Sunan Abi Dawud 1681
On The Excellence Of Supplying Drinking Water
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ
أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ أُمَّ سَعْدٍ مَاتَتْ فَأَىُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ الْمَاءُ قَالَ فَحَفَرَ بِئْرًا وَقَالَ هَذِهِ لأُمِّ سَعْدٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Kathīr
- Isrāʾīl
- Abū Isḥāq
- a man
- Saʿd b. ʿUbādah
Sa'd asked: Messenger of Allah, Umm Sa'd has died; what form of sadaqah is best? He replied: Water (is best). He dug a well and said: It is for Umm Sa'd.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Goodin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 1681 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Soundin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 1681Another source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1912وَعَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ أُمَّ سَعْدٍ مَاتَتْ فَأَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «الْمَاءُ». فَحَفَرَ بِئْرًا وَقَالَ: هَذِهِ لأم سعد. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَالنَّسَائِيّ
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1679Sunan an-Nasa'i 3664Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2744al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5385al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6474al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1511
Narrators
- one of the Nuqabāʾ, chief of the Khazraj, and one of the generousd. 15 AH or 16 AH, also said: 14 AH, also said: 11 AH, aH, also said: 10 AHسَعْد بْن عُبَادَةأحد النقباء وسيد الخزرج ، وأحد الأجوادعن
- رجلعن
- 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 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- 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 AHإِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجةأنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفهحدثنا
- 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
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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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