Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3371
Something Else About ‘The Supplication Is The Essence of Worship’
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
الدُّعَاءُ مُخُّ الْعِبَادَةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. Ḥujr
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Abū Jaʿfar
- Abān b. Ṣāliḥ
- Anas b. Mālik
- al-Nabī ﷺ
the Prophet said: “The supplication is the essence of worship.”
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ لَهِيعَةَ
machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: This is a gharīb hadith from this route; we know it only from the narration of Ibn Lahīʿah.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | 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.
- Mubarakpūri
ابن لهيعة وهو ضعيف عند أهل الحديث
machine translationIbn Lahīʿah, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf) according to the scholars of hadith.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 3704 - al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث غريب من هذا الوجه لا نعرفه إلا من حديث ابن لهيعة
machine translationThis is a rare (gharīb) hadith from this route; we know it only from the narration of Ibn Lahīʿah.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 3704 - al-Tirmidhi
غريب من هذا الوجه لا نعرفه إلا من حديث ابن لهيعة
machine translationRare (gharīb) from this route; we know it only from the narration of Ibn Lahīʿah.
in سنن الترمذي, p. 3371
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2231وَعَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الدُّعَاءُ مُخُّ الْعِبَادَةِ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيّ
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- Deemed trustworthy (wathaqahu) by the Imamsd. 110-odd AHأَبَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍوثقه الأئمةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 132 AH or 134 AH or 135 AH or 136 AHعُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AHابْنِ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهماعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, also said: 241 AH, also said: 243 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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