{ "meta": { "api": "thehadithproject.com/api/v0", "status": "prototype", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (data); see /blueprint#licensing", "generated": "2026-10-23T12:48:34.640Z" }, "id": "thp:bukhari:1", "fingerprint": "sha256:6fd00f9ec66e", "slug": "actions-by-intentions", "title": "Actions are by intentions", "titleAr": "إنما الأعمال بالنيات", "takeaway": "What a deed is worth depends on why it was done. The same act can be devotion or self-interest depending on the intention behind it. The Prophet ﷺ gives the example of migrating to Madinah: done for God it is a sacred act; done to marry someone or make money it is only that.", "status": { "band": "sahih", "label": "Sahih", "line": "Agreed upon: recorded by both al-Bukhari and Muslim, and accepted by every scholar who examined it. Al-Bukhari opened his Sahih with it in place of a preface." }, "primary": { "cite": "bukhari:1", "collection": "Sahih al-Bukhari", "collectionAr": "صحيح البخاري", "numbering": "Muhammad Fu'ad Abd al-Baqi numbering, as used in Fath al-Bari and on sunnah.com", "number": "1", "bookChapter": "Book of Revelation, chapter 1", "chain": [ "al-bukhari", "al-humaydi", "sufyan-ibn-uyaynah", "yahya-ibn-said", "muhammad-ibn-ibrahim-al-taymi", "alqama-ibn-waqqas", "umar-ibn-al-khattab" ], "links": [ { "from": "prophet", "to": "umar-ibn-al-khattab", "sighaAr": "سمعتُ رسول الله ﷺ يقول", "sighaEn": "I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ say", "kind": "sama" }, { "from": "umar-ibn-al-khattab", "to": "alqama-ibn-waqqas", "sighaAr": "سمعتُ عمر على المنبر", "sighaEn": "I heard Umar, on the pulpit", "kind": "sama" }, { "from": "alqama-ibn-waqqas", "to": "muhammad-ibn-ibrahim-al-taymi", "sighaAr": "أنه سمع علقمة يقول", "sighaEn": "that he heard Alqama say", "kind": "sama" }, { "from": "muhammad-ibn-ibrahim-al-taymi", "to": "yahya-ibn-said", "sighaAr": "أخبرني", "sighaEn": "informed me", "kind": "ikhbar" }, { "from": "yahya-ibn-said", "to": "sufyan-ibn-uyaynah", "sighaAr": "حدثنا", "sighaEn": "narrated to us", "kind": "sama" }, { "from": "sufyan-ibn-uyaynah", "to": "al-humaydi", "sighaAr": "حدثنا", "sighaEn": "narrated to us", "kind": "sama" }, { "from": "al-humaydi", "to": "al-bukhari", "sighaAr": "حدثنا", "sighaEn": "narrated to us", "kind": "sama" } ], "isnadAr": "حَدَّثَنَا الْحُمَيْدِيُّ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الأَنْصَارِيُّ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيُّ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنَ وَقَّاصٍ اللَّيْثِيَّ، يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رضى الله عنه عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ", "matnAr": "إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ، وَإِنَّمَا لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى، فَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى دُنْيَا يُصِيبُهَا أَوْ إِلَى امْرَأَةٍ يَنْكِحُهَا فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى مَا هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِ", "matnEn": "Actions are only by intentions, and each person will have only what they intended. So whoever migrated for worldly gain, or for a woman to marry, their migration was for whatever they migrated to.", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:1" }, "also": [ { "cite": "bukhari:54", "label": "Sahih al-Bukhari 54", "note": "Book of Faith", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:54" }, { "cite": "bukhari:2529", "label": "Sahih al-Bukhari 2529", "note": "Book of Manumission", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2529" }, { "cite": "bukhari:3898", "label": "Sahih al-Bukhari 3898", "note": "Merits of the Ansar", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3898" }, { "cite": "bukhari:5070", "label": "Sahih al-Bukhari 5070", "note": "Book of