Sunan Ibn Majah 972
Two are a congregation
Show the chain
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ بَدْرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَمْرِو بْنِ جَرَادٍ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
اثْنَانِ فَمَا فَوْقَهُمَا جَمَاعَةٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hishām b. ʿAmmār
- al-Rabīʿ b. Badr
- his father
- Jaddih ʿAmr b. Jarād
- Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Two or more people are a congregation.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Very Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn Ḥazm
خبر ساقط
machine translationA fallen report (khabar sāqiṭ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024 - Ibn Rajab
إسناد ضعيف
machine translationThe chain of transmission is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024 - al-Dhahabi
إسناده ضعيف الربيع بن بدر بن عمرو عليلة وهو واه وأبوه وجده مجهولان قاله الذهبي وعجيب من الحاكم في إخراجه له في مستدركه لكنه سكت عنه فلم يصححه ولم يضعفه
machine translationIts chain is weak (ḍaʿīf). al-Rabīʿ b. Badr b. ʿAmr, known as ʿUlayyah, is feeble (wāhin), and his father and grandfather are both unknown (majhūl), as stated by al-Dhahabī. It is surprising that al-Ḥākim included it in his Mustadrak, though he remained silent about it, neither authenticating it nor weakening it.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024 - Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
في إسناده الربيع وهو ضعيف
machine translationIn its chain is al-Rabīʿ, who is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
الربيع وولده بدر ضعيفان
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024 - ابن عدي
وهذا لا أعلم يرويه بهذا الإسناد غير الربيع بن بدر
machine translationI do not know of anyone who narrates this with this chain other than al-Rabīʿ b. Badr.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
وفيه الربيع بن بدر وهو ضعيف وأبوه مجهول
machine translationIn it is al-Rabīʿ b. Badr, who is weak (ḍaʿīf), and his father is unknown (majhūl).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024 - Ibn Ḥazm
هذا خبر ساقط
machine translationThis report is worthless (sāqiṭ).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024 - الزيلعى
كلها ضعيفة
machine translationAll of them are weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1024
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1081وَعَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اثْنَانِ فَمَا فَوْقهمَا جمَاعَة». رَوَاهُ ابْن مَاجَه
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6630Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8902Sunan al-Daraqutni 1087Sunan al-Daraqutni 1088al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7957
Narrators
- 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 AHأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- unknown (majhūl)عَمْرِو بْنِ جَرَادٍمجهولعن
- unknown (majhūl)أَبِيهِمجهولعن
- abandoned (matrūk)d. 178 AHالرَّبِيعُ بْنُ بَدْرٍمتروكحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصححدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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