Sunan Ibn Majah 2538
سنن ابن ماجه#2538Da'ifIt was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“A legal punishment that is carried out in the land is better for the people of that land than if it were to rain for forty days.”
Scholarly Authentication
We show the most cautious grade (weakest-wins) as the overall label. Individual scholars graded it as follows:
Al-AlbaniHasan
Muhammad Fouad Abd al-BaqiHasan
Zubair Ali ZaiDaif
In-book reference: 20:6