Sunan Ibn Majah 97
The Virtue of Abu Bakr Siddiq (ra)
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُؤَمَّلٌ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مَوْلًى لِرِبْعِيِّ بْنِ حِرَاشٍ عَنْ رِبْعِيِّ بْنِ حِرَاشٍ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنِّي لاَ أَدْرِي قَدْرَ بَقَائِي فِيكُمْ فَاقْتَدُوا بِاللَّذَيْنِ مِنْ بَعْدِي وَأَشَارَ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
- Wakīʿ [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- Muʾammal
- Sufyān
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr
- a freed slave of Liribʿī b. Ḥirāsh
- Ribʿī b. Ḥirāsh
- Ḥudhayfah b. al-Yamān
"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'I do not know how long I will stay among you, so follow the example of these two after I am gone,' and he pointed to Abu Bakr and ʿUmar."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن ابن ماجه, p. 80 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn Ḥazm
لا يصح لأنه عن عبد الملك عن مولى ربعي وهو مجهول عن ربعي
machine translationIt is not authentic (ṣaḥīḥ), because it is from ʿAbd al-Malik, from the freedman (mawlā) of Ribʿī, who is unknown (majhūl), from Ribʿī.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 103 - Bazzār
مختلف في إسناده ومتكلم فيه من أجل مولى ربعي وهو مجهول عندهم
machine translationThere is disagreement about its chain of transmission and it is criticized because of the freed slave of Ribʿī, who is unknown (majhūl) according to them.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 103 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
حديث حذيفة حسن
machine translationThe hadith of Ḥudhayfah is good (ḥasan).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 103 - ابن الملقن
هذا الحديث حسن
machine translationThis hadith is good (ḥasan).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 103
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- العقيلي
يروى عن حذيفة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم بأسانيد جياد تثبت
machine translationIt is narrated from Ḥudhayfah, from the Prophet ﷺ, with good chains that are established.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 103 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
سألت أبي عن حديث رواه الثوري عن عبد الملك بن عمير عن هلال مولى ربعي عن ربعي عن حذيفة مرفوعا اقتدوا باللذين من بعدي ورواه زائدة وغيره عن عبد الملك عن ربعي عن حذيفة مرفوعا أيهما أصح قال ما قال الثوري زاد رجلا وجود الحديث
machine translationI asked my father about a hadith narrated by al-Thawrī from ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmayr, from Hilāl, the freed slave of Ribʿī, from Ribʿī, from Ḥudhayfah, raised to the Prophet (marfūʿ): "Follow the two who come after me." Zāʾidah and others narrated it from ʿAbd al-Malik, from Ribʿī, from Ḥudhayfah, raised to the Prophet (marfūʿ). Which of the two is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ)? He said: What al-Thawrī said, for he added a man and transmitted the hadith well.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 103 - العقيلي
يروى عن حذيفة بأسانيد جياد تثبت
machine translationIt is narrated from Ḥudhayfah with good chains that are established.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 103 - Bazzār
لا يصح لأنه عن عبد الملك عن مولى ربعي وهو مجهول عن ربعي
machine translationIt is not authentic (ṣaḥīḥ), because it is from ʿAbd al-Malik, from the freedman (mawlā) of Ribʿī, who is unknown (majhūl), from Ribʿī.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 103
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3663Sahih Ibn Hibban 6902al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8453Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32606al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4456
Narrators
- An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an errorحُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقينعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. Ibn Saʿd said: after al-Jamājim, during al-Ḥajjāj's governorship, Abū ʿUbayd said: 100 AH. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr said: 101 AH. Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī: 104 AHرِبْعِيِّ بْنِ حِرَاشٍثقة عابدعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)مَوْلًى لِرِبْعِيِّ بْنِ حِرَاشٍمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), eloquent, a scholar; his memory changed and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH or 136 AHعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍثقة , فصيح عالم ، تغير حفظه وربما دلسعن
- 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 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- 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 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابدحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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