Narrator: Ibrahim al-Taymi, from his father
Numbering: Al-Maktabah al-Shamela
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَحْيَى السَّاجِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ يَزِيدَ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ نِزَارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: وَجَّهَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي سَرِيَّةٍ، «فَأَمَرَنَا أَنْ نَقْرَأَ إِذَا أَمْسَيْنَا وَإِذَا أَصْبَحْنَا: {أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ عَبَثًا} [المؤمنون: ١١٥] الْآيَةَ، فَقَرَأْنَا؛ فَغَنِمْنَا وَسَلِمْنَا».
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi narrated from his father: The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) sent us on an expedition, “and he commanded us to recite, evening and morning: {Did you then think that We created you in vain} — that verse. So we recited it; and we gained spoils and came back safe.”
Grade
Ibn Mandah’s chain is acceptable (citing al-Hafiz)
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Himpunan Risalah, footnote no. 82
He attributes the report to Ibn al-Sunni, Abu Nu‘aym and Ibn Mandah. This card shows Ibn al-Sunni’s wording.
Acting on a weak report in fada’il al-a‘mal
Imam al-Nawawi writes in al-Adhkar: “The scholars among the hadith specialists, the jurists and others have said: it is permitted and encouraged to act, in matters of merit and of encouragement and warning, upon a weak hadith — so long as it is not fabricated (mawdu‘).” As for rulings such as the lawful and unlawful, sale, marriage and divorce, these may rest only on a sahih or hasan report.
The conditions Ibn ‘Allan states in al-Futuhat al-Rabbaniyya (1/84): (1) the report is neither fabricated nor severely weak; (2) it falls under an established general principle; and (3) when acting on it one does not hold it to be established from the Prophet (peace be upon him), but acts out of precaution.
Al-Adhkar, al-Nawawi — section on acting upon a weak hadith
Notes
The report is mursal from the father of Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi. Qawiy has not checked the wordings of Abu Nu‘aym and Ibn Mandah, nor al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar’s statement, directly.