Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 1422

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيَّانِ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ ثَابِتِ بْنِ ثَوْبَانَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ مَكْحُولٍ، عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، أَنَّ أَبَا فَاطِمَةَ، حَدَّثَهُ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَخْبِرْنِي بِعَمَلٍ، أَسْتَقِيمُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَعْمَلُهُ ‏.‏ قَالَ ‏ "‏ عَلَيْكَ بِالسُّجُودِ فَإِنَّكَ لاَ تَسْجُدُ لِلَّهِ سَجْدَةً إِلاَّ رَفَعَكَ اللَّهُ بِهَا دَرَجَةً وَحَطَّ بِهَا عَنْكَ خَطِيئَةً ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Hisham ibn Ammar and Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim al-Dimashqi narrated to us. They said: al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us; Abd al-Rahman ibn Thabit ibn Thawban narrated to us, from his father, from Makhul, from Kathir ibn Murrah, that Abu Fatimah told him. He said: I asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, tell me a deed I can keep to and carry out.’ He said: ‘Keep to prostration, for you do not prostrate once to Allah without Allah raising you by a degree through it and removing a sin from you.’