Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3291

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to his Companions and recited Surat al-Rahman to them from beginning to end. They remained silent, so he said: "I recited it to the jinn on the Night of the Jinn, and their response was better than yours. Whenever I came to His words, "Which of your Lord's favors will you both deny?" they said: We deny none of Your blessings, our Lord, so all praise belongs to You."

Notes

• Abu Isa said: This is a strange hadith. We know it only through the narration of al-Walid b. Muslim from Zuhayr b. Muhammad. Ahmad b. Hanbal said: It appears that the Zuhayr b. Muhammad whose narrations occurred in Syria is not the one from whom narrations are transmitted in Iraq. It is as though he were another man whose name they mistakenly substituted, meaning because of the objectionable reports they narrate from him. I heard Muhammad b. Ismail al-Bukhari say: The people of Syria narrate objectionable reports from Zuhayr b. Muhammad, while the people of Iraq narrate generally sound hadiths from him.

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ، لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ زُهَيْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ. قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ: كَأَنَّ زُهَيْرَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ الَّذِي وَقَعَ بِالشَّامِ لَيْسَ هُوَ الَّذِي يُرْوَى عَنْهُ بِالْعِرَاقِ، كَأَنَّهُ رَجُلٌ آخَرُ قَلَبُوا اسْمَهُ، يَعْنِي لِمَا يَرْوُونَ عَنْهُ مِنَ الْمَنَاكِيرِ. وَسَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْبُخَارِيَّ يَقُولُ: أَهْلُ الشَّامِ يَرْوُونَ عَنْ زُهَيْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ مَنَاكِيرَ، وَأَهْلُ الْعِرَاقِ يَرْوُونَ عَنْهُ أَحَادِيثَ مُقَارِبَةً.

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3613
• ابن عدي

  هذا لا يعرف إلا بهشام بن عمار ويقال إن يحيى بن معين كتبه عن هشام بن عمار وقد سرقه جماعة من الضعفاء ذكرتهم في كتابي هذا فحدثوا به عن الوليد منهم سليمان بن أحمد الواسطي وعلي بن جميل الرقي وعمر بن مالك البكري البصري وبركة بن محمد الحلبي والحديث لهشام

  machine translationThis is not known except through Hishām b. ʿAmmār, and it is said that Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn wrote it down from Hishām b. ʿAmmār. A group of weak (ḍaʿīf) narrators, whom I have mentioned in this book of mine, stole it and narrated it from al-Walīd. Among them are Sulaymān b. Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī, ʿAlī b. Jamīl al-Raqqī, ʿUmar b. Mālik al-Bakrī al-Baṣrī, and Barakah b. Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī. The hadith belongs to Hishām. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3613
• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث غريب لا نعرفه إلا من حديث الوليد بن مسلم عن زهير بن محمد

  machine translationA strange (gharīb) hadith; we do not know it except from the hadith of al-Walīd b. Muslim, from Zuhayr b. Muḥammad. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 3613
• al-Tirmidhi

  غريب لا نعرفه إلا من حديث الوليد بن مسلم عن زهير بن محمد

  machine translationStrange (gharīb); we do not know it except from the hadith of al-Walīd b. Muslim, from Zuhayr b. Muḥammad. Report a problem

  in سنن الترمذي, p. 3291

Same hadith, other wordings

• Keutamaan Al-Qur'an 53عَنْ جَابِرٍ، رضى الله عنه قَالَ خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَرَأَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُورَةَ الرَّحْمَنِ مِنْ أَوَّلِهَا إِلَى آخِرِهَا فَسَكَتُوا فَقَالَ " لَقَدْ قَرَأْتُهَا عَلَى الْجِنِّ لَيْلَةَ الْجِنِّ فَك
• Misykatul Mashabih 861وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى أَصْحَابه فَقَرَأَ عَلَيْهِم سُورَةَ الرَّحْمَنِ مِنْ أَوَّلِهَا إِلَى آخِرِهَا فَسَكَتُوا فَقَالَ: «لَقَدْ قَرَأْتُهَا عَلَى الْجِنِ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad al-Bazzar 5858al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3766

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Zuhayr b. Muḥammad

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that the narrations of the people of Syria from him are not sound (ghayr mustaqīmah), and he was therefore declared weak (ḍuʿʿifa) because of them.d. 162 AH
   زُهَيْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍثقة ، إلا أن رواية أهل الشام عنه غير مستقيمة ، فضعف بسببها
   عن
4. 4
   al-Walīd b. Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AH
   الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسوية
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abī

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes errors (yaghlaṭ)d. 247 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ أَبُو مُسْلِمٍصدوق يغلط
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

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

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Mishkat al-Masabih 861