Sunan Ibn Majah 4121
The virtue of poverty
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حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الْجُبَيْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ عِيسَى حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ أَخْبَرَنِي الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ عَبْدَهُ الْمُؤْمِنَ الْفَقِيرَ الْمُتَعَفِّفَ أَبَا الْعِيَالِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Yūsuf al-Jubayrī
- Ḥammād b. ʿĪsá
- Mūsá b. ʿUbaydah
- al-Qāsim b. Mihrān
- ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“Allah loves His believing slave who is poor, does not beg and has many children.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Very 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.
- أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيري
في إسناده القاسم بن مهران قال العقيلي لا يثبت سماعه من عمران وموسى بن عبيدة الربذي متروك
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4242
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16560al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16726al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16727
Narrators
- embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AHعِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلاعن
- unknown (majhūl)الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَمجهولأخبرني
- Weak (ḍaʿīf), especially in his narration from ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār; and he was devout (ʿābid).d. 152 AH, or 153 AHمُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَضعيف ، ولا سيما في عبد الله بن دينار ، وكان عابداحدثنا
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 208 AHحَمَّادُ بْنُ عِيسَىضعيفحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. around 250 AH, or shortly after itعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الْجُبَيْرِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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