- “Whoever fasts Ramadan, performs the [five] prayers, and makes pilgrimage to the House—I do not know whether he mentioned zakah or not—Allah has made it incumbent upon Himself to forgive him, whether he emigrates in the path of Allah or remains in the land where he was born.” Muʿādh said, “Shall I not tell the people of this?” He replied, “Let the people act, O Muʿādh.”
Al-Tirmidhī (2530), Aḥmad (5/232 and 240–241), and al-Bazzār (1/23/26) narrated it from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, attributed to the Prophet.
I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. Its narrators are reliable and are among Muslim’s narrators, were it not interrupted. Al-Tirmidhī said immediately afterward:
“ʿAṭāʾ did not live to meet Muʿādh ibn Jabal, who died early, during ʿUmar’s caliphate.”
I say: He died in the year 18 AH, as stated definitively in al-Taqrīb, whereas ʿAṭāʾ was born in the year 19 AH. Thus, al-Tirmidhī’s aforementioned statement—“... he did not live to meet Muʿādh”—is more precise than al-Ḥāfiẓ’s statement in al-Tahdhīb:
“There is some question as to whether he heard from Muʿādh.”
For this wording implies that he did live to meet him, whereas that was not the case.
I then found a corroborating report for this hadith, from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah, recorded by al-Bukhārī and others. It has previously been cited under no. 921. *