Weak Hadiths Concerning Neighbours

1. Jaabir bin Abdullaah (may Allaah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “There are categories of neighbours: firstly, the neighbour who enjoys only one right and he is the lowest of neighbours in right. Secondly, the one who enjoys two rights and thirdly the neighbour who enjoys three rights. The neighbour with only one right is the polytheist with whom there is no tie of kinship. The neighbour with two rights is the neighbour who is a Muslim; he has the right of Islaam and the right of neighbourhood. As regards the one with three rights, it is the neighbour who is a Muslim and a relative; he has the right of Islaam, the right of neighbourhood and the right of a relative.”

Recorded by al-Bazzaar in his Musnad and he said, “We do not know of it (this hadeeth) from the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) except through this chain of narrators. Al-Haythamee said in Majma’ az-Zawaa’id (8/164): “The Shaykh of al-Bazzaar Abdullaah bin Muhammad al-Haarithee is a fabricator of hadeeth.” Shaykh Alee Hasan stated that this hadeeth is weak because of two shortcomings: the weakness of Ataa’ al-Khurasani and al-Hasan did not hear from Jaabir.[1]

2. At-Tabaraanee in his Mu‘jam al-Kabeer (4379) and others related that the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “The neighbour before the house.” Another version reads: “Choose the neighbour before the house.” As-Sakhawi said in al-Maqaasid al-Hasanah (no. 163): “Ibn al-Muhabbar is Matrook (rejected); he and Sa‘eed cannot be used as proof.” Imaam adh-Dhahabee mention this hadeeth in Meezaan al-I’tidaal (1/15) among the Munkar (denounced) ahaadeeth of Ibn al-Muhabbar.[2]

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[1] Huqooq al-Jaar fee Saheeh as-Sunnah wal-Aathaar, p. 40

[2] Source: Huqooq al-Jaar fee Saheeh as-Sunnah wal-Aathaar, p. 37-40 by Alee Hasan  Alee Abdul-Hameed