are on my body until they become dirt, and I will not comb my hair until it becomes disheveled.’”

Notes

• حَدَّثَنِي ثَوْبَانُ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ حَوْضِي مَا بَيْنَ عَدَنَ إِلَى أَيْلَةَ أَشَدُّ بَيَاضًا مِنَ اللَّبَنِ وَأَحْلَى مِنَ الْعَسَلِ أَوَانِيهِ كَعَدَدِ نُجُومِ السَّمَاءِ مَنْ شَرِبَ مِنْهُ شَرْبَةً لَمْ يَظْمَأْ بَعْدَهَا أَبَدًا وَأَوَّلُ مَنْ يَرِدُهُ عَلَىَّ فُقَرَاءُ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ الدُّنْسُ ثِيَابًا وَالشُّعْثُ رُءُوسًا الَّذِينَ لاَ يَنْكِحُونَ الْمُنَعَّمَاتِ وَلاَ يُفْتَحُ لَهُمُ السُّدَدُ قَالَ فَبَكَى عُمَرُ حَتَّى اخْضَلَّتْ لِحْيَتُهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَكِنِّي قَدْ نَكَحْتُ الْمُنَعَّمَاتِ وَفُتِحَتْ لِيَ السُّدَدُ لاَ جَرَمَ أَنِّي لاَ أَغْسِلُ ثَوْبِي الَّذِي عَلَى جَسَدِي حَتَّى يَتَّسِخَ وَلاَ أَدْهُنُ رَأْسِي حَتَّى يَشْعَثَ

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  قال أبو زرعة هكذا رواه مصعب وإنما هو عن أبي سلام عن ثوبان عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وقال أبي لا أعرفه من حديث عبد الله بن العلاء بن زبر ولكن رواه يحيى بن الحارث وشيبة بن الأحنف وشداد أبو محمد وعباس بن سالم كلهم عن أبي سلام عن ثوبان عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في الحوض وهو الصحيح

  machine translationAbū Zurʿah said: Thus Muṣʿab narrated it, but it is really from Abū Sallām, from Thawbān, from the Prophet ﷺ. And my father said: I do not know it from the hadith of ʿAbdullāh b. al-ʿAlāʾ b. Zabr. But Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥārith, Shaybah b. al-Aḥnaf, Shaddād Abū Muḥammad and ʿAbbās b. Sālim all narrated it from Abū Sallām, from Thawbān, from the Prophet ﷺ, concerning the Pond (al-ḥawḍ), and that is the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) version. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4428

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6580Sahih Muslim 400aMusnad Ahmad 13496Sahih Ibn Hibban 6459Musnad Abi Ya'la 3199al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4914

Narrators

1. 1
   Thawbān b. Bujdud mawlá Rasūlillāh

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 54 AH, also said: 44 AH, also said 45 AH
   ثَوْبَانُ بْنُ بُجْدُدَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِصحابي
   حدثني
2. 2
   Abū Sallām

   trustworthy (thiqah), he narrates mursal reports (yursil)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبِي سَلَّامٍ الْحَبَشِيِّثقة يرسل
   نبئت
3. 3
   ʿAbbās b. Sālim b. Jamīl b. ʿAmr b. Thawābah b. al-Akhnas b. Mālik b. al-Nuʿmān b. Imriʾ al-Qays

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AH
   الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ سَالِمٍ الدِّمَشْقِيُّثقة
   حدثني
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Muhājir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. al-Haytham b. Khārijah and others said: 170 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: 137 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُهَاجِرٍثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Marwān b. Muḥammad

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 210 AH
   مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Maḥmūd b. Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 245 AH, or shortly before or after it, or 247 AH, or 249 AH
   مَحْمُودُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الدِّمَشْقِيُّثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

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

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