Sunan Abi Dawud 2275
"The Child Belongs To The Bed"
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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا مَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ أَبُو يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ مَوْلَى الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ عَنْ رَبَاحٍ قَالَ
زَوَّجَنِي أَهْلِي أَمَةً لَهُمْ رُومِيَّةً فَوَقَعْتُ عَلَيْهَا فَوَلَدَتْ غُلاَمًا أَسْوَدَ مِثْلِي فَسَمَّيْتُهُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ وَقَعْتُ عَلَيْهَا فَوَلَدَتْ غُلاَمًا أَسْوَدَ مِثْلِي فَسَمَّيْتُهُ عُبَيْدَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ طَبَنَ لَهَا غُلاَمٌ لأَهْلِي رُومِيٌّ يُقَالُ لَهُ يُوحَنَّهْ فَرَاطَنَهَا بِلِسَانِهِ فَوَلَدَتْ غُلاَمًا كَأَنَّهُ وَزَغَةٌ مِنَ الْوَزَغَاتِ فَقُلْتُ لَهَا مَا هَذَا فَقَالَتْ هَذَا لِيُوحَنَّهْ فَرَفَعْنَا إِلَى عُثْمَانَ أَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ مَهْدِيٌّ قَالَ فَسَأَلَهُمَا فَاعْتَرَفَا فَقَالَ لَهُمَا أَتَرْضَيَانِ أَنْ أَقْضِيَ بَيْنَكُمَا بِقَضَاءِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَضَى أَنَّ الْوَلَدَ لِلْفِرَاشِ وَأَحْسِبُهُ قَالَ فَجَلَدَهَا وَجَلَدَهُ وَكَانَا مَمْلُوكَيْنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl
- Mahdī b. Maymūn Abū Yaḥyá
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Yaʿqūb
- al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd a freed slave of al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
- Rabāḥ
My people married me to a Roman slave-girl of theirs. I had intercourse with her, and she gave birth to a black (male) child like me. I named it Abdullah. I again had intercourse with her, and she gave birth to a black (male) child like me. I named it Ubaydullah. Then a Roman slave of my people, called Yuhannah, incited her, and spoke to her in his own unintelligible language. She gave birth to a son like a chameleon (red). I asked her: What is this? She replied: This belongs to Yuhannah. We then brought the case to Uthman (for a decision). I think Mahdi said these words. He inquired from both of them, and they acknowledged (the facts). He then said to them: Do you agree that I take the decision about you, which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had taken? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ decided that the child was to attributed to the one on whose bed it was born. And I think he said: He flogged her and flogged him, for they were slaves.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Weak Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 2275 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī | Remains Silentin سنن أبي داود, p. 2273 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
سئل عنه الدارقطني فقال رواه مهدي بن ميمون وجرير بن حازم عن محمد بن عبد الله بن أبي يعقوب عن الحسن بن سعد عن رباح عن عثمان وخالفهم حجاج بن أرطأة فرواه عن الحسن بن سعد عن أبيه وأسند الحديث عن علي بن أبي طالب عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم والقول الأول أصح
machine translationAl-Dāraquṭnī was asked about it and said: Mahdī b. Maymūn and Jarīr b. Ḥāzim narrated it from Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Yaʿqūb, from al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd, from Rabāḥ, from ʿUthmān. Ḥajjāj b. Arṭāh contradicted them, so he narrated it from al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd, from his father, and he traced the hadith back to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, from the Prophet ﷺ. The first account is more sound (aṣaḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2273 - Dāraquṭnī
رواه الحسن بن سعد واختلف عنه فرواه مهدي بن ميمون وجرير بن حازم عن محمد بن عبد الله بن أبي يعقوب عن الحسن بن سعد عن رباح عن عثمان وخالفهما حجاج بن أرطأة فرواه عن الحسن بن سعد عن أبيه وأسند الحديث عن علي بن أبي طالب عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم والقول الأول أصح
machine translationAl-Ḥasan b. Saʿd narrated it, and there is disagreement about him. Mahdī b. Maymūn and Jarīr b. Ḥāzim narrated it from Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Yaʿqūb, from al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd, from Rabāḥ, from ʿUthmān. Ḥajjāj b. Arṭāh contradicted them, so he narrated it from al-Ḥasan b. Saʿd, from his father, and he traced the hadith back to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, from the Prophet ﷺ. The first account is more sound (aṣaḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2273
Same hadith, other wordings
- Bulughul Maram 1137وَعَنْ عُثْمَانَ. عِنْدَ أَبِي دَاوُدَ.
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 17663Musnad Ahmad 23164Musnad Ahmad 23165Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 17981Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 12597
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةصريح في السماع
- unknown (majhūl)رَبَاحٍمجهولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 AH and 120 AHالْحَسَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ مَوْلَى الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 and 130 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي يَعْقُوبَثقةنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. during al-Mahdī's caliphate, or: 171 AH, or: 172 AHمَهْدِيُّ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍ أَبُو يَحْيَىثقةنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 223 AH, or 226 AHمُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة 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
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