Muwatta' Malik 18-64
Sighting the New Moon for Beginning and Ending the Fast of Ramadan
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَخُلُوفُ فَمِ الصَّائِمِ أَطْيَبُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مِنْ رِيحِ الْمِسْكِ إِنَّمَا يَذَرُ شَهْوَتَهُ وَطَعَامَهُ وَشَرَابَهُ مِنْ أَجْلِي فَالصِّيَامُ لِي وَأَنَا أَجْزِي بِهِ كُلُّ حَسَنَةٍ بِعَشْرِ أَمْثَالِهَا إِلَى سَبْعِمِائَةِ ضِعْفٍ إِلاَّ الصِّيَامَ فَهُوَ لِي وَأَنَا أَجْزِي بِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "By the One in Whose hand my self is, the smell of the breath of a man fasting is better with Allah than the scent of musk.' He leaves his desires and his food and drink for My sake. Fasting is for Me and I reward it. Every good action is rewarded by ten times its kind, up to seven hundred times, except fasting, which is for Me, and I reward it.' "
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
اختلف فيه على مالك بن أنس فرواه عبد الله بن بزيع عن روح بن القاسم عن مالك بن أنس عن الزهري عن الأعرج عن أبي هريرة ووهم في قوله الزهري والصحيح عن مالك عن أبي الزناد عن الأعرج عن أبي هريرة وكذلك رواه القعنبي وأصحاب الموطأ عن مالك وعبد الله بن بزيع لين الحديث ليس بمتروك
machine translationThere was disagreement about it regarding Mālik b. Anas. ʿAbdullāh b. Buzayʿ narrated it from Rawḥ b. al-Qāsim, from Mālik b. Anas, from al-Zuhrī, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, but he erred in saying "al-Zuhrī". The correct version is from Mālik, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah. Likewise al-Qaʿnabī and the transmitters of the Muwaṭṭaʾ narrated it from Mālik. And ʿAbdullāh b. Buzayʿ is lenient in hadith (layyin al-ḥadīth), not abandoned (matrūk).
in موطأ مالك, p. 637
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2112al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 8421Musnad al-Bazzar 8242al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2536al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2539
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
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Commentaries
al-Tamhīd (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr)
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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