Sunan Abi Dawud 1514
About Seeking Forgiveness
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حَدَّثَنَا النُّفَيْلِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مَخْلَدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ الْعُمَرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي نُصَيْرَةَ عَنْ مَوْلًى لأَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مَا أَصَرَّ مَنِ اسْتَغْفَرَ وَإِنْ عَادَ فِي الْيَوْمِ سَبْعِينَ مَرَّةً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Nufaylī
- Makhlad b. Yazīd
- ʿUthmān b. Wāqid al-ʿUmarī
- Abū Nuṣayrah
- a freed slave of Lʾabī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
- Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: He who asks pardon is not a confirmed sinner, even if he returns to his sin seventy times a day.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث غريب
machine translationThis is a strange (gharīb) hadith.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1509 - Bazzār
وهذا الحديث لا نحفظه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من وجه من الوجوه إلا عن أبي بكر بهذا الطريق وعثمان بن واقد مشهور حدث عنه أبو معاوية وأبو يحيى الحماني وغيرهما وأبو نصيرة ومولى أبي بكر فلا يعرفان ولكن لما كان هذا الحديث لا يعرف إلا من هذا الوجه لم نجد بدا من كتابته وتبيين علته
machine translationWe do not know this hadith from the Prophet ﷺ by any route other than this one, from Abū Bakr. ʿUthmān b. Wāqid is well known; Abū Muʿāwiyah, Abū Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī and others narrated from him. As for Abū Nuṣayrah and the freed slave of Abū Bakr, they are not known. But since this hadith is not known except through this route, we found no alternative but to write it down and make clear its defect.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1509
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2340وَعَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا أَصَرَّ مَنِ اسْتَغْفَرَ وَإِنْ عَادَ فِي الْيَوْمِ سَبْعِينَ مَرَّةً». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3559al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20822Musnad al-Bazzar 129Musnad Abi Ya'la 136Musnad Abi Ya'la 137Musnad Abi Ya'la 138
Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمعن
- unknown (majhūl)مَوْلًى لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِمجهولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 and 140 AHأَبِي نُصَيْرَةَثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made errors (wahm)d. between 151 and 160 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ وَاقِدٍ الْعُمَرِيُّصدوق ، ربما وهمنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 193 AHمَخْلَدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَصدوق له أوهامنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 234 AHالنُّفَيْلِيُّثقة حافظحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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