Authenticity of hadith

[hanaan]

Assalamualaykkum,

Could anyone check the authenticity of the following hadith ??


The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu 3layhi wasSalaam) said:
"Some people will come on the Day of Judgement and their Imaan will be outstanding, its light will shine from their chests and from their right hands. So it will be said to them, 'glad tidings for you today, asSalaamu 3laykum and goodness for you, enter into it (Jannah) forever!'
So the Angels and the Prophets will be jealous of the Love of Allah for them."
So the Sahabah asked, "Who are they, Ya Rasoolullah?"
He (sallAllaahu 3layhi wa sallam) replied,
"They are not from us and they are not from you.
You are my companions but they are my beloved.
They will come after you and will find the Book (the Qur'aan) made redundant by the people, and a Sunnah which has been killed by them.
So they will grab hold of the Book and the Sunnah and revive them.
So they read them and teach them (the Qur'aan and the Sunnah) to the people and they will experience in that path a punishment more severe and more ugly than what you (O Sahabah) have experienced.
Indeed the Imaan of one of them is equivalent to the Imaan of forty of you.
The Shaheed of one of them is equivalent to forty of your Shuhadaa'.
Because you found a helper towards the truth (the Prophet - sallAllaahu 3layhi wa sallam) and they will find no helper towards the truth.
So they will be surrounded by tyrant rulers in every place, and they will be in the surroundings of Bait-ul-Maqdis (Al-Quds, Masjid al-Aqsa).
The Nussrah (Help and Victory) of Allah will come to them, and they will have the honour of it on their hands."
Then he (sallAllaahu 3layhi wasSalaam) said, "O Allaah, give then the Nussrah and make them my close friends in Jannah." -Reported in Ahmad

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[Abdullah Bin Jahash]

Salamu 3alaykum wa Ra7matullahi wa Barakatuh. I posted this months ago to find out authenticity of the hadeeth. but no response came. Could anyone pls clarify the authenticity of this hadeeth? Jazakumullahi khayran.

[HiBz EsSenSe ©]

Asaalmu Alaikum WaRahmat Allahu WaBarakatu
Ill Get Back to you with the Proof but im Almost Positive this hadeeth is Da'eef
Wallahu Taala A3lam

[mytemuslim]

As salaamu alaikum,
I don't know if this explanation is referring to this SPECIFIC hadith with its isnad, but here's what was on Islam Q&A about this hadith, I have also posted the question number. InshaAllah it isn't too late for the shuyook to clarify further.

Islam Question and Answer

Question No 3374
The contrast between the deeds of the Sahaabah and the deeds of the people at the end of time

Question:

I read a hadith in sahih al-jamii, where the Prophet said to the Sahaba that there would be Muslims that would come when the Religion is weak, and they would get reward equal to 50 times that of the Sahaba. I am confused, I thought that there was also a hadith where the Prophet said that the best generation is his, then the ones after them, and those after them. He also said that if someone gold that the sahaba gave?.

Answer:

Praise be to Allaah.

In order to understand this issue we must note that there are two types of reward, the reward for knowledge and the reward for accompanying the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Some later members of the ummah may do deeds that are greater in reward than similar actions on the part of some of the Sahaabah because they will have no one to support and help them, and because they will be subject to a great deal of temptation, but they will not have the reward of having accompanied the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and met him.

Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar said:

The hadeeth “The righteous among them will have the reward of fifty of you” does not mean that people other than the Sahaabah are superior to the Sahaabah, because simply having more reward does not prove that one is superior.

Moreover, the difference in reward is with regard to the same type of deed. But the superiority attained by one who saw the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cannot be matched by anyone.

This is how we may interpret the ahaadeeth quoted above.

