Sunan Ibn Majah 4330

Translation

“A place the size of a whip in Paradise is better than this world and everything in it.”

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What scholars said about it

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• أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

  في إسناده زكرياء وهو ضعيف

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4455

Same hadith, other wordings

• Tsulatsiyyat 212حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَمَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا».
• Shahih al-Bukhari 3250مَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا
• Misykatul Mashabih 5613وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: مَوْضِعُ سَوْطٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا فِيهَا ". مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1664Musnad Ahmad 15570Musnad Ahmad 23264Musnad Ahmad 23274al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5845al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17960

Narrators

1. 1
   Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. Abū Nuʿaym and more than one said: 88 AH. Al-Wāqidī and others said: 91 AH. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: he lived a hundred years or more, so on this basis he would have lived until the year 96 AH or after it
   سَهْلُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
2. 2
   Salamah b. Dīnār al-Aʿraj

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Khalfūn said: 132 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī: 133 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 135 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 140 AH. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 143 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said: 144 AH
   أَبُو حَازِمٍثقة عابد
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Zakariyyā b. Manẓūr

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 181 and 190 AH
   زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ مَنْظُورٍضعيف
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Hishām b. ʿAmmār

   Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصح
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ibn Mājah

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

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