Sunan Abi Dawud 2154
Regarding The Command To Lower The Gaze
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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ عَنِ الْقَعْقَاعِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِهَذِهِ الْقِصَّةِ قَالَ
وَالأُذُنُ زِنَاهَا الاِسْتِمَاعُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- al-Layth
- Ibn ʿAjlān
- al-Qaʿqāʿ b. Ḥakīm
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ Bihadhih al-Qiṣṣah
The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Abu Hurairah through a different chain of narrators. This version adds “The fornication of ear is hearing.”
Notes
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ، عَنِ الْقَعْقَاعِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِهَذِهِ الْقِصَّةِ قَالَ " وَالأُذُنُ زِنَاهَا الاِسْتِمَاعُ
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good-Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Qurṭubī
قوله مدرك ذلك لا محالة كذا صح
machine translationHis statement "he will inevitably come upon that" – thus it is authentically reported (ṣaḥḥa).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2150
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 4904Musnad Ahmad 8598Sahih Ibn Hibban 4422Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 37al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2221
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AHالْقَعْقَاعِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), except that the hadiths of Abū Hurayrah became confused for him (ikhtalaṭat ʿalayhi)d. 148 AH, or 149 AH, al-Dhahabī said in al-Kāshif 138 AHابْنِ عَجْلَانَصدوق إلا أنه اختلطت عليه أحاديث أبي هريرةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AHاللَّيْثُثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهورنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHقُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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