Sunan Abi Dawud 2425
Regarding Continuous Voluntary Fasting
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حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَمُسَدَّدٌ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ غَيْلاَنَ بْنِ جَرِيرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ الزِّمَّانِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ
أَنَّ رَجُلاً أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ تَصُومُ فَغَضِبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ عُمَرُ قَالَ رَضِينَا بِاللَّهِ رَبًّا وَبِالإِسْلاَمِ دِينًا وَبِمُحَمَّدٍ نَبِيًّا نَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ غَضَبِ اللَّهِ وَمِنْ غَضَبِ رَسُولِهِ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ عُمَرُ يُرَدِّدُهَا حَتَّى سَكَنَ غَضَبُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ بِمَنْ يَصُومُ الدَّهْرَ كُلَّهُ قَالَ لاَ صَامَ وَلاَ أَفْطَرَ قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ لَمْ يَصُمْ وَلَمْ يُفْطِرْ أَوْ مَا صَامَ وَلاَ أَفْطَرَ شَكَّ غَيْلاَنُ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ بِمَنْ يَصُومُ يَوْمَيْنِ وَيُفْطِرُ يَوْمًا قَالَ أَوَيُطِيقُ ذَلِكَ أَحَدٌ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ بِمَنْ يَصُومُ يَوْمًا وَيُفْطِرُ يَوْمًا قَالَ ذَلِكَ صَوْمُ دَاوُدَ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ بِمَنْ يَصُومُ يَوْمًا وَيُفْطِرُ يَوْمَيْنِ قَالَ وَدِدْتُ أَنِّي طُوِّقْتُ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ثَلاَثٌ مِنْ كُلِّ شَهْرٍ وَرَمَضَانُ إِلَى رَمَضَانَ فَهَذَا صِيَامُ الدَّهْرِ كُلِّهِ وَصِيَامُ عَرَفَةَ إِنِّي أَحْتَسِبُ عَلَى اللَّهِ أَنْ يُكَفِّرَ السَّنَةَ الَّتِي قَبْلَهُ وَالسَّنَةَ الَّتِي بَعْدَهُ وَصَوْمُ يَوْمِ عَاشُورَاءَ إِنِّي أَحْتَسِبُ عَلَى اللَّهِ أَنْ يُكَفِّرَ السَّنَةَ الَّتِي قَبْلَهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Sulaymān b. Ḥarb and Musaddad
- Ḥammād b. Zayd
- Ghaylān b. Jarīr
- ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad al-Zimmānī
- Abū Qatādah
A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: How do you fast, Messenger of Allah? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ became angry at what he said. When Umar observed this (his anger), he said: We are satisfied with Allah as Lord, with Islam as religion, and with Muhammad as Prophet. We seek refuge in Allah from the anger of Allah, and from the anger of His Apostle. Umar continued to repeat these words till his anger cooled down. He then asked: Messenger of Allah, what is the position of one who observes a perpetual fast? He replied: May he not fast or break his fast. Musaddad said in his version: He has neither fasted nor broken his fast. The narrator, Ghaylan, doubted the actual wordings. He asked: What is the position of one who fasts two days and does not fast one day? He said: Is anyone able to do that? He asked: What is the position of one who fasts every second day (i.e. fasts one day and does not fasts the next day)? He (the Prophet) said: This is the fast that David observed. He asked: Messenger of Allah, what is the position of one who fasts one day and breaks it for two days? He replied: I wish I were given the power to observe that. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The observance of three days' fast every month and of one Ramadan to the other (i.e. the fast of Ramadan every year) is (equivalent to) a perpetual fast. I seek from Allah that fasting on the day of Arafah may atone for the sins of the preceding and the coming year, and I seek from Allah that fasting on the day of Ashura' may atone for the sins of the preceding year.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح أبي داود, p. 2425 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih Muslim (1162) | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
