English translation
857. It was narrated from Ibn 'Abbâs that the Messenger of Allâh said: "The Jews do not envy you for anything more than they envy you for the Salâm and (saying) Âmin, so say Âmin a great deal." (Da'if)
Hadith 857
- English source
Darussalam · Volume 2
(5) The Chapters OfEstablishing The PrayerAnd The SunnahRegarding ThemSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
- Arabic source
- Shamela Arabic edition (opens in a new tab)
الحديث: 857 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 279
Al-Albani source references (1)
- صحيح وضعيف سنن ابن ماجة (opens in a new tab)
Source no. 857 · Volume 2 · Page 429
Very weak
ضعيف جدا، التعليق الرغيب (١ / ١٧٨ - ١٧٩)
Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.
Arabic text
857 - حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْخَلَّالُ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَأَبُو مُسْهِرٍ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ صُبَيْحٍ الْمُرِّيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا طَلْحَةُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا حَسَدَتْكُمُ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ، مَا حَسَدَتْكُمْ عَلَى آمِينَ، فَأَكْثِرُوا مِنْ قَوْلِ آمِينَ»
My commentary
Personal notesYour commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.
Commentary
Exchanging Salâm (salutations) while greeting each other, and saying Âmin, is a special characteristic of the Muslim people, noticed even by the non-Muslims. Envy keeps them from adopting it, yet they wish the Muslims as well to lose this characteristic. Islamic etiquette is to greet each other by saying As-Salâmu 'Alaikum and Wa 'Alaikum As-Salâm. But the sad state is that some people have given up this excellent invocation in favor of meaningless words of greeting used by the non-Muslims. d. Āmin means: 'O Allāh, accept our invocation' or simply 'May it be so'. This abbreviated invocation is in fact the repetition of the longer invocations already articulated. Jews and Christians also use this expression (spelt as 'amen'). They have probably taken it from the Muslims, or else it is one of those things still extant from the teaching of earlier Prophets. Hence it is that they do not like the idea of seeing the Muslims using this blessed word. Muslims, therefore, must be wary of the designs of the disbelievers and never leave the blessed invocations of Āmin and Salām.