Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2041
Black Seed (Black Cumin/Nigella Sativa)
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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ:
«عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذِهِ الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ، فَإِنَّ فِيهَا شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلاَّ السَّامَ»،
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Abū ʿUmar and Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Makhzūmī
- Sufyān
- al-Zuhrī
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Use this black seed, for in it is a cure for every disease except as-sam", and as-sam is death.
Notes
إِلاَّ السَّامَ ". وَالسَّامُ الْمَوْتُ. قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ بُرَيْدَةَ وَابْنِ عُمَرَ وَعَائِشَةَ. وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ. وَالْحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ هِيَ الشُّونِيزُ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Bashar Awad Maarouf | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح الترمذي, p. 2041 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
وهذا حديث حسن صحيح
machine translationThis is a good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 2187 - Dāraquṭnī
والقولان محفوظان عن سعيد وأبي سلمة وقول عبد الواحد بن زياد عن حميد غير محفوظ
machine translationBoth statements are preserved (maḥfūẓ) from Saʿīd and Abū Salamah, but the statement of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād from Ḥumayd is not preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ).
in جامع الترمذي, p. 2187
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 10046Musnad Ahmad 10626Musnad Ahmad 10947Musnad Ahmad 25067al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5289al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7552
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), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 249 AHوَسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَخْزُومِيُّثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
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