Sunan Ibn Majah 982
What is incumbent upon the Imam
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ أُمِّ غُرَابٍ عَنِ امْرَأَةٍ يُقَالُ لَهَا عَقِيلَةُ عَنْ سَلاَمَةَ بِنْتِ الْحُرِّ أُخْتِ خَرَشَةَ قَالَتْ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَقُولُ
يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَقُومُونَ سَاعَةً لاَ يَجِدُونَ إِمَامًا يُصَلِّي بِهِمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- Wakīʿ
- Um Ghurāb
- Āmraʾah Yuqāl Lahā ʿAqīlah
- Salāmah Bint al-Ḥur Ukht Kharashah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
“I heard the Prophet ﷺ say: ‘A time will come when the people will stand for a long time and will not be able to find any Imam to lead them in prayer.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | 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.
- Maghlaṭay
هذا حديث في سنده امرأتان مجهولتان
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1034
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 581Musnad Ahmad 27137Musnad Ahmad 27138al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5430
Narrators
- a female Companion; she has a hadithسَلَّامَة بِنْت الْحُرّ الْفَزَارِيَّةصحابية لها حديثعن
- her status is not knownامْرَأَةٍ يُقَالُ لَهَا : عَقِيلَةُلا يعرف حالهاعن
- her status is not knownأُمِّ غُرَابٍلا يعرف حالهاعن
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- 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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