Marriage", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5070" }, { "cite": "bukhari:6689", "label": "Sahih al-Bukhari 6689", "note": "Book of Oaths and Vows", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6689" }, { "cite": "bukhari:6953", "label": "Sahih al-Bukhari 6953", "note": "Book of Tricks", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6953" }, { "cite": "muslim:1907a", "label": "Sahih Muslim 1907a", "note": "via Malik; 1907b adds eight further routes from Yahya (al-Layth, Hammad ibn Zayd, Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi, Abu Khalid al-Ahmar, Hafs ibn Ghiyath, Yazid ibn Harun, Ibn al-Mubarak, Sufyan ibn Uyaynah)", "url": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:1907a" }, { "cite": "abudawud:2201", "label": "Sunan Abi Dawud 2201", "url": "https://sunnah.com/abudawud:2201" }, { "cite": "tirmidhi:1647", "label": "Jami' al-Tirmidhi 1647", "note": "al-Tirmidhi: hasan sahih", "url": "https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:1647" }, { "cite": "nasai:75", "label": "Sunan al-Nasa'i 75", "url": "https://sunnah.com/nasai:75" }, { "cite": "ibnmajah:4227", "label": "Sunan Ibn Majah 4227", "url": "https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:4227" }, { "cite": "nawawi40:1", "label": "al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith, 1", "url": "https://sunnah.com/nawawi40:1" } ], "verdicts": [ { "scholar": "al-Bukhari", "died": 256, "era": "classical", "band": "sahih", "grade": "Sahih", "source": "Sahih al-Bukhari 1, 54, 2529, 3898, 5070, 6689, 6953", "reason": "Chose it to open the Sahih and recorded it in seven places through five of Yahya ibn Sa'id's students (Ibn Uyaynah, Malik, al-Thawri, Hammad ibn Zayd, Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi). Inclusion in the Sahih is itself a grade: every narrator meets his conditions.", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:1" }, { "scholar": "Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj", "died": 261, "era": "classical", "band": "sahih", "grade": "Sahih", "source": "Sahih Muslim 1907", "reason": "Included in the Sahih, in the Book of Leadership.", "url": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:1907" }, { "scholar": "al-Tirmidhi", "died": 279, "era": "classical", "band": "sahih", "grade": "Hasan sahih", "gradeAr": "حسن صحيح", "source": "Jami' al-Tirmidhi 1647", "quoteAr": "هذا حديث حسن صحيح … ولا نعرفه إلا من حديث يحيى بن سعيد الأنصاري", "reason": "Sound, and known only through Yahya ibn Sa'id. He also records Ibn Mahdi's remark that this hadith ought to be placed in every chapter.", "url": "https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:1647" }, { "scholar": "al-Nawawi", "died": 676, "era": "classical", "band": "sahih", "grade": "Sound by consensus", "gradeAr": "أجمع المسلمون على عظم موقع هذا الحديث وكثرة فوائده وصحته", "source": "al-Arba'in, hadith 1; al-Minhaj Sharh Sahih Muslim 13/53", "reason": "Opened his Forty with it, noting that the two imams of hadith recorded it in their Sahihs, the soundest books composed. In his commentary on Muslim he writes that the Muslims agree on its great standing, its many benefits and its soundness.", "url": "https://shamela.ws/book/1711/2863" }, { "scholar": "Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali", "died": 795, "era": "classical", "band": "sahih", "grade": "Agreed upon", "gradeAr": "اتفق العلماء على صحته", "source": "Jami' al-Ulum wa al-Hikam, hadith 1", "quoteAr": "واتفق العلماء على صحته وتلقيه بالقبول، وبه صدر البخاري كتابه الصحيح وأقامه مقام الخطبة له", "reason": "Scholars agreed on its soundness and received it with acceptance; al-Bukhari opened his Sahih with it in place of a preface. Records al-Shafi'i's remark that it enters seventy chapters of law and Ahmad's that it is one of three hadith on which Islam's foundations