Jami' at-Tirmidhi 4
What Has been Related That The Key To Salat Is Purification
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زَنْجَوَيْهِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ وَغَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ قَرْمٍ عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الْقَتَّاتِ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ؓ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مِفْتَاحُ الْجَنَّةِ الصَّلاَةُ وَمِفْتَاحُ الصَّلاَةِ الْوُضُوءُ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Zanjawayh al-Baghdādī and Ghayr Wāḥid
- al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad
- Sulaymān b. Qarm
- Abū Yaḥyá al-Qattāt
- Mujāhid
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Messenger of Allah said: "The key to Paradise is Salat, and the key to Salat is Wudu'."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | GoodAnother source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- أبو بكر ابن العربي
وقال ابن العربي أصح شيء في هذا الباب وأحسن حديث مجاهد عن جابر وفيه نظر فما أسلفناه من الأحاديث أصح منه
machine translationIbn al-ʿArabī said: The most authentic thing in this chapter and the best hadith is the hadith of Mujāhid from Jābir, but there is some question about it, for the hadiths we mentioned earlier are more authentic than it.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 4 - أبو بكر ابن العربي
إن أصح شيء في هذا الباب وأحسن حديث جابر هذا وتعقبه ابن الملقن فقال وليس بجيد منه
machine translationThe most authentic thing in this chapter and the best hadith is this hadith of Jābir. Ibn al-Mulaqqin took issue with him and said: This is not sound on his part.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 4 - العقيلي
إن حديث علي وأبي سعيد الآتي أصلح منه مع لينهما
machine translationThe hadith of ʿAlī and Abū Saʿīd, which is to come, is more suitable than it, despite the weakness (layyin) of both.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 4 - al-Albani
ضعيف والشطر الثاني صحيح [لغيره]
machine translationWeak (ḍaʿīf), and the second part is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) [by virtue of other chains (li-ghayrihi)].
in صحيح الترمذي, p. 4
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 238Musnad Ahmad 14662al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 2594al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4039al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4041al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 4042
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 الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)أَبِي يَحْيَى الْقَتَّاتِلين الحديثعن
- poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ)d. between 161 and 170 AHسُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ قَرْمٍسيء الحفظحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 213, or a year or two after itالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 258 AH, also said: 257 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ زَنْجُوَيْهِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّثقةحدثنا
- 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
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