سئل عن حديث عبد الله بن معبد الزماني عن أبي قتادة أن رسول الله سئل عن رجل صام الدهر فقال لا صام ولا أفطر وسئل عمن يصوم يومين ويفطر يوما قال وأيكم يطيق ذلك الحديث بطوله فقال يرويه غيلان بن جرير عن عبد الله بن معبد الزماني واختلف عنه فرواه قتادة واختلف عنه فقال سعيد بن أبي عروبة وحماد بن سلمة وقيل عن شعبة عن قتادة عن غيلان عن عبد الله بن معبد عن أبي قتادة ورواه منصور بن زاذان والحكم بن هشام عن قتادة عن عبد الله بن معبد عن أبي قتادة لم يذكر بينهما غيلان وقيل عن الحكم عن أيوب عن عبد الله بن معبد ولا يصح ذكر أيوب فيه ورواه شعبة بن الحجاج ومهدي بن ميمون وأبان العطار وأبو هلال الراسبي وحماد بن زيد عن غيلان عن عبد الله بن معبد عن أبي قتادة إلا أن أبا هلال من بينهم جعله عن أبي قتادة عن عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه والصحيح عن أبي قتادة أنه سمع رجلا سأل النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم عن الصيام فقال عمر بن الخطاب يا رسول الله كيف من يصوم الدهر ورواه حجاج بن الحجاج عن غيلان واختلف عنه فرواه إبراهيم بن طهمان عن حجاج عن غيلان عن عبد الله بن معبد عن أبي قتادة وخالفه هارون بن مسلم العجلي وكان ضعيفا رواه عن حجاج عن غيلان عن عبد الله بن معبد عن عبد الله بن أبي قتادة ووهم في ذكر عبد الله بن أبي قتادة والصواب قول قتادة وشعبة ومن وافقهما
machine translationHe was asked about the hadith of ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad al-Zimmānī, from Abū Qatādah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about a man who fasts perpetually, and he said: "He neither fasted nor broke his fast." He was also asked about one who fasts two days and breaks his fast one day, and he said: "And which of you is able to do that?" (the hadith in its full length). He said: It is narrated by Ghaylān b. Jarīr from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad al-Zimmānī, and there is disagreement about it from him. Qatādah narrated it, and there is disagreement about him: Saʿīd b. Abī ʿArūbah and Ḥammād b. Salamah said, and it is also said from Shuʿbah, from Qatādah, from Ghaylān, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad, from Abū Qatādah. Manṣūr b. Zādhān and al-Ḥakam b. Hishām narrated it from Qatādah, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad, from Abū Qatādah, without mentioning Ghaylān between them. It is also said from al-Ḥakam, from Ayyūb, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad, but the mention of Ayyūb in it is not sound. Shuʿbah b. al-Ḥajjāj, Mahdī b. Maymūn, Abān al-ʿAṭṭār, Abū Hilāl al-Rāsibī and Ḥammād b. Zayd narrated it from Ghaylān, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad, from Abū Qatādah, except that Abū Hilāl alone among them made it from Abū Qatādah, from ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, may Allah be pleased with him. The sound version is from Abū Qatādah that he heard a man ask the Prophet ﷺ about fasting, and ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb said: "O Messenger of Allah, what about one who fasts perpetually?" Ḥajjāj b. al-Ḥajjāj narrated it from Ghaylān, and there is disagreement about him: Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān narrated it from Ḥajjāj, from Ghaylān, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad, from Abū Qatādah. Hārūn b. Muslim al-ʿIjlī, who was weak (ḍaʿīf), contradicted him and narrated it from Ḥajjāj, from Ghaylān, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad, from ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Qatādah. He erred in mentioning ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Qatādah. The correct version is the statement of Qatādah, Shuʿbah and those who agree with them.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2421 - Dāraquṭnī
رواه أبو هلال الراسبي محمد بن سليم عن غيلان بن جرير عن عبد الله بن معبد الزماني عن أبي قتادة الأنصاري عن عمر عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وغير أبي هلال يرويه عن غيلان بن جرير عن عبد الله بن معبد عن أبي قتادة أن عمر سأل النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فيكون من مسند أبي قتادة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كذلك قال شعبة وأبان العطار وهو الصحيح
machine translationAbū Hilāl al-Rāsibī Muḥammad b. Sulaym narrated it from Ghaylān b. Jarīr, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad al-Zimmānī, from Abū Qatādah al-Anṣārī, from ʿUmar, from the Prophet ﷺ. Others besides Abū Hilāl narrate it from Ghaylān b. Jarīr, from ʿAbdullāh b. Maʿbad, from Abū Qatādah, that ʿUmar asked the Prophet ﷺ, so it