Nu'aym ibn Hammad

نعيم بن حماد

Nu'aym ibn Hammad, a narrator in the chain of 'none of you believes until his desire follows what I have brought' — the forty-first hadith of the Forty — between Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi and Abd al-Rahman ibn Hatim al-Maradi and Ibn Wara'; the memoriser Abu Musa al-Madini said 'this hadith is disputed over Nu'aym', the chain also running 'one of our shaykhs — Hisham or another — told us'; and Ibn Rajab held grading it sound very remote for reasons including that Nu'aym ibn Hammad alone narrates it (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam pp. 824–825).

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Roles: Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
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Overview

Nu'aym ibn Hammad, a narrator in the chain of the hadith "None of you truly believes until his desire follows what I have brought," which is the forty-first hadith of the Forty ¹.

Place in the chain

He stands between Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi, Abd al-Rahman ibn Hatim al-Muradi, and Ibn Warra ¹.

Dispute over the hadith

The hafiz Abu Musa al-Madini said: this hadith is disputed on the authority of Nu'aym, and it has been said that in it he reported "Some of our shaykhs told us, Hisham or someone else told us." Ibn Rajab said: its authentication is very far-fetched on several grounds, among them that Nu'aym alone transmitted it ¹.

Connections

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Mentioned in: Arba'un 41 — none believes until his desire follows what I brought

People and things also explored

Vain desire (hawa)· Iman (faith)· Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As· Arba'un 41 — none believes until his desire follows what I brought

Sources

Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam — Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali , p.824-825

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Vain desire (hawa)

Hawa in the forty-first hadith of the Forty is the soul's inclination that must be made subject to revelation: 'none of you believes until his desire is brought to follow what I have brought' — following vain desire is the opposite of following the Messenger, and a condition of faith is that the soul's bent be made a follower of the Law, not followed; from it grow the corruption of opinion ruling alone and the preferring of appetite over proof (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam p. 824).