❖ Authored by: Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Anwar Zāhid ḥafiẓahullāh
❖ The Narration
It is narrated from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbbās رضي الله عنهما that he said:When ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb رضي الله عنه accepted Islam, Jibrīl عليه السلام came and said:
“O Muḥammad ﷺ! A wave of joy has spread among the angels in the heavens due to the Islam of ʿUmar رضي الله عنه.”
❖ Ḥadīth Verification
⟹ Its chain is extremely weak (إسناده ضعيف جداً).
- This narration is recorded by Ibn Mājah, Kitāb al-Sunnah, under the chapter “The Virtue of ʿUmar”, Ḥadīth no. 103.
- Būṣayrī states that there is a consensus on the weakness of the narrator ʿAbdullāh ibn Kharrāsh, and only Ibn Ḥibbān made a lone attempt at affirming his reliability.
- Shaykh al-Albānī رحمه الله has also classified this ḥadīth as severely weak in al-Ḍaʿīfah and other works.
- Imām al-Dhahabī mentions in al-Mustadrak that Dāraqutnī declared ʿAbdullāh ibn Kharrāsh as weak.
[Refer: Kanz al-ʿUmmāl, 11/1157; al-Iḥsān, 15/307]
❖ Conclusion
The narration that the angels rejoiced in the heavens upon the acceptance of Islam by ʿUmar رضي الله عنه is based on an extremely weak chain and thus cannot be relied upon as authentic.
وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ بِالصَّوَابِ
