Sunan Ibn Majah
The Book of the Sunnah
كتاب المقدمة
Chapter 2
تَعْظِيمِ حَدِيثِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ وَالتَّغْلِيظِ عَلَى مَنْ عَارَضَهُ
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Ali ibn al-Mundhir narrated to us: Muhammad ibn al-Fudayl narrated to us: al-Maqburi narrated to us, from his grandfather, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: Let me not find any of you being told a report from me while reclining on his couch, then saying: Recite Quran. Any good saying that has been spoken, I have said it.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic ends with a declaration that every good saying has been spoken by the Prophet. The English witness adds the explanatory bracketed question How can you reject what I have said? which is not in the Arabic, so it is not included.
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Muhammad ibn Abbad ibn Adam narrated to us: My father narrated to us, from Shubah, from Muhammad ibn Amr, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah. (Another chain:) Hannad ibn al-Sarri narrated to us: Abdah ibn Sulayman narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Amr narrated to us, from Abu Salamah, that Abu Hurayrah said to a man: Nephew, when I narrate a report to you from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), do not draw analogies for it. Abu al-Hasan said: Yahya ibn Abdullah al-Karabisi narrated to us: Ali ibn al-Jad narrated to us, from Shubah, from Amr ibn Murrah, with a report like the hadith of Ali, may Allah be pleased with him.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source includes two parallel chains before Abu Hurayrahs statement and then an additional transmission note from Abu al-Hasan, which compares the report to a hadith of Ali. All are retained. The wording warns against drawing analogies for a Prophetic report.
Chapter 3
التَّوَقِّي فِي الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Muadh ibn Muadh narrated to us, from Ibn Awn: Muslim al-Batin narrated to us, from Ibrahim al-Taymi, from his father, from Amr ibn Maymun, who said: I never missed Ibn Masud on a Thursday evening without going to him then. I never heard him say of anything, The Messenger of Allah said, until one evening when he said: The Messenger of Allah said... He lowered his head. I looked at him, and he was standing with his shirt buttons undone; his eyes brimmed with tears and his jugular veins swelled. He said: Or less than that, or more than that, or close to that, or something like that.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic preserves Ibn Masuds striking emotional reaction before narrating the Prophetic report. The final phrase gives alternatives or approximations about what preceded; the witness similarly records several possibilities.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Muadh ibn Muadh narrated to us, from Ibn Awn, from Muhammad ibn Sirin, who said: Whenever Anas ibn Malik finished narrating a report from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he would say: Or as the Messenger of Allah said.
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The Arabic presents Anas adding this cautious qualification after finishing each report.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Ghundar narrated to us, from Shubah. (Another chain:) Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us: Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us: Shubah narrated to us, from Amr ibn Murrah, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla, who said: We said to Zayd ibn Arqam: Tell us a report from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: We have grown old and forgotten, and narrating reports from the Messenger of Allah is a serious matter.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source gives two transmission routes: the first ends at Shubah, while the second continues through Shubah, Amr ibn Murrah, and Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla. The Arabic describes narrating from the Messenger as weighty or serious; the English witness glosses this as difficult.
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Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us: Abu al-Nadr narrated to us, from Shubah, from Abdullah ibn Abi al-Safar, who said: I heard al-Shabi say: I spent a year in the company of Ibn Umar, and I never heard him narrate anything from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
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The Arabic explicitly states a full year in Ibn Umars company and that the narrator did not hear him transmit anything from the Prophet during it.
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Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Azim al-Anbari narrated to us: Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us: Mamar informed us, from Ibn Tawus, from his father, who said: I heard Ibn Abbas say: We used to memorize reports, and reports were memorized from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). But if you ride the difficult and the easy, then how far off that is!
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic uses the expression riding the difficult and the easy and ends with hayhat, an exclamation of remoteness or improbability. The English witness adds an interpretation about extremes, negligence, and trustworthiness that is not stated in the Arabic; the translation preserves the source image without adopting that gloss.
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Ahmad ibn Abdah narrated to us: Hammad ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Mujalid, from al-Shabi, from Qarazah ibn Kab, who said: Umar ibn al-Khattab sent us to Kufah and accompanied us, walking with us to a place called Sirar. He said: Do you know why I walked with you? We said: Because of the right of companionship with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and the right of the Ansar. He said: Rather, I walked with you because of a report I wanted to tell you, and I wanted you to memorize it in return for my walking with you. You are going to a people whose hearts contain a rumbling for the Quran like the rumbling of a cauldron. When they see you, they will stretch their necks toward you and say: The Companions of Muhammad! So relate fewer reports from the Messenger of Allah, and then I will be your partner.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic compares the Quran in the people of Kufah hearts to the rumbling of a cauldron and says they will stretch their necks toward the incoming group. Umar instructs them to reduce narration from the Prophet and says he will share in the effort. The source witness uses bubbling and looking up; the source imagery is retained.
