حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَلْجٍ البَغْدَادِيُّ، صَاحِبُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَفْصٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: لَا تُكْثِرُوا الكَلَامَ بِغَيْرِ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّ كَثْرَةَ الكَلَامِ بِغَيْرِ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ قَسْوَةٌ لِلْقَلْبِ، وَإِنَّ أَبْعَدَ النَّاسِ مِنَ اللَّهِ القَلْبُ القَاسِ

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي النَّضْرِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو النَّضْرِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَحْوَهُ بِمَعْنَاهُ

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لَا نَعْرِفُهُ إِلَّا مِنْ حَدِيثِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ‏

Book [36]: Chapters on zuhd [asceticism]
Chapter [61]: The prohibition of talking too much without the remembrance of Allāh

Ḥadīth [2411]: It is narrated on the authority of ibn ‘Umar (may Allāh be pleased with them both) that he said: The Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “Do not talk too much without remembrance of Allāh. Indeed, excessive talking without remembrance of Allāh hardens the heart. And indeed, the furthest of people from Allāh is the harsh-hearted.”

(Another chain) with a narration similar in meaning.

Abū ‘Īsā said: This ḥadīth is ḥasan gharīb, we do not know of it except from the narration of Ibrāhīm bin ‘Abdullāh bin Ḥāṭib.

Anyone used to talking too much without making the remembrance of Allāh a part of his conversation, will have his heart hardened and devoid of all luster and tender feelings. Fear of Allāh and submissiveness towards Him will not find a place in his heart. As a result, he will be deprived of Allāh’s mercy and closeness to Him.

• Reference: [2411 (4/422-423), Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Dārussalām (Eng)]

• Ḍa’īf at-Targhīb (1718 (2/241-242))
• Shu’ab al-Īmān (4600-4601 (7/28-29))
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (1840 (1/427))
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (1895 (1/439))
• Al-Musnad al-Jāmi’ (8097 (10/698))
• Tuḥfatul Ashrāf (7123 (00/00))
• ‘Umdatul Tafsīr [Aḥmad Shākir] (1/127)
• Al-Ādāb ash-Shar’īyah (1/77-78)
• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (2276)
• Riyāḍuṣ Ṣāliḥīn (1518)
• Ḍa’īf al-Jāmi’ (6265 (1/904))
• Silsilah Aḥādīth aḍ-Ḍa’īfah (920 (2/321))
• Al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil (14562)
• Talkhīṣ al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil (14562 (6/4-5))
• Jāmi’ al-‘Ulūm wal-Ḥikam (902 (1/418))
• Jāmi’ al-Uṣūl (9429 (11/737))

Grade:

• Ṣaḥīḥ isnād by Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir (‘Umdatul Tafsīr)
• Ḥasan by Shaykh Dr. Ḍiyā’-ur-Raḥmān al-‘Aẓamī (Al-Jāmi’ al-Kāmil)
• Isnād ḥasan by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ‘Alī Za’ī (Jāmi’ at-Tirmidhī (2411 (1/722-723)) & Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (2276 (2/26)))
• Isnād ḥasan by Shaykh ‘Abdul-Qādir al-Arna’ūṭ (Jāmi’ al-Uṣūl)
• The narrators are thiqāt by Mukhtār Aḥmad an-Nadwī (Shu’ab al-Īmān)
• Ḥasan gharīb by Imām at-Tirmidhī
• Isnād ḍa’īf by Shaykh Shu’ayb al-Arna’ūṭ (Jāmi’ al-Kabīr (2575 (4/413)))
• Ḍa’īf by Shaykh al-Albānī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2411 (1/543)) & Ḍa’īf at-Targhīb (1718 (2/241-242)))
• Ḍa’īf by Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar ad-Da’wah, New Delhi (Sunan at-Tirmidhī (2411 (3/367)))
• Ḍa’īf by Shaykh ‘Eṣām Mūsā Hādī (Jāmi’ al-Kabīr (2411 (1/730)))

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