Sunan Ibn Majah 997
The virtue of the front rows
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ طَلْحَةَ بْنَ مُصَرِّفٍ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ عَوْسَجَةَ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ الْبَرَاءَ بْنَ عَازِبٍ يَقُولُ
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلاَئِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى الصُّفُوفِ الأُوَلِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Bashhār
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd and Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar
- Shuʿbah
- Ṭalḥah b. Muṣarrif
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwsajah
- al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib
“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘Allah and the angels send blessings upon the first row.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
إسناد حديث البراء صحيح رجاله ثقات
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 1049
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 18621Sahih Ibn Hibban 2161al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 741al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5277al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2122
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AHالْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابيسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, 86 AHعَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ عَوْسَجَةَثقةسمعت
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a Qurʾān reciter, virtuousd. 110 AH, or: 112 AH, or: 113 AHطَلْحَةَ بْنَ مُصَرِّفٍثقة قارئ فاضلسمعت
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقنحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AHوَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
al-Aʿlām (Mughalṭāʾī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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