Sunan Abi Dawud 1539

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ used to seek refuge in Allah from five things; cowardliness, niggardliness, the evils of old age, evil thoughts, and punishment in the grave.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  رواه يونس بن أبي إسحاق وابنه إسرائيل عن أبي إسحاق عن عمرو بن ميمون عن عمر وخالفهما شعبة والثوري ومسعر فرووه عن أبي إسحاق عن عمرو بن ميمون مرسلا عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم والمتصل صحيح

  machine translationYūnus b. Abī Isḥāq and his son Isrāʾīl narrated it from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAmr b. Maymūn, from ʿUmar. Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī and Misʿar differed from them, and narrated it from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAmr b. Maymūn, as a mursal report (mursal) from the Prophet ﷺ. The connected (muttaṣil) version is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1534

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 2466وَعَنْ عُمَرَ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَتَعَوَّذُ مِنْ خَمْسٍ: مِنَ الْجُبْنِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَسُوءِ الْعُمُرِ وَفِتْنَةِ الصَّدْرِ وَعَذَابِ القَبرِ. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَالنَّسَائِيّ
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 5480كَانَ يَتَعَوَّذُ مِنَ الْجُبْنِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَسُوءِ الْعُمُرِ وَفِتْنَةِ الصَّدْرِ وَعَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1377Sahih Muslim 588cSunan an-Nasa'i 5509Sunan an-Nasa'i 5510Sahih Ibn Hibban 1019al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5438

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAmr b. Maymūn al-Awdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: died during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj, before al-Jamājim. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr: he died in 74 AH. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah, and Abū ʿUbayd: died in the year 75 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: he died in 76 AH, also said: the year 74 AH. And he said elsewhere: the year 76 AH or 77 AH
   عَمْرِو بْنِ مَيْمُونٍثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   نا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   نا
6. 6
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Mishkat al-Masabih 2466