rest.", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/جامع_العلوم_والحكم/الحديث_الأول" }, { "scholar": "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani", "died": 852, "era": "classical", "band": "sahih", "grade": "Sahih, agreed upon", "gradeAr": "متفق على صحته", "source": "Fath al-Bari, commentary on hadith 1", "quoteAr": "ثم إن هذا الحديث متفق على صحته أخرجه الأئمة المشهورون إلا الموطأ", "reason": "Agreed upon by all; recorded by every famous imam except in the Muwatta. Answers al-Tabari's observation that on some people's method it would be rejected for being single-stranded: it is single-stranded only in its sound form, and only in this wording; the meaning is attested from other Companions, and those who called it mass-transmitted erred.", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/فتح_الباري/بدء_الوحي/الحديث_الأول" }, { "scholar": "Ibn Taymiyya", "died": 728, "era": "classical", "band": "sahih", "grade": "Among the rare reports of the Sahih", "gradeAr": "من غرائب الصحيح", "source": "Majmu' al-Fatawa, vol. 18", "reason": "Sound and single-stranded at once: his phrase for exactly this shape of chain.", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/مجموع_الفتاوى/المجلد_الثامن_عشر/شرح_حديث_إنما_الأعمال_بالنيات" } ], "fanOut": { "afterId": "yahya-ibn-said", "headline": "many more students of Yahya ibn Sa'id", "detail": "From the Prophet ﷺ down to Yahya ibn Sa'id the report is carried by one person at each step. From Yahya it fans out: al-Bukhari alone records it through Malik, Sufyan al-Thawri, Hammad ibn Zayd and Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi, and Muslim adds al-Layth, Ibn al-Mubarak, Yazid ibn Harun and others. How many carried it from Yahya was itself examined: al-Naqqash counted 250, Ibn Manda listed more than 300, a report through al-Harawi claims 700, and Ibn Hajar, who spent his life collecting routes, could not complete a hundred and doubted the larger figures.", "named": [ "Malik ibn Anas", "Sufyan al-Thawri", "Hammad ibn Zayd", "Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi", "al-Layth ibn Sa'd", "Shu'ba", "Ibn al-Mubarak", "al-Awza'i" ], "source": "Ibn Hajar, Fath al-Bari on hadith 1; Ibn Rajab, Jami' al-Ulum, hadith 1" }, "lessons": [ { "title": "Rare is not the same as weak", "body": "At its first four links this is a single-strand report (gharib): one Companion, one Successor, one student, one student again. It is still one of the most universally accepted hadith in the corpus, because every one of those people is of the highest grade. Rarity is a property the discipline records; weakness is a verdict it reaches only from the narrators." }, { "title": "The verb on each link is evidence", "body": "“Narrated to us” and “I heard” assert direct hearing. Sufyan ibn Uyaynah occasionally used an ambiguous “from”, and critics noted it. Here, in the standard recension, he says “narrated to us”, which closes the question before it is asked." }, { "title": "Even a master has a file", "body": "A report that Sufyan's memory failed in his last year is on record alongside his rank as an imam, and so is al-Dhahabi's rejection of that report. Ahmad's reservation about Muhammad ibn Ibrahim sits beside four critics who called him reliable. The record hides nothing; it lets a reader see how the balance was struck." }, { "title": "Then it becomes famous", "body": "Below Yahya ibn Sa'id the chain widens into hundreds of routes. A report can be rare at its root and widely attested at its trunk; both facts are tracked, and both matter for how later scholars weigh it." } ], "context": "Hadith 1 is an abridgement: the clause “whoever's migration was for God and His Messenger, his migration is for God and His Messenger” appears in al-Bukhari's other six narrations and is omitted here, a practice of his that Ibn Hajar discusses at length. A report in al-Tabarani, through Ibn