Muwatta' Malik 18-65
Sighting the New Moon for Beginning and Ending the Fast of Ramadan
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ عَمِّهِ أَبِي سُهَيْلِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
إِذَا دَخَلَ رَمَضَانُ فُتِّحَتْ أَبْوَابُ الْجَنَّةِ وَغُلِّقَتْ أَبْوَابُ النَّارِ وَصُفِّدَتِ الشَّيَاطِينُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- ʿAmmih Abū Suhayl b. Mālik
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
Yahya related to me from Malik from his paternal uncle Abu Suhayl ibn Malik from his father that Abu Hurayra said, "When Ramadan comes the gates of the Garden are opened and the gates of the Fire are locked, and the shayatin are chained."
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Mauquf Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| أبو الوليد الباجي | Soundin موطأ مالك, p. 638 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
هذا خطأ إنما هو عن الزهري عن ابن أبي أنس عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
machine translationThis is an error. It is only from al-Zuhrī, from Ibn Abī Anas, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ.
in موطأ مالك, p. 638 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
وهذا أيضا خطأ إنما هو ابن أبي أنس عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
machine translationThis too is an error. It is only Ibn Abī Anas, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ.
in موطأ مالك, p. 638 - Dāraquṭnī
والصحيح عن مالك موقوف وعن الباقين مرفوع
machine translationThe correct (ṣaḥīḥ) report from Mālik is as a statement of the Companion (mawqūf), while from the others it is traced back to the Prophet (marfūʿ).
in موطأ مالك, p. 638
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 2103Musnad Ahmad 13474Musnad Ahmad 7148Musnad Ahmad 9068Musnad al-Bazzar 9469al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2425
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)d. 74 AH, and from al-Wāqidī: 112 AH, al-Mizzī said: it is undoubtedly an errorأَبِيهِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 140 AHأَبِي سُهَيْلِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقةعن
- 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
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-Tamhīd (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr)
al-Istidhkār
al-Istidhkār
al-Istidhkār
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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