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Abu Muwayhibah رضي الله عنه
The Witness Who Told It
Abu Muwayhibah outlived the Prophet ﷺ, but the books record almost nothing of his later years, not even the date of his death. What survives of him is his witness.
He was the one who went with the Prophet ﷺ to al-Baqi' that night, and it was he who carried the story to others, in his own words: what the Prophet ﷺ said to the dead, what he said to him, and the choice he made. Through a freed man whom history otherwise barely mentions, the Muslims learned how their Prophet ﷺ began his journey to his Lord.
A small life faithfully lived can carry a trust that benefits the whole community.
What good have you witnessed that you have a duty to pass on?
- Musnad Ahmad (report of Abu Muwayhibah)Grade not recorded here
- Ibn Hajar, al-IsabahHistorical report
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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