Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3383
What Has Been Related That The Supplication Of A Muslim Is Answered
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ عَرَبِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ الأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ طَلْحَةَ بْنَ خِرَاشٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ؓ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
أَفْضَلُ الذِّكْرِ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَفْضَلُ الدُّعَاءِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Ḥabīb b. ʿArabī
- Mūsá b. Ibrāhīm b. Kathīr al-Anṣārī
- Ṭalḥah b. Khirāsh
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The best remembrance is: ‘there is none worthy of worship except Allah (Lā ilāha illallāh)’ and the best supplication is: ‘All praise is due to Allah (Al-ḥamdulillāh).’”
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ مُوسَى بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَقَدْ رَوَى عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمَدِينِيِّ وَغَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ
machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: This is a good and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb) ḥadīth. We do not know it except from the ḥadīth of Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm. ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī and more than one other have narrated this ḥadīth from Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim | Soundin جامع الترمذي, p. 3718 | hadithunlocked |
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Bashar Awad Maarouf | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث حسن غريب لا نعرفه إلا من حديث موسى بن إبراهيم
machine translationThis is a good and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb) ḥadīth. We do not know it except from the ḥadīth of Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 3718 - M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in جامع الترمذي, p. 3718 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in جامع الترمذي, p. 3718 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب
machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb).
in جامع الترمذي, p. 3718
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- al-Tirmidhi
[حسن كما قال في المقدمة]
machine translation[Good (ḥasan), as he said in the introduction]
in سنن الترمذي, p. 3383 - al-Tirmidhi
غريب لا نعرفه إلا من حديث موسى بن إبراهيم
machine translationIt is gharīb (isolated). We do not know it except from the ḥadīth of Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm.
in سنن الترمذي, p. 3383
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 1437"أفضل الذكر: لا إله إلا الله".
- Misykatul Mashabih 2306وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " أَفْضَلُ الذِّكْرِ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَفْضَلُ الدُّعَاءِ: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ". رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيّ وَابْن مَاجَه
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 3800أَفْضَلُ الذِّكْرِ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَفْضَلُ الدُّعَاءِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 846al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14752al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10627al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1834al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1852
Narrators
- 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 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. around 130 AHطَلْحَةَ بْنَ خِرَاشٍصدوقسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. between 191 and 200 AHمُوسَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 248 AH, also said: after 250 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ عَرَبِيٍّثقةحدثنا
- 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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