Mas'ud, tells of a man who migrated to marry a woman called Umm Qays, which is often given as the occasion of the example; Ibn Hajar accepts that report's chain but notes nothing in it states the hadith was spoken about that man, and Ibn Rajab says he found no sound basis for the story as its occasion. The early imams, al-Shafi'i, Ibn Mahdi and Ahmad among them, called this hadith a third of knowledge, and Abu Dawud named it among four hadith that suffice a person for their religion.", "vocabulary": [ { "term": "Isnad", "ar": "إسناد", "meaning": "The chain of people who passed the report down, named in order." }, { "term": "Matn", "ar": "متن", "meaning": "The text of the report itself." }, { "term": "Gharib", "ar": "غريب", "meaning": "A report carried by a single narrator at some point in its chain." }, { "term": "Mashhur", "ar": "مشهور", "meaning": "A report carried by three or more narrators at every level, short of mass transmission. This hadith is rare at its root and became mashhur from Yahya ibn Sa'id onward." }, { "term": "Thiqa", "ar": "ثقة", "meaning": "A narrator critics judged both upright and precise." }, { "term": "Tadlis", "ar": "تدليس", "meaning": "Using an ambiguous formula like “from” that hides whether the narrator heard directly." }, { "term": "Muttafaq alayh", "ar": "متفق عليه", "meaning": "Recorded by both al-Bukhari and Muslim from the same Companion." } ], "sources": [ { "label": "Sahih al-Bukhari 1 (sunnah.com)", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:1" }, { "label": "Ibn Hajar, Fath al-Bari on hadith 1 (Wikisource)", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/فتح_الباري/بدء_الوحي/الحديث_الأول" }, { "label": "Ibn Rajab, Jami' al-Ulum wa al-Hikam, hadith 1 (Wikisource)", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/جامع_العلوم_والحكم/الحديث_الأول" } ], "narrators": { "al-bukhari": { "id": "al-bukhari", "name": "Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari", "nameAr": "محمد بن إسماعيل بن إبراهيم البخاري", "short": "al-Bukhari", "shortAr": "البخاري", "kunya": "Abu Abdullah", "born": 194, "died": 256, "region": "Bukhara", "tabaqa": 11, "band": "thiqa", "role": "Compiler of al-Jami' al-Sahih", "taqrib": { "ar": "جبل الحفظ، وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث", "en": "A mountain of memory, and the world's leading authority on the understanding of hadith.", "number": "5727" }, "verdicts": [ { "critic": "Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani", "criticDied": 852, "en": "Devoted the introduction to Fath al-Bari (Hady al-Sari) to defending the book and documenting its narrators, chapter by chapter.", "source": "Hady al-Sari" } ], "bio": "Born in Bukhara, he studied across Khurasan, Iraq, the Hijaz, Syria and Egypt. Author of the collection Sunni scholarship ranks as the most rigorous book after the Qur'an. His conditions for inclusion, which later scholars inferred from the book itself, were stricter than any compiler's before him; he said he drew it from some six hundred thousand reports; Ibn Hajar counts 2,602 connected hadith in it without repetition (2,761 including the suspended reports).", "sources": [ { "label": "Sahih al-Bukhari on sunnah.com", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari" } ] }, "al-humaydi": { "id": "al-humaydi", "name": "Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydi", "nameAr": "عبد الله بن الزبير بن عيسى القرشي الأسدي الحُمَيدي", "short": "al-Humaydi", "shortAr": "الحميدي", "kunya": "Abu Bakr", "died": 219, "region": "Makkah", "tabaqa": 10, "band": "thiqa", "role": "Teacher of al-Bukhari; author of a Musnad", "taqrib": { "ar": "ثقة حافظ فقيه، أجلّ أصحاب ابن عيينة", "en": "Reliable, a hadith master and jurist; the most eminent of Ibn Uyaynah's students.", "number": "3320" }, "verdicts": [ { "critic": "Abu Hatim al-Razi", "criticDied": 277, "ar": "ثقة إمام", "en": "Reliable, an imam.", "source": "al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil 5/56", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/3654" }, { "critic": "Abu Hatim al-Razi", "criticDied": 277, "ar": "أثبت الناس في ابن عيينة الحميدي، وهو رئيس أصحاب ابن عيينة", "en": "The firmest of all people in Ibn Uyaynah is al-Humaydi; he is the chief of Ibn Uyaynah's companions.", "source": "al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil 5/56", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/3654" }, { "critic": "Ahmad ibn Hanbal", "criticDied": 241, "ar": "الحميدي عندنا إمام", "en": "Al-Humaydi is, to us, an imam.", "source": "Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 2/334", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/3654" }, { "critic": "al-Hakim", "criticDied": 405, "ar": "كان البخاري إذا وجد الحديث عند الحميدي لا يعدوه إلى غيره", "en": "When al-Bukhari found a hadith with al-Humaydi he would not pass him over for anyone else.", "source": "quoted in the Taqrib, entry 3320", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/تقريب_التهذيب/حرف_العين/ذكر_من_اسمه_عبد_الله" } ], "bio": "A Makkan scholar of the Quraysh who accompanied Sufyan ibn Uyaynah for many years and studied alongside al-Shafi'i, following him to Egypt and returning to Makkah after his death. Al-Bukhari opened his Sahih with a hadith from him.", "sources": [ { "label": "Taqrib al-Tahdhib, entry 3320 (Wikisource)", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/تقريب_التهذيب/حرف_العين/ذكر_من_اسمه_عبد_الله" }, { "label": "Narrator record (Shamela)", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/3654" } ] }, "sufyan-ibn-uyaynah": { "id": "sufyan-ibn-uyaynah", "name": "Sufyan ibn Uyaynah", "nameAr": "سفيان بن عُيينة بن أبي عمران الهلالي", "short": "Sufyan ibn Uyaynah", "shortAr": "سفيان بن عيينة", "kunya": "Abu Muhammad", "born": 107, "died": 198, "region": "Kufa, then Makkah", "tabaqa": 8, "band": "thiqa", "taqrib": { "ar": "ثقة حافظ فقيه إمام حجة، إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة، وكان ربما دلّس لكن عن الثقات", "en": "Reliable, a hadith master, jurist, imam and proof; however his memory changed late in life, and he would sometimes transmit with an ambiguous formula, though only from reliable narrators.", "number": "2451" }, "verdicts": [ { "critic": "Abu Hatim al-Razi", "criticDied": 277, "ar": "ثقة إمام", "en": "Reliable, an imam.", "source": "al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/2478" }, { "critic": "Ibn Hibban", "criticDied": 354, "ar": "كان يدلس ولا يدلس إلا عن ثقة متقن", "en": "He would use the ambiguous formula, but only over a reliable, precise narrator; something found in no one else, and wherever he did it the same report is found with his hearing stated.", "source": "Preface to his Sahih (al-Ihsan 1/161)", "url": "https://shamela.ws/book/1729/69" }, { "critic": "al-Dhahabi", "criticDied": 748, "ar": "وأنا أستبعد هذا الكلام من القطان وأعده غلطًا من ابن عمار", "en": "On the report that his memory failed in 197: “I consider this far-fetched from al-Qattan and count it an error by Ibn Ammar”, since al-Qattan died in Safar 198, just as the pilgrims were returning with news from the Hijaz, leaving no time to learn of a change and testify to it.", "source": "Mizan al-I'tidal, as quoted in al-Ightibat no. 44", "url": "https://shamela.ws/book/130/49" } ], "flags": [ { "label": "Occasional tadlis, tolerated", "detail": "Ibn Hajar places him in the second rank of Tabaqat al-Mudallisin (entry 52): narrators whose ambiguous “from” the imams accepted because of their stature and because they only did it over reliable people. In this chain he says “narrated to us”, so the link is explicit and the question does not arise. Ibn Hajar notes that in Abu Dharr al-Harawi's recension of the Sahih this link reads “from”." }, { "label": "Late change of memory, disputed", "detail": "Yahya al-Qattan is reported to have said Sufyan's memory became confused in 197 AH. Al-Dhahabi rejected the report on the dates; Ibn Hajar accepted it. Either way, al-Humaydi was “the firmest of people in Ibn Uyaynah”, so the question does not touch this chain. The record exists so that it can be asked." } ], "bio": "One of the two great Sufyans of the second century, a Kufan who settled in Makkah and taught there for decades. Al-Shafi'i, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Humaydi and Ibn Ma'in were among his students.", "sources": [ { "label": "Taqrib al-Tahdhib, entry 2451 (Wikisource)", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/تقريب_التهذيب/حرف_السين_المهملة/ذكر_من_اسمه_سعيد_(إلى_آخر_حرف_السين)" }, { "label": "Narrator record (Shamela)", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/2478" }, { "label": "Ibn Hajar's ranks of mudallisin, as summarised by Hammad al-Ansari (Shamela)", "url": "https://shamela.ws/book/22949/2" } ] }, "yahya-ibn-said": { "id": "yahya-ibn-said", "name": "Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari", "nameAr": "يحيى بن سعيد بن قيس الأنصاري", "short": "Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari", "shortAr": "يحيى بن سعيد الأنصاري", "kunya": "Abu Sa'id", "died": 144, "region": "Madinah", "tabaqa": 5, "band": "thiqa", "taqrib": { "ar": "ثقة ثبت", "en": "Reliable and firm.", "number": "7559" }, "verdicts": [ { "critic": "Ahmad ibn Hanbal", "criticDied": 241, "ar": "أثبت الناس", "en": "The firmest of people.", "source": "Tahdhib al-Kamal 31/346", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/6932" }, { "critic": "al-Nasa'i", "criticDied": 303, "ar": "ثقة ثبت", "en": "Reliable and firm.", "source": "Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 4/360", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/6932" }, { "critic": "Ibn Sa'd", "criticDied": 230, "ar": "ثقة كثير الحديث حجة ثبتًا", "en": "Reliable, prolific, a proof, firm.", "source": "al-Tabaqat", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/6932" } ], "flags": [ { "label": "Negligible tadlis", "detail": "Yahya al-Qattan said he “memorised and used the ambiguous formula”; Ibn Hajar placed him in the first rank of mudallisin, those who did it so rarely they should not be counted as such. Here he says “informed me” in any case." } ], "bio": "A judge in Madinah and later, for al-Mansur, in Iraq; a Madinan scholar of the Ansar, among the junior Successors (he met Anas ibn Malik); his grandfather Qays ibn Amr was a Companion. Malik, the two Sufyans, Shu'ba, Hammad ibn Zayd and many others learned from him, and this hadith became famous through his students.", "sources": [ { "label": "Taqrib al-Tahdhib, entry 7559 (Wikisource)", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/تقريب_التهذيب/حرف_الياء" }, { "label": "Narrator record (Shamela)", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/6932" } ] }, "muhammad-ibn-ibrahim-al-taymi": { "id": "muhammad-ibn-ibrahim-al-taymi", "name": "Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi", "nameAr": "محمد بن إبراهيم بن الحارث التيمي", "short": "Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi", "shortAr": "محمد بن إبراهيم التيمي", "kunya": "Abu Abdullah", "died": 120, "region": "Madinah", "tabaqa": 4, "band": "thiqa", "taqrib": { "ar": "ثقة له أفراد", "en": "Reliable; has some reports no one else transmits.", "number": "5691" }, "verdicts": [ { "critic": "Yahya ibn Ma'in", "criticDied": 233, "ar": "ثقة", "en": "Reliable.", "source": "al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil 7/184", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/5443" }, { "critic": "Abu Hatim al-Razi and al-Nasa'i", "ar": "ثقة", "en": "Reliable.", "source": "Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 3/488", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/5443" }, { "critic": "Ahmad ibn Hanbal", "criticDied": 241, "ar": "في حديثه شيء، يروي أحاديث مناكير أو منكرة", "en": "There is something in his hadith; he transmits some objectionable reports.", "source": "Tahdhib al-Kamal 24/301", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/5443" }, { "critic": "al-Dhahabi", "criticDied": 748, "ar": "وثقوه، وقال أحمد: روى مناكير", "en": "They declared him reliable; Ahmad said he transmitted objectionable reports.", "source": "al-Kashif", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/5443" } ], "flags": [ { "label": "A reservation on file", "detail": "Even in the first hadith of the Sahih, one narrator carries a critic's reservation. Ahmad's remark is recorded alongside the general verdict of reliability; Ibn Hajar's summary, “reliable, has reports only he carries”, is the balance. This hadith is one of those reports." } ], "bio": "A Madinan Successor of the Taym clan of Quraysh, of the middle generation of Successors.", "sources": [ { "label": "Taqrib al-Tahdhib, entry 5691 (Wikisource)", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/تقريب_التهذيب/حرف_الميم/ذكر_من_اسمه_محمد_على_ترتيب_الحروف_في_آبائهم" }, { "label": "Narrator record (Shamela)", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/5443" } ] }, "alqama-ibn-waqqas": { "id": "alqama-ibn-waqqas", "name": "Alqama ibn Waqqas al-Laythi", "nameAr": "علقمة بن وقّاص الليثي", "short": "Alqama ibn Waqqas", "shortAr": "علقمة بن وقاص", "kunya": "Abu Yahya (or Abu Waqid)", "died": null, "diedNote": "died during the caliphate of Abd al-Malik (65–86 AH)", "region": "Madinah", "tabaqa": 2, "band": "thiqa", "taqrib": { "ar": "ثقة ثبت، من الثانية، أخطأ من زعم أن له صحبة، وقيل إنه ولد في عهد النبي ﷺ", "en": "Reliable and firm, of the second generation. Whoever claimed he was a Companion erred; it is said he was born in the Prophet's lifetime.", "number": "4685" }, "verdicts": [ { "critic": "al-Nasa'i", "criticDied": 303, "ar": "ثقة", "en": "Reliable.", "source": "Tahdhib al-Kamal 20/313", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/4494" }, { "critic": "Ibn Sa'd", "criticDied": 230, "ar": "كان قليل الحديث", "en": "He transmitted little.", "source": "al-Tabaqat", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/4494" }, { "critic": "Abu Nu'aym", "criticDied": 430, "ar": "هذا وهم", "en": "On Ibn Manda counting him a Companion: “this is an error”.", "source": "al-Isaba 8/94", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/4494" } ], "bio": "A senior Successor of Madinah who heard Umar deliver this hadith from the pulpit, and is the only person known to have transmitted it from him. Whether he was a Companion was itself debated: Ibn Manda counted him one, Abu Nu'aym called that an error, and Ibn Hajar, who rules against it in the Taqrib and al-Isaba, still notes in Tahdhib al-Tahdhib a sound-looking report that would imply it and asks for the matter to be examined.", "sources": [ { "label": "Taqrib al-Tahdhib, entry 4685 (Wikisource)", "url": "https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/تقريب_التهذيب/حرف_العين/باب_ع_ل" }, { "label": "Narrator record (Shamela)", "url": "https://shamela.ws/narrator/4494" } ] }, "umar-ibn-al-khattab": { "id": "umar-ibn-al-khattab", "name": "Umar ibn al-Khattab", "nameAr": "عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه", "short": "Umar ibn al-Khattab", "shortAr": "عمر بن الخطاب", "kunya": "Abu Hafs", "born": -40, "died": 23, "region": "Madinah", "tabaqa": 1, "band": "sahabi", "verdicts": [], "bio": "The second caliph, born about forty years before the hijra by the usual estimate and assassinated in Dhu al-Hijja 23 AH. He delivered this hadith from the pulpit of the Prophet's mosque, which is where Alqama heard it.", "sources": [] } } }