Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3779
The Virtues of al-Hasan And al-Husain, May Allah Be Pleased With Them Both
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ هَانِئِ بْنِ هَانِئٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ
الْحَسَنُ أَشْبَهُ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَا بَيْنَ الصَّدْرِ إِلَى الرَّأْسِ وَالْحُسَيْنُ أَشْبَهُ بِالنَّبِيِّ ﷺ مَا كَانَ أَسْفَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá
- Isrāʾīl
- Abū Isḥāq
- Hāniʾ b. Hāniʾ
- ʿAlī
said: "Al-Hasan is greater in resemblance to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with regards to what is between the chest and the head, and Al-Husain is greater in resemblance to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with regards to what is below that."
Notes
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ
machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan) and strange (gharīb) hadith.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Bashar Awad Maarouf | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن الترمذي, p. 3779 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Dāraquṭnī
يرويه أبو إسحاق واختلف عنه فرواه إسرائيل عن أبي إسحاق عن هاني بن هاني عن علي ورواه إسماعيل بن مسلم عن أبي إسحاق عن رجل قد سماه عن علي وهو هاني بن هاني
machine translationAbū Isḥāq narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Isrāʾīl narrated it from Abū Isḥāq, from Hāniʾ b. Hāniʾ, from ʿAlī; and Ismāʿīl b. Muslim narrated it from Abū Isḥāq, from a man whom he named, from ʿAlī, and he is Hāniʾ b. Hāniʾ.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 4157 - al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث حسن غريب
machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 4157 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن صحيح غريب
machine translationGood, authentic, and gharīb (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb).
in سنن الترمذي, p. 3779
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 2543Musnad al-Bazzar 4213Musnad al-Bazzar 6300Musnad Abi Ya'la 38
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- unknown in condition (mastūr)هَانِئِ بْنِ هَانِئٍمستورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AHإِسْرَائِيلَثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he leaned towards Shiism (kāna yatashayyaʿ).d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة ، كان يتشيعأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، فاضل ، متقنحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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