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Galandān ގަލަންދާނު

28 May 2025 17:52

⚙️[Weak] Ḥadīth of Nahhās bin Qahm [Regarding the Virtures of the First 10 Days of Dhul Ḥijjah]

❝ Abū ʿĪsā Al-Tirmidhī stated in “Al-Jāmiʿ ” No. 758:

Abū Bakr bin Nāfiʿ Al-Baṣrī reported to us saying: Masʿūd Bin Wāṣil narrated to us, on the authority of Nahhās bin Qahm, on the authority of Qatādah, on the authority of Saʿīd bin Al-Musayyab, on the authority of Abū Hurairah, from the Prophet (peace and blessong be upon him) :

«مَا مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ أَنْ يُتَعَبَّدَ لَهُ فِيهَا مِنْ عَشْرِ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ يَعْدِلُ صِيَامُ كُلِّ يَوْمٍ مِنْهَا بِصِيَامِ سَنَةٍ وَقِيَامُ كُلِّ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْهَا بِقِيَامِ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ»

"There are no days more beloved to Allah that He be worshipped in them than the ten days of Dhul-Hijjah, fasting every day of them is the equivalent of fasting a year, and standing every night of them (in prayer) is the equivalent of standing on the Night of Qadr."

This is an invalid (bāṭil) ḥadīth. (A ḥadīth is usually termed as invalid, denoting it as an unintentional fabrication)

Al-Nahhās bin Qahm is a narrator who is weak in ḥadīth (wāhī in ḥadīth: i.e. whose ḥadīth are not taken as proof in itself due to his weakness), and he is of whose ḥadīth is rejected. The imāms [of hadith] have weakened him. He has one other narration besides this ḥadīth, which is also rejected. Al-ʿUqailī mentioned it in his biography, and it is in “Al-Tahdhīb.”

[Secondly] Masʿūd ibn Wāṣil is also not reliable, and he is a "Muqil" narrator (A Muqillu narrator is someone from whom only a handful of reports have been narrated, for example, by one or two people). None of the authors of the major six books of ḥadīth narrated from him except Al-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah, and they do not have anything from him except this ḥadīth. He is the only one who narrated this ḥadīth via Qatādah, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurairah, and this is one of the factors that indicate the invalidity of this narration.

Moreover, Abū ʿĪsā Al-Tirmidhī himself mentioned another defect in this ḥadīth. After narrating it, he said: “This is a gharīb ḥadīth that we do not know except from the hadith of Masʿūd ibn Wāṣil on the authority of al-Nahhās.” (Gharīb, or irregular ḥadīth, refers to a ḥadīth that has a single narrator at some point in its chain of transmission.) He ˹Al-Tirmidhī˺ continued: “I asked Muḥammad [i.e., Al-Bukhārī] about this ḥadīth, and he did not know it from any other source other than this.” He ˹Al-Tirmidhī˺ continued: “Something similar to this has been narrated on the authority of Qatādah, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, on the authority of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in "Mursal" form. (A Mursal narration is one in which the chain of transmission is disconnected, with the name of the companion omitted.) Yahya ibn Saʿīd criticized al-Nahhās ibn Qahm because of his memory.” —End quote [from Al-Tirmidhī].

The narration was also reported by Ibn Mājah (1728) and other than both of them. Ibn Al-Jawzī mentioned it in “Al-ʿIlal al-mutanāhiyah” (925) and he declared it weak due to Masʿūd ibn Wāṣil and al-Nahhās. ❞

— Al-Shaykh Al-Muḥaddith ʿAbdullah Al-Saʿd (Source: Aḥkm ʿAshra Dhil Ḥijjah, [pdf] p. 12)

~ Galandān 🖋
#حديث_ضعيف

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[Note] The Shaykh also commented on it in his explanation of Jamiʿ Al-Tirmidhī's, Book of Fasting, and said: “This narration is munkar and is not authenticm” (Audio). Our Shaykh Sulaymān Al-ʿAlwān also commented on this ḥadīth and said: “This was narrated by Al-Tirmidhī and others, but its authenticity is challenged. This ḥadīth is weak and not authentic.” (Audio)