Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2459

Translation

from the Prophet ﷺ who said, "The wise person is the one who subdues his ˹lower desires˺ and strives toward what is after death. And the weak-˹minded˺ person (a fool) is the one who follows his desires yet holds hope in ˹a reward˺ Allah."

Notes

• This ḥadīth is Ḥasan and the meaning of his saying: "Who lowers himself", is to say the one who reckons with his soul in the world, before he is reckoned with, on the Day of Judgement. It has been related that Umar b. al-Khattab said: "Reckon with yourselves before you are reckoned with and prepare for the Greatest Inquisition. The reckoning of the Day of Judgement is only light for the one who reckoned with himself in the world." And, it has been related that Maymun b. Mihran said: "The slave (of Allah) will not be a Taqi until he has reckoned himself, just as he would account for where his business partner got his food and clothing."

• قَالَ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ قَالَ وَمَعْنَى قَوْلِهِ مَنْ دَانَ نَفْسَهُ يَقُولُ حَاسَبَ نَفْسَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يُحَاسَبَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَيُرْوَى عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ: حَاسِبُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُحَاسَبُوا، وَتَزَيَّنُوا لِلْعَرْضِ الأَكْبَرِ وَإِنَّمَا يَخِفُّ الْحِسَابُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى مَنْ حَاسَبَ نَفْسَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا۔ وَيُرْوَى عَنْ مَيْمُونِ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ قَالَ: لاَ يَكُونُ الْعَبْدُ تَقِيًّا حَتَّى يُحَاسِبَ نَفْسَهُ كَمَا يُحَاسِبُ شَرِيكَهُ مِنْ أَيْنَ مَطْعَمُهُ وَمَلْبَسُهُ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث حسن

  machine translationA good (ḥasan) hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2663
• 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. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2663
• al-Dhahabi

  رده

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2663

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 17123al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 864al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6610Musnad al-Bazzar 3485Musnad al-Tayalisi 1220al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 191

Narrators

1. 1
   Shaddād b. Aws al-Khazrajī

   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 AH
   شَدَّاد بْن أَوْس الْخَزْرَجِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Ḍamrah b. Ḥabīb al-Zubaydī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 130 AH
   ضَمْرَةَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Maryam

   Weak (ḍaʿīf); his house had been robbed, and he became confused (ikhtalaṭa).d. 156 AH
   أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَبِي مَرْيَمَضعيف ، وكان قد سرق بيته ، فاختلط
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AH
   ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخير
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   ʿAmr b. ʿAwn

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 225 AH, in Ibn ʿAsākir's book: the year 224 AH
   عَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍثقة ثبت
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   al-Dārimī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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