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Sunan Ibn Majah 961

Prohibition of bowing or prostrating before the Imam

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حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَ وَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

أَلاَ يَخْشَى الَّذِي يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ قَبْلَ الإِمَامِ أَنْ يُحَوِّلَ اللَّهُ رَأْسَهُ رَأْسَ حِمَارٍ؟

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Ḥumayd b. Masʿadah and Sūwayd b. Saʿīd
  2. Ḥammād b. Zayd
  3. Muḥammad b. Ziyād
  4. Abū Hurayrah
  5. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Does not the one who raises his head before the Imam fear that Allah may turn his head into the head of a donkey?’”

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 795fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

    حديث صحيح مرفوع

    machine translationAn authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith, traced back to the Prophet (marfūʿ).

    in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1013

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 582أَمَا يَخْشَى الَّذِي يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ قَبْلَ الإِمَامِ أَنْ يُحَوِّلَ اللَّهُ رَأْسَهُ رَأْسَ حِمَارٍ
  • Sunan an-Nasa'i 828أَلاَ يَخْشَى الَّذِي يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ قَبْلَ الإِمَامِ أَنْ يُحَوِّلَ اللَّهُ رَأْسَهُ رَأْسَ حِمَارٍ
  • Shahih Muslim 427aأَمَا يَخْشَى الَّذِي يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ قَبْلَ الإِمَامِ أَنْ يُحَوِّلَ اللَّهُ رَأْسَهُ رَأْسَ حِمَارٍ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 1141وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَمَا يَخْشَى الَّذِي يَرْفَعُ رَأْسَهُ قَبْلَ الْإِمَامِ أَنْ يُحَوِّلَ اللَّهُ رَأْسَهُ رَأْسَ حمَار»

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), sometimes narrates mursald. between 121 AH and 130 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍثقة ثبت ربما أرسل
    حدثنا
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AH
    حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.
    حدثنا
  4. Truthful in himself (ṣadūq), except that he went blind and would accept prompting of what was not from his hadith.d. 240 AH, or: 239 AH
    وَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍصدوق في نفسه ، إلا أنه عمي فصار يتلقن ما ليس من حديثه
    حدثنا
  5. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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