2 of 2 · 10 AH · 632 CE · Madinah, Makkah, 'Arafah and Muzdalifah
Jabir ibn 'Abdullah رضي الله عنه
Remembering the Prophet's Pilgrimage
In the tenth year after the Hijrah, the Prophet ﷺ performed his only pilgrimage, and Jabir was among the vast crowd. He watched everything closely.
Years afterwards, when a student asked Jabir about the pilgrimage, he counted nine on his fingers and described it step by step: the departure from Madinah, the sacred state at Dhu al-Hulayfah, the call of talbiyah, the circuits of the Ka'bah, the day at 'Arafah, the sermon, the night at Muzdalifah, and the stoning at Mina. This long narration is recorded in Sahih Muslim (1218).
Because of Jabir's careful memory, Muslims today can perform Hajj as the Prophet ﷺ did, step by step.
Paying close attention to the Prophet's worship preserves it for everyone who comes after.
What act of worship could you learn more carefully, as Jabir did, so you do it as taught?
- Sahih Muslim 1218 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Sunan Abi Dawud 1905Graded by Al-Albani: Sahih · Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Sahih · Zubair Ali Zai: Sahih Muslim (1218)Sahih
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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