Sunan Abi Dawud 2270

Translation

Three persons were brought to Ali (Allah be pleased with him) when he was in the Yemen. They and sexual intercourse with a woman during a single state of purity. He asked two of them: Do you acknowledge this child for this (man)? They replied: No. He then put this (question) to all of them. Whenever he asked two of them, they replied in the negative. He, therefore, cast a lot among them, and attributed the child to the one who received the lot. He imposed two-third of the blood-money (i.e. the price of the mother) on him. This was then mentioned to the Prophet ﷺ and he laughed so much that his molar teeth appeared.

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• العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

  حديث عبد خير رجال إسناده ثقات غير أن الصواب فيه الإرسال

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 2268
• Khaṭṭābī

  قد تكلم بعضهم في إسناد حديث زيد بن أرقم

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 2268
• Shuayb al-Arnaut

  رجاله ثقات إلا أن فيه اضطرابا

  in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 2270

Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 4996Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 23852Musnad al-Tayalisi 183al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7037

Narrators

1. 1
   Zayd b. Arqam al-Anṣārī

   a well-known Companiond. 66 AH, also said: 68 AH, also said 65 AH, also said: 60 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ أَرْقَمَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd Khayr

   mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AH
   عَبْدِ خَيْرٍمخضرم ، ثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
4. 4
   Ṣāliḥ b. Ṣāliḥ

   Aḥmad said: trustworthy, trustworthy (thiqah thiqah), and al-ʿIjlī deemed him trustworthyd. 153 AH
   صَالِحٍ الْهَمْدَانِيِّقال أحمد : ثقة ثقة ، ووثقه العجلي
   عن
5. 5
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   الثَّوْرِيُّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   أنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   نا
7. 7
   Abū ʿĀṣim Khushaysh b. Aṣram

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 251 AH, or 253 AH
   خُشَيْشُ بْنُ أَصْرَمَثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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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