Muwatta' Malik 51-5
The Sunna on Hair
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
أَنَا وَكَافِلُ الْيَتِيمِ لَهُ أَوْ لِغَيْرِهِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ كَهَاتَيْنِ إِذَا اتَّقَى وَأَشَارَ بِإِصْبُعَيْهِ الْوُسْطَى وَالَّتِي تَلِي الإِبْهَامَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mālik
- Ṣafwān b. Sulaym
- Balaghah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
Yahya related to me from Malik that Safwan ibn Sulaym heard that the Prophet ﷺ said, "I and the one who guards the orphan, whether for himself or for someone else, will be like these two in the Garden, when he has taqwa," indicating his middle and index fingers.
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
هذا الحديث قد رواه جماعة عن النبي عليه السلام من وجوه صحاح وحديث صفوان هذا يتصل من وجوه ويستند من غير رواية مالك من حديث الثقات
in موطأ مالك, p. 1674 - Dāraquṭnī
رواه ابن عيينة عن صفوان وأقام إسناده فقال عن أنيسة عن أم سعيد بنت مرة عن أبيها ورواه مالك عن صفوان بن سليم أنه بلغه أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ورواه ابن عجلان واختلف عنه فرواه محمد بن جحادة عن ابن عجلان عن سعيد المقبري عن ابنة مرة عن أبيها والحديث لابن عيينة لأنه ضبط إسناده ورواه محمد بن عمرو عن صفوان بن سليم عن ابنة مرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ولم يذكر أباها ولا ذكر بينها وبين صفوان أحدا وقول ابن عيينة أصح
machine translationIbn ʿUyaynah narrated it from Ṣafwān and established its chain, saying: from Unaysah, from Umm Saʿīd bint Murrah, from her father. Mālik narrated it from Ṣafwān b. Sulaym, that it reached him that the Messenger of God ﷺ said... Ibn ʿAjlān also narrated it, and there is disagreement about him: Muḥammad b. Juḥādah narrated it from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from the daughter of Murrah, from her father. The hadith belongs to Ibn ʿUyaynah, because he preserved its chain accurately. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr narrated it from Ṣafwān b. Sulaym, from the daughter of Murrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, without mentioning her father, and without mentioning anyone between her and Ṣafwān. The statement of Ibn ʿUyaynah is more sound (aṣaḥḥ).
in موطأ مالك, p. 1674
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4748al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4791Musnad Abi Ya'la 4867al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3052al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3060
Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah), a mufti, a devout worshipper, accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 124 AH, or 132 AHصَفْوَان بْن سُلَيْم الْقُرَشِيّثقة ، مفت عابد ، رمي بالقدرعن
- 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
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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