Sunan Ibn Majah
The Book On The Mosques And The Congregations
كتاب المساجد والجماعات
Chapter 17
التَّغْلِيظِ فِي التَّخَلُّفِ عَنِ الْجَمَاعَةِ
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
'Uthman ibn Isma'il al-Hudhali al-Dimashqi narrated to us: Al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us, from Ibn Abi Dhi'b, from al-Zibriqan ibn 'Amr al-Damri, from Usamah ibn Zayd, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Men must stop abandoning the congregation, or I will certainly burn their houses.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The emphatic future warning is translated as a threat; the source does not say that the houses were actually burned.
Chapter 18
صَلاَةِ الْعِشَاءِ وَالْفَجْرِ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ
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'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ibrahim al-Dimashqi narrated to us: Al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us: Al-Awza'i narrated to us: Yahya ibn Abi Kathir narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi narrated to me: 'Isa ibn Talhah narrated to me: 'A'ishah narrated to me, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘If people knew what there is in the 'Isha and Fajr prayers, they would come to them even crawling.’
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah informed us: Abu Mu'awiyah informed us, from al-A'mash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘The prayers most burdensome for the hypocrites are the 'Isha and Fajr prayers. If they knew what reward they contain, they would come to them even crawling.’
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'Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Isma'il ibn 'Ayyash narrated to us, from 'Umarah ibn Ghaziyyah, from Anas ibn Malik, from 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he used to say: ‘Whoever prays in congregation in a mosque for forty nights without missing the first rak'ah of the 'Isha prayer will be granted by Allah, through it, release from the Fire.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source's condition specifies forty nights, congregational prayer in a mosque, and not missing the first rak'ah of 'Isha.
Chapter 19
لُزُومِ الْمَسَاجِدِ وَانْتِظَارِ الصَّلاَةِ
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us, from al-A'mash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘When one of you enters the mosque, he is in prayer for as long as the prayer keeps him there. The angels invoke blessings upon one of you for as long as he remains in the place where he prayed, saying: “O Allah, forgive him; O Allah, have mercy on him; O Allah, accept his repentance”—so long as he does not invalidate his ablution or cause harm there.’’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source gives the angels' three-part supplication and two conditions: the person does not break his ablution and does not cause harm in the place.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Shababah narrated to us: Ibn Abi Dhi'b narrated to us, from al-Maqburi, from Sa'id ibn Yasar, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘Whenever a Muslim makes the mosques his regular places for prayer and remembrance, Allah receives him with delight, just as a family welcomes an absent loved one when he returns to them.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source uses the image of a family joyfully welcoming a member who has been away; ‘receives him with delight’ conveys the parallel verb for Allah.
إِلاَّ تَبَشْبَشَ اللَّهُ لَهُ كَمَا يَتَبَشْبَشُ أَهْلُ الْغَائِبِ بِغَائِبِهِمْ إِذَا قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِمْ
The source uses a vivid human comparison for divine reception; the translation preserves its figurative parallel without further interpretation.
Should the metaphor be rendered more literally or with an idiomatic phrase such as ‘rejoices at his coming’?
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Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Darimi narrated to us: Al-Nadr ibn Shumayl narrated to us: Hammad narrated to us, from Thabit, from Abu Ayyub, from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr, who said: We prayed Maghrib with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Some left, and some stayed after the prayer. The Messenger of Allah came back hurriedly, breathing hard, with his knees exposed, and said: ‘Rejoice! Your Lord has opened one of the gates of heaven, boasting of you before the angels: “Look at My servants: they have completed one obligation and are waiting for another.”’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report distinguishes those who departed after Maghrib from those who stayed awaiting the next prayer. The phrase ‘your Lord’ and the quoted divine speech are retained as in the source.
قَدْ حَفَزَهُ النَّفَسُ
The phrase describes his breath as pressed/strained; the precise physical nuance is compact.
Can the physical description be rendered more precisely from the classical usage?
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Abu Kurayb narrated to us: Rishdin ibn Sa'd narrated to us, from 'Amr ibn al-Harith, from Darraj, from Abu al-Haytham, from Abu Sa'id, from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: ‘When you see a man regularly frequenting the mosques, bear witness for him that he has faith.’ Allah, the Exalted, says: ‘Only those maintain Allah's mosques who believe in Allah’—through the end of the verse.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source quotes the beginning of a Quranic verse and then says al-ayah (‘the verse’), indicating the quotation continues through the verse's end.