Sunan Ibn Majah 4260
Death and preparing for it
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حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ الْحِمْصِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ عَنْ أَبِي يَعْلَى شَدَّادِ بْنِ أَوْسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
الْكَيِّسُ مَنْ دَانَ نَفْسَهُ وَعَمِلَ لِمَا بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَالْعَاجِزُ مَنْ أَتْبَعَ نَفْسَهُ هَوَاهَا ثُمَّ تَمَنَّى عَلَى اللَّهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥimṣī
- Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd
- Ibn Abū Maryam
- Ḍamrah b. Ḥabīb
- Abū Yaʿlá Shaddād b. Aws
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“The wise man is the one who takes account of himself and strives for that which is after death. And the helpless man is the one who follows his own whims then indulges in wishful thinking about Allah.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | 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.
- ابن عدي
أبو بكر بن أبي مريم الغالب على حديثه الغرائب وقل من يوافقه عليه الثقات وأحاديثه صالحة وهو ممن لا يحتج بحديثه ولكن يكتب حديثه
machine translationAbū Bakr b. Abī Maryam: strange reports (gharāʾib) predominate in his hadith, and few of the trustworthy narrators agree with him on it. His hadith are acceptable (ṣāliḥah), but he is among those whose hadith is not used as proof, though his hadith is written down.
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 4384
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2459Musnad Ahmad 17123al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 864al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6610Musnad al-Tayalisi 1220al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 191
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim said: 54 AH. Abū Ḥātim and others said: 58 AH. Muḥammad b. Shaddād said: 64 AH. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: it is said: 41 AHشَدَّاد بْن أَوْس الْخَزْرَجِيّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 130 AHضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍثقةعن
- Weak (ḍaʿīf); his house had been robbed, and he became confused (ikhtalaṭa).d. 156 AHابْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَضعيف ، وكان قد سرق بيته ، فاختلطحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AHبَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاءحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 251 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ الْحِمْصِيُّصدوق ربما وهمحدثنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
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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