2 of 2 · c. 40–51 AH · Kufah and Madinah · Kufah and al-'Aqiq
Sa'id ibn Zayd رضي الله عنه
The Ten in Paradise
In Kufah, a man spoke ill of 'Ali in the presence of Sa'id ibn Zayd. Sa'id was angry. He said that he testified that he had heard the Prophet ﷺ say: Abu Bakr in Paradise, 'Umar in Paradise, 'Uthman in Paradise, 'Ali in Paradise, Talhah, al-Zubayr, Sa'd, 'Abd al-Rahman and Abu 'Ubaydah in Paradise. He named nine, and the people asked who the tenth was. He was silent for a moment, then said, "I am."
He then said that a man standing in the company of the Messenger ﷺ, with his face covered in the dust of struggle, was better than the deeds of any of them, even if he lived the age of Nuh (Sunan Abi Dawud 4649; 4650; Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3748).
Sa'id died around 51 AH, in his seventies, at his home in al-'Aqiq near Madinah. He was carried to the city, where Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar are reported to have washed him, and he was buried in al-Baqi'.
Honouring the Companions means speaking of them as the Prophet ﷺ spoke of them.
How do you respond when someone is spoken of unfairly in your presence?
- Sunan Abi Dawud 4649 Graded by Al-Albani: Sahih · Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Sahih · Shuaib Al Arnaut: Hasan · Zubair Ali Zai: Isnaad HasanSahih
- Sunan Abi Dawud 4650 Graded by Al-Albani: Sahih · Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Sahih · Shuaib Al Arnaut: Sahih · Zubair Ali Zai: Isnaad SahihSahih
- Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3748 Graded by Ahmad Muhammad Shakir: Sahih · Al-Albani: Sahih · Zubair Ali Zai: SahihSahih
- Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabaqat al-KubraHistorical report
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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