Sunan Ibn Majah 438
What was narrated concerning wiping the head
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ عَنِ الرُّبَيِّعِ بِنْتِ مُعَوِّذِ ابْنِ عَفْرَاءَ قَالَتْ
تَوَضَّأَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَمَسَحَ رَأْسَهُ مَرَّتَيْنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- Wakīʿ
- Sufyān
- ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl
- al-Rubayyiʿ Bint Muʿawwidh Ibn ʿAfrāʾ
"The Messenger of Allah performed ablution and wiped his head twice."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | 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.
- Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
سنده لا بأس به
machine translationIts chain is acceptable (lā baʾsa bihi).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 474 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
هو حديث مختلف في ألفاظه
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 474 - الزيلعى
نقل الترمذي عن البخاري كان أحمد بن حنبل وإسحاق بن راهويه والحميدي يحتجون بحديثه أي ابن عقيل وهو مقارب الحديث
machine translationAl-Tirmidhī transmitted from al-Bukhārī: Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh and al-Ḥumaydī used to take his hadith as evidence, that is, Ibn ʿAqīl's, and he is close in hadith (muqārib al-ḥadīth).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 474 - Mubarakpūri
في سنده ابن عقيل وفيه مقال مشهور كما عرفت وفي متنه اضطراب
machine translationIn its chain is Ibn ʿAqīl, about whom there is a well-known criticism, as you have learned, and in its text there is inconsistency (iḍṭirāb).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 474
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
مدارها على عبد الله بن محمد بن عقيل وفيه مقال
machine translationThey all revolve around ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl, and there is criticism of him.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 474 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
هذا حديث حسن ثم قال في آخره وعبد الله بن عقيل ضعيف فكيف يكون الحديث حسنا ومداره على ضعيف كما يزعم
machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan) hadith. Then at the end he said: "ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAqīl is weak (ḍaʿīf)." So how can the hadith be good when it revolves around a weak narrator, as he claims?
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 474 - al-Tirmidhi
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 474
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 33al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 941al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 300
Narrators
- junior Companionsd. between 71 and 80 AHالرُّبَيِّعُ بِنْتُ مُعَوِّذٍ النَّجَّارِيَّةُصغار الصحابةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), with some laxity (layyin) in his hadith; it is said that his memory changed towards the end of his life.d. after 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 145 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍصدوق في حديثه لين ، ويقال : تغير بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AHوَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- 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
al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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