Sunan Abi Dawud 1641
Situations Where Begging Is Allowed And Where It Is Not Allowed
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ عَنِ الأَخْضَرِ بْنِ عَجْلاَنَ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيِّ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ
أَنَّ رَجُلاً مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَسْأَلُهُ فَقَالَ أَمَا فِي بَيْتِكَ شَىْءٌ قَالَ بَلَى حِلْسٌ نَلْبَسُ بَعْضَهُ وَنَبْسُطُ بَعْضَهُ وَقَعْبٌ نَشْرَبُ فِيهِ مِنَ الْمَاءِ قَالَ ائْتِنِي بِهِمَا فَأَتَاهُ بِهِمَا فَأَخَذَهُمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِيَدِهِ وَقَالَ مَنْ يَشْتَرِي هَذَيْنِ قَالَ رَجُلٌ أَنَا آخُذُهُمَا بِدِرْهَمٍ قَالَ مَنْ يَزِيدُ عَلَى دِرْهَمٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلاَثًا قَالَ رَجُلٌ أَنَا آخُذُهُمَا بِدِرْهَمَيْنِ فَأَعْطَاهُمَا إِيَّاهُ وَأَخَذَ الدِّرْهَمَيْنِ وَأَعْطَاهُمَا الأَنْصَارِيَّ وَقَالَ اشْتَرِ بِأَحَدِهِمَا طَعَامًا فَانْبِذْهُ إِلَى أَهْلِكَ وَاشْتَرِ بِالآخَرِ قَدُومًا فَأْتِنِي بِهِ فَأَتَاهُ بِهِ فَشَدَّ فِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ عُودًا بِيَدِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ اذْهَبْ فَاحْتَطِبْ وَبِعْ وَلاَ أَرَيَنَّكَ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا فَذَهَبَ الرَّجُلُ يَحْتَطِبُ وَيَبِيعُ فَجَاءَ وَقَدْ أَصَابَ عَشَرَةَ دَرَاهِمَ فَاشْتَرَى بِبَعْضِهَا ثَوْبًا وَبِبَعْضِهَا طَعَامًا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ هَذَا خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْ أَنْ تَجِيءَ الْمَسْأَلَةُ نُكْتَةً فِي وَجْهِكَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنَّ الْمَسْأَلَةَ لاَ تَصْلُحُ إِلاَّ لِثَلاَثَةٍ لِذِي فَقْرٍ مُدْقِعٍ أَوْ لِذِي غُرْمٍ مُفْظِعٍ أَوْ لِذِي دَمٍ مُوجِعٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah
- ʿĪsá b. Yūnus
- al-Akhḍar b. ʿAjlān
- Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī
- Anas b. Mālik
A man of the Ansar came to the Prophet ﷺ and begged from him. He (the Prophet) asked: Have you nothing in your house? He replied: Yes, a piece of cloth, a part of which we wear and a part of which we spread (on the ground), and a wooden bowl from which we drink water. He said: Bring them to me. He then brought these articles to him and he (the Prophet) took them in his hands and asked: Who will buy these? A man said: I shall buy them for one dirham. He said twice or thrice: Who will offer more than one dirham? A man said: I shall buy them for two dirhams. He gave these to him and took the two dirhams and, giving them to the Ansari, he said: Buy food with one of them and hand it to your family, and buy an axe and bring it to me. He then brought it to him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ fixed a handle on it with his own hands and said: Go, gather firewood and sell it, and do not let me see you for a fortnight. The man went away and gathered firewood and sold it. When he had earned ten dirhams, he came to him and bought a garment with some of them and food with the others. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then said: This is better for you than that begging should come as a spot on your face on the Day of Judgment. Begging is right only for three people: one who is in grinding poverty, one who is seriously in debt, or one who is responsible for compensation and finds it difficult to pay.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن أبي داود, p. 1641 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Bukhari
ونقل عن البخاري أنه قال لم يصح حديثه
machine translationIt was reported from al-Bukhārī that he said: His ḥadīth is not authentic.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1636 - ابن الملقن
قال عبد الحق في أحكامه وأبو بكر راويه عن أنس لم أجد أحدا ينسبه قلت قد قال الترمذي في جامعه إنه عبد الله الحنفي قال ابن القطان وعبد الله لا أعرف أحدا نقل عدالته وهو علة الخبر ولذلك حسنه الترمذي وتبع الذهبي ابن القطان فقال في المغني إنه تابعي مجهول نعم ذكره ابن عبد البر في كناه ولم ينسبه ونقل عن البخاري أنه قال لم يصح حديثه
machine translationʿAbd al-Ḥaqq said in his Aḥkām: As for Abū Bakr, who narrates it from Anas, I have not found anyone who identifies his lineage. I say: al-Tirmidhī said in his Jāmiʿ that he is ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥanafī. Ibn al-Qaṭṭān said: As for ʿAbdullāh, I do not know anyone who reported his reliability (ʿadālah), and this is the defect of the report, and for that reason al-Tirmidhī graded it good (ḥasan). Al-Dhahabī followed Ibn al-Qaṭṭān and said in al-Mughnī that he is an unknown (majhūl) Follower (tābiʿī). Yes, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr mentioned him in his work on kunyas (al-Kunā) but did not identify his lineage, and he reported from al-Bukhārī that he said: His ḥadīth is not authentic.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1636 - Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
الحديث معلول بأبي بكر الحنفي فإني لا أعرف أحدا نقل عدالته فهو مجهول الحال وإنما حسن الترمذي حديثه على عادته في قبول المساتير وقد روى عنه جماعة ليسوا من مشاهير أهل العلم وهم عبد الرحمن وعبيد الله ابنا شميط وعمهما الأخضر بن عجلان والأخضر وابن أخيه عبيد الله ثقتان وأما عبد الرحمن فلا يعرف حاله
machine translationThe ḥadīth is defective (maʿlūl) because of Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī, for I do not know anyone who reported his reliability (ʿadālah), so he is of unknown condition (majhūl al-ḥāl). Al-Tirmidhī graded his ḥadīth good (ḥasan) only in keeping with his habit of accepting those whose status is concealed (mastūr). A group narrated from him who are not among the famous scholars: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and ʿUbaydullāh, the two sons of Shumayṭ, and their paternal uncle al-Akhḍar b. ʿAjlān. Al-Akhḍar and his nephew ʿUbaydullāh are trustworthy (thiqah), but as for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, his condition is not known.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1636 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
الأخضر بن عجلان قال يحيى بن معين صالح وقال أبو حاتم الرازي يكتب حديثه
machine translational-Akhḍar b. ʿAjlān: Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said: acceptable (ṣāliḥ). Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: His ḥadīth is to be written down.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1636
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- al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث حسن لا نعرفه إلا من حديث الأخضر بن عجلان
machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan) ḥadīth. We do not know it except from the narration of al-Akhḍar b. ʿAjlān.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1636 - Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
ضعفه الأزدي بالأخضر بن عجلان في سنده
machine translational-Azdī declared it weak (ḍaʿīf) because of al-Akhḍar b. ʿAjlān in its chain.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1636 - Shuayb al-Arnaut
إسناده ضعيف وقوله: "إن المسألة... " شواهد تصح بها
machine translationIts chain is weak (ḍaʿīf), and his statement: "Indeed asking..." has supporting narrations (shawāhid) by which it becomes authentic.
in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 1641
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1851وَعَن أنس بن مَالك: أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَتَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَسْأَلُهُ فَقَالَ: «أَمَا فِي بَيْتك شَيْء؟» قَالَ بَلَى حِلْسٌ نَلْبَسُ بَعْضَهُ وَنَبْسُطُ بَعْضَهُ وَقَعْبٌ نَشْرَبُ فِيهِ مِنَ الْمَ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 20525al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6795al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7971
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- his status is not known.أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيِّلا يعرف حاله .عن
- truthful (ṣadūq)الْأَخْضَرِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَصدوقعن
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AHعِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَثقة مأموننا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَثقة عابدحدثنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
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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