Fath al-Baari, 7/7

Shaykh al-Islam (Ibn Taymiyah – may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

They – meaning the later members of the ummah – may have good deeds equivalent to those of fifty men among the Sahaabah, of the deeds that they did at that time. That is because the Sahaabah had help and support in that, whereas those who come later may not have help and support. But the fact that the reward will be multiplied for them in cases where it is not multiplied for the Sahaabah does not mean that they are better than the Sahaabah or that their virtue is any greater than that of the Sahaabah. What the Sahaabah achieved in terms of faith, jihad and fighting the people of this earth by supporting the Messenger, believing what he said and obeying his teachings before his call spread, his word prevailed, the number of his supporters increased and the proof of his Prophethood became widely known, indeed when the believers were so few in number and the disbelievers and hypocrites were so many, and the believers spent their wealth for the sake of Allaah, seeking His pleasure in that situation, is something that no one can achieve the like of any more. As it says in al-Saheehayn, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Do not curse the Sahaabah, for by the One in Whose hand is my soul, if any one of you spent the equivalent of Mount Uhud in gold, he would not attain the level of any one of them, or even come half way.”

Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 13/65, 66

Moreover, there is no virtuous deed that those who come later can do, but those who came before did something similar in a more perfect fashion.

With regard to the words “They will have the reward of fifty of you because you have supporters who help you to do good and they will not have any supporters who will help them to do good,” this is correct in a case where a deed done by a single person among those who come later are like the deed done by a group of people among those who came before, so he will have the reward of fifty. But you should not imagine that one of those who come later will do deeds like those of some of the major Sahaabah such as Abu Bakr and ‘Umar, for there will never again be a Prophet like Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) with whom people may do deeds like those that were done with Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).

With regard to the words, “My ummah is like the rain, I do not know whether the first of it is better or the last of it,” although this hadeeth is not very sound, what it means is that among those who come later there will be those who are similar to those who came before, and they will be so close that the one who tries to compare them will not know which is better, even though one of them is in fact better.

This is glad tidings for those who come later, that among them will be those who are close to those who came before them, as it says in another hadeeth: “The best of my ummah are the first and the last, and between them there will be some crookedness. Would that I could see my brethren.” They said, “Are we not your brethren?” He said, “You are my companions.” This shows that precedence was given to the Sahaabah, because they alone are his companions, which is a higher status than merely being brothers.”

Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 11/370, 371

It is worth pointing out that there is no basis for the phrase used in the question, “the best of generations is my generation”, although it is often used in the books of Ahl al-Sunnah. Moreover, there is a mistake with regard to its meaning. If this is what he said, then he would have said after it, “then the one that follows it.” But the wording of the hadeeth is “then those who follow them.” The wording of the saheeh hadeeth is: “The best of mankind is my generation” and “The best of my ummah is my generation.”

And Allaah knows best.
Islam Q&A

[Ammar Ibn Petrit]

I was debating with someone over the autenticity of the two sahihayn and he said that there is no ijma over them. He did mention an fatawa of Imam Shatibi that there is no ijma. Can anyone explains to me this issue?

thanks

ma salama

[sunnih]

Assalamu alaikum. As for the authenticity of sahih el-Bukhari it is no doubt ijma that it is saheh. If you are talking about each and every specific hadith in it then in it there are those ahadith that Bukhari has narrated in muallaq form. Regarding them, there is no ijma but these ahadith are used only in chapter headings and not in the main body of the sahih. However they have been found elsewhere with full isnads. So in general the whole sahih Bukhari and sahih Muslim are accepted as sahih by the ummah and indeed there is ijma that they are sahih. A minimal number (about four or so) has been spoken about and on those there are scholars who have made criticism but they to say that the collections are sahih beyond doubt. And Allah knows best.

[Abu Bakr]

I was debating with someone over the autenticity of the two sahihayn and he said that there is no ijma over them. He did mention an fatawa of Imam Shatibi that there is no ijma. Can anyone explains to me this issue?

thanks

ma salama
see here:

http://forums.almaghrib.org/showthread.php?t=25118