Sunan Ibn Majah 88

Translation

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'The likeness of the heart is that of a feather blown about by the wind in the desert.'"

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What scholars said about it

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• أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري

  إسناده ضعيف ففيه يزيد الرقاشي وقد أجمعوا على ضعفه

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 94

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 19661Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35966Musnad al-Bazzar 3037Musnad al-Bazzar 3187Musnad al-Bazzar 7510

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
   أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Ghunaym b. Qays

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 90 AH
   غُنَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd b. Abān al-Raqāshī

   ascetic (zāhid), weak (ḍaʿīf)d. before 120 AH
   يَزِيدَ الرَّقَاشِيِّزاهد ، ضعيف
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Asbāṭ b. Muḥammad

   Trustworthy (thiqah), though he was considered weak (ḍuʿʿifa) in his narrations from al-Thawrī.d. 199 AH, or 200 AH
   أَسْبَاطُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة ضُعِّف في الثوري
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 234 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍثقة حافظ فاضل
   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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