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Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us: Abd al-Rahman narrated to us: Hammad ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Yahya ibn Said, from al-Saib ibn Yazid, who said: I accompanied Sad ibn Malik from Madinah to Makkah, and I did not hear him narrate a single report from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic names the Companion as Sad ibn Malik; that form is retained rather than expanded to another name. The report emphasizes that the narrator heard no Prophetic report during their journey from Madinah to Makkah.
Chapter 4
التَّغْلِيظِ فِي تَعَمُّدِ الْكَذِبِ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, Suwayd ibn Said, Abdullah ibn Amir ibn Zurarah, and Ismail ibn Musa narrated to us: They said: Sharik narrated to us, from Simak, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abdullah ibn Masud, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him take his seat in the Fire.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic chain has four narrators together before Sharik. The statement explicitly concerns deliberate lying about the Prophet and uses the emphatic warning to take ones seat in the Fire.
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Abdullah ibn Amir ibn Zurarah and Ismail ibn Musa both narrated to us: Sharik narrated to us, from Mansur, from Ribi ibn Hirash, from Ali, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Do not lie about me, for lying about me leads to the Fire.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic gives the prohibition against lying about the Prophet and says such lying leads into the Fire. This is a parallel warning to the preceding report, through a separate chain and from Ali.
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Muhammad ibn Rumh al-Misri narrated to us: al-Layth ibn Sad narrated to us, from Ibn Shihab, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever lies about me—I think he said deliberately—let him take his seat in the Fire.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic includes a narrator qualification, I think he said deliberately, interrupting the report. This uncertainty is preserved rather than silently incorporating deliberately as certain wording.
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Abu Khaythamah, Zuhayr ibn Harb, narrated to us: Hushaym narrated to us, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him take his seat in the Fire.
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This is another chain for the warning against deliberate fabrication about the Prophet, here transmitted from Jabir.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Bishr narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Amr, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever attributes to me something I did not say, let him take his seat in the Fire.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic warns against attributing to the Prophet words he did not say; it does not add the qualification deliberately found in some parallel reports.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Yahya ibn Yala al-Taymi narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, from Mabid ibn Kab, from Abu Qatadah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say from this pulpit: Beware of narrating too many reports from me. Whoever speaks about me, let him speak truthfully. Whoever attributes to me something I did not say, let him take his seat in the Fire.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic begins with a warning against excessive narration from the Prophet, then requires truthfulness and warns against attributing to him words he did not say. The pulpit setting is stated explicitly.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us: They said: Ghundar, Muhammad ibn Jafar, narrated to us: Shubah narrated to us, from Jami ibn Shaddad, Abu Sakhrah, from Amir ibn Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, from his father, who said: I said to al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam: Why do I not hear you narrate from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) as I hear Ibn Masud and so-and-so and so-and-so? He said: I have not been apart from him since I became Muslim, but I heard him say one statement: Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him take his seat in the Fire.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report explains why al-Zubayr narrated relatively few reports despite accompanying the Prophet since becoming Muslim: he had heard a grave warning about deliberate fabrication. The two unnamed examples are left unnamed as in the Arabic.
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Suwayd ibn Said narrated to us: Ali ibn Mushir narrated to us, from Mutarrif, from Atiyyah, from Abu Said, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him take his seat in the Fire.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
This is another chain for the warning against deliberate fabrication about the Prophet.
Chapter 5
مَنْ حَدَّثَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ حَدِيثًا وَهُوَ يُرَى أَنَّهُ كَذِبٌ
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Ali ibn Hashim narrated to us, from Ibn Abi Layla, from al-Hakam, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla, from Ali, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: Whoever narrates a report from me while thinking it is false is one of the two liars.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic says the narrator who transmits a report while believing it to be false is one of the two liars. The English witness adds an explanation about the inventor and repeater; that gloss is not stated in the Arabic and is omitted.
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Waki narrated to us. (Another chain:) Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Jafar narrated to us. Both said: Shubah narrated to us, from al-Hakam, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla, from Samurah ibn Jundub, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: Whoever narrates a report from me while believing it to be false is one of the two liars.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic gives two routes that converge at Shubah: one through Waki and one through Muhammad ibn Jafar. The warning says the transmitter who believes the report false is one of the two liars, without spelling out the two parties as the English witness does elsewhere.
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Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Fudayl narrated to us, from al-Amash, from al-Hakam, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla, from Ali, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: Whoever narrates a report from me while believing it to be false is one of the two liars. Muhammad ibn Abdullah narrated to us: al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Ashyab informed us, from Shubah, with a report like the hadith of Samurah ibn Jundub.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic gives Ali as the source of the report, then adds another chain through Muhammad ibn Abdullah, al-Hasan ibn Musa, and Shubah, describing it as like the report of Samurah ibn Jundub. The second chain note is retained.