Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 238

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الأَيْلِيُّ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ ‏ "‏ إِنَّ هَذَا الْخَيْرَ خَزَائِنُ وَلِتِلْكَ الْخَزَائِنِ مَفَاتِيحُ فَطُوبَى لِعَبْدٍ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ مِفْتَاحًا لِلْخَيْرِ مِغْلاَقًا لِلشَّرِّ وَوَيْلٌ لِعَبْدٍ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ مِفْتَاحًا لِلشَّرِّ مِغْلاَقًا لِلْخَيْرِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Hārūn ibn Saʿīd al-Aylī Abū Jaʿfar narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam informed me, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “This good is a treasury, and that treasury has keys. Blessed is the servant whom God makes a key to good and a lock against evil, and woe to the servant whom God makes a key to evil and a lock against good.”