‘O People, there has come to you a great and blessed month, a month in which there is a night that is better than a thousand months. Allaah has made fasting (this month) an obligation and spending its nights in prayer an act of voluntary worship. Whoever draws near to Allaah during this month by doing some good deeds is like one who does an obligatory action at any other time, and the one who does an obligatory action during this month is like one who does seventy obligatory actions at any other times. It is a month whose beginning is mercy, its middle is forgiveness and its end is ransom from the Fire
The hadiith is very weak
The hadiith is present in Sahiih Ibn Khuzaimah
Ibn Khuzaimah said: If this hadiith is authentic
He used the word if. He did this with some of the narrations he included in his Sahiih. He did it when he was unsure if the hadiith was authentic or not.
The Imaam and Haafiz Muhammad bin Muusaa bin Hammaad al-'uqailii declared this hadiith weak.
Abu Haatim said the hadith was munkar (rejected)
Sheikh al-albaani graded it weak
Why did these great scholars of hadiith say it is weak? Let's look at the chain of this weak hadiith propagated among the masses without shame
Abu Abd al-Rahmaan Muhammad bin al-Husain bin Muhammad bin Muusaa al-Sulamii -> Abu 'amr 'ismaa'iil bin Nujaid -> Ja'far bin Muhammad bin sawwaar -> Ali bin Hujr -> Yusuf bin ziyaad -> Hammaam bin Yahyaa ->
Ali bin Zaid bin Jud'aan -> Sa'iid bin al-Musaiyyib -> Sulmaan al-Farsii
There is
inqitaa in the chain of this narration.
Sa'iid bin al-musayyab did not hear from Salmaan al-Farsii
The first problem with the chain is that there is inqitaa.
The second problem is the narrator
Ali bin Zaid bin Jud'aan
Some of the scholars who declared him weak include
- Ahmad bin Hanbal
- Ibn Ma'iin
- al-Nasaa'i
- Ibn Khuzaimah
al-Bayhaqi said: He is not strong
Ibn Hajar said: He is weak. He has a bad memory
Ibn al-Madiinii: He is weak
Ibn Khuzaimah said: He is not used as evidence because of his poor memory
So, for starters there is inqitaa in the chain. That means a narrator is missing. This alone makes the hadith weak.
All the scholars of hadiith unanimously agree that a hadith which has inqitaa is weak.
Then, we have a narrator who is very weak because of his poor memory.
The hadiith is
very weak. It is not fit to be mentioned to people.
Now you know why the great scholars of hadith such as Sheikh al-albaani, Abu Haatim, and al-'uqailii declared this hadith weak and munkar.
May Allaah guide us to the way of the Companions (may Allaah be pleased with them) who were very cautious in what they narrated.
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