Sunan Ibn Majah 455
Washing the (heels and) Achilles tendon
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حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الدِّمَشْقِيَّانِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَةُ بْنُ الأَحْنَفِ عَنْ أَبِي سَلاَّمٍ الأَسْوَدِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ الأَشْعَرِيِّ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ وَيَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ وَشُرَحْبِيلَ ابْنِ حَسَنَةَ وَعَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ كُلُّ هَؤُلاَءِ سَمِعُوا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
أَتِمُّوا الْوُضُوءَ وَيْلٌ لِلأَعْقَابِ مِنَ النَّارِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-ʿAbbās b. ʿUthmān and ʿUthmān b. Ismāʿīl al-Dimashqiyyān
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- Shaybah b. al-Aḥnaf
- Abū Salāam al-Aswad
- Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Ashʿarī
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ashʿarī
- Khālid b. al-Walīd Wayazīd b. Abū Sufyān Washuraḥbīl Ibn Ḥasanah Waʿamriw b. al-ʿĀṣ Kul Haʾulāʾ Samiʿūā Min Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
They all heard the Messenger of Allah say: 'Complete the ablution. Woe to the heels because of Hell-fire."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري | Good Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 492 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Bukhari
هو حديث حسن
machine translationIt is a good (ḥasan) hadith.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 492 - أبو زرعة الرازي
أبو صالح وأبو عبد الله لا يعرف أسماؤهما
machine translationThe names of Abū Ṣāliḥ and Abū ʿAbdillāh are not known.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 492 - أبو زرعة الرازي
أبو صالح لا يعرف اسمه ولا أبو عبد الله يعرف اسمه
machine translationThe name of Abū Ṣāliḥ is not known, nor is the name of Abū ʿAbdillāh known.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 492
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 240bSahih Muslim 240dSahih Muslim 242aJami' at-Tirmidhi 41Sunan an-Nasa'i 110Sunan Ibn Majah 453
Narrators
- the well-known Companion (al-ṣaḥābī al-mashhūr)d. Muḥammad b. al-Muthannā and others said: 42 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 43 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 48 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 51 AH. Ṭalḥah al-Kūfī said: 58 AH. And from Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah: 61 AH, or 62 AH. And it is a clear errorعَمْرُو بْن الْعَاص بْن وَائِل السَّهْمِيّالصحابي المشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. mentioned once in al-Tārīkh: between 71 AH and 80 AH, and once: between 91 AH and 100 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَشْعَرِيُّثقةحدثني
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِي صَالِحٍ الْأَشْعَرِيِّمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), he narrates mursal reports (yursil)d. between 101 and 110 AHأَبِي سَلَّامٍ الْأَسْوَدِثقة يرسلعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)شَيْبَةُ بْنُ الْأَحْنَفِمقبولحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 241 AH and 250 AHوَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَمقبولحدثنا
- 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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