❀ A Critical Analysis of a Fabricated Ḥadīth Mentioned in ad-Durr al-Manthūr ❀
Compiled by: Tauheed.com
ٱلْـحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهٗ، وَٱلصَّلَاةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَىٰ مَنْ لَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدَهٗ، أَمَّا بَعْدُ:
◈ Ḥadīth Text and Chain of Narration
This ḥadīth is cited by Abū al-Faraj al-Muʿaffā ibn Zakariyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Jarīrī al-Nahrawānī in his book:
"al-Jalīs aṣ-Ṣāliḥ al-Kāfī wal-Anīs an-Nāṣiḥ ash-Shāfī" (p. 444).
◈ Chain of Narrators:
① Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd Abū al-Ḥasan at-Tirmidhī
② Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Maysarah
③ Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abī Shuʿayb al-Khawātīmī
④ Ibrāhīm ibn Makhlad
⑤ Salīm al-Khashshāb (Mawlā Banī Shaybah)
⑥ Ibn Jurayj
⑦ ʿAṭā’
⑧ Ibn ʿAbbās (RA)
◈ Ḥadīth Text Summary
The narration states that during Ḥajjat al-Wadāʿ, the Prophet ﷺ grasped the door rings of the Kaʿbah, turned to the people and wept, saying:
“O people!”
The companions responded: “We are at your service, O Messenger of Allah! May our parents be sacrificed for you.”
Then he ﷺ wept so profusely that his weeping was audible.
He said:
“O people! I inform you of signs of the Hour: neglect of prayer, following desires, inclining toward whims, honoring the wealthy…”
The narration then lists many more signs of the Hour, including:
- Believers’ hearts melting like salt in water from helplessness before evil
- Widespread fear
- Disobedient children
- Prevalence of immorality and falsehood
- Adornment of mosques like churches
- Use of Qur'an in musical tones
- False rulers, dishonest ministers
- Widespread usury, bribery, and deceptive trade
- Men wearing silk and gold
- Women entering business
- Public singing, music, and indecency
- Turning pilgrimage into recreation or ostentation
- Role reversal between genders
- Market collapse, abandoned trade
- Disobedience to parents and cutting off friends
- And major signs like sun rising from the west, Dajjāl, and earthquakes
◈ Authenticity Review of the Chain
This narration is fabricated (موضوع) and falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ.
Imām al-Suyūṭī mentioned this narration in ad-Durr al-Manthūr (7/474), referencing Ibn Mardawayh, whose Tafsīr is no longer extant. However, the chain itself contains serious flaws, particularly due to unreliable and discredited narrators.
◈ Criticism of Key Narrators
❖ Salīm al-Khashshāb (مولى بني شيبة)
➊ Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: “He is not to be considered; his ḥadīths carry no weight.”
➋ Abū Ḥātim ar-Rāzī: “He is weak and narrates rejected ḥadīths.”
(al-Jarḥ wat-Taʿdīl, 4/315)➌ Ibn Maʿīn: “He is a liar.”
(Tārīkh Ibn Maʿīn, 1/58)➍ Imām an-Nasā’ī: “He is matrūk al-ḥadīth (abandoned narrator).”
(al-Ḍuʿafā’ wal-Matrūkūn, p. 244)➎ Ibn Ḥibbān: “He used to fabricate narrations from reliable narrators, to such an extent that one could tell by hearing that the ḥadīth is false.”
(al-Majrūḥīn, p. 463)◈ Secondary Chain: The Version in
Another chain of this narration is cited in al-Māʾatīn, but it also includes fabricated narrators, such as:
❖ Mūsā ibn Jābān
Declared matrūk al-ḥadīth (Lisān al-Mīzān, no. 1726)❖ Maysarah ibn ʿAbd Allāh
➊ Imām al-Bukhārī: “He is a liar.”
➋ Imām an-Nasā’ī: “Abandoned in ḥadīth.”
➌ Abū Ḥātim: “He used to fabricate narrations.”
(Tārīkh Baghdād, 15/297)◈ Final Conclusion
✔ This narration is not authentic.
✔ It is fabricated (موضوع) in both primary and secondary chains.
✔ The chains are full of discredited, abandoned, and accused fabricators.
✔ Scholars of ḥadīth, including Imām Aḥmad, Ibn Maʿīn, an-Nasā’ī, Abū Ḥātim, and Ibn Ḥibbān, have explicitly rejected these narrators.
✔ The themes and wording of the narration are exaggerated and theatrical, typical of fabricated traditions.
وَاللّٰهُ أَعْلَمُ بِالصَّوَابِ
May Allah protect us from accepting fabricated narrations and grant us sound knowledge based on Qur'an and authentic Sunnah. Āmīn.
