Sunan Abi Dawud 2082
A Person Looks At A Woman Whom He Desires To Marry
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ وَاقِدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
إِذَا خَطَبَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَرْأَةَ فَإِنِ اسْتَطَاعَ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ إِلَى مَا يَدْعُوهُ إِلَى نِكَاحِهَا فَلْيَفْعَلْ قَالَ فَخَطَبْتُ جَارِيَةً فَكُنْتُ أَتَخَبَّأُ لَهَا حَتَّى رَأَيْتُ مِنْهَا مَا دَعَانِي إِلَى نِكَاحِهَا وَتَزَوُّجِهَا فَتَزَوَّجْتُهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ziyād
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- Dāwud b. Ḥuṣayn
- Wāqid b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman / Ibn Saʿd b. Muʿādh
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: When one of you asked a woman in marriage, if he is able to look at what will induce him to marry her, he should do so. He (Jabir) said: I asked a girl in marriage, I used to look at her secretly, until I looked at what induced me to marry her. I, therefore, married her.
Notes
قَالَ فَخَطَبْتُ جَارِيَةً فَكُنْتُ أَتَخَبَّأُ لَهَا حَتَّى رَأَيْتُ مِنْهَا مَا دَعَانِي إِلَى نِكَاحِهَا وَتَزَوُّجِهَا فَتَزَوَّجْتُهَا
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Goodin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 2082 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim | Soundin سنن أبي داود, p. 2078 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
في إسناده محمد بن إسحاق
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Muḥammad b. Isḥāq.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2078 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
سنده حسن
machine translationIts chain is good (ḥasan).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2078 - Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
لا يصح
machine translationIt is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2078 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
رجاله ثقات
machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2078
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- Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
أعله بواقد بن عبد الرحمن وقال المعروف واقد بن عمرو
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2078 - Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
أعل ابن القطان بواقد بن عبد الرحمن وقال المعروف واقد بن عمرو
machine translationIbn al-Qaṭṭān found the report defective (aʿalla) because of Wāqid b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and said: the well-known one is Wāqid b. ʿAmr.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2078 - Ibn al-Qaṭṭān
وهذا حديث لا يصح
machine translationThis ḥadīth is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2078
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3106عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا خَطَبَ أَحَدُكُمُ الْمَرْأَةَ فَإِنِ اسْتَطَاعَ أَنْ يَنْظُرَ إِلَى مَا يَدْعُوهُ إِلَى نِكَاحهَا فَلْيفْعَل». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 14586Musnad Ahmad 14869Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 17675al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 13617al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2696
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- unknown (majhūl)وَاقِدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعْدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍمجهولعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) except in [narrations from] ʿIkrimah, and he was accused of holding the opinion of the Khawārij.d. 133 AH, also said 135 AHدَاوُدَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍثقة إلا في عكرمة ، ورمي برأي الخوارجعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah); there is some criticism concerning his narrations from al-Aʿmash aloned. 176 AH, or 177 AH, or 179 AHعَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ زِيَادٍثقة ، في حديثه عن الأعمش وحده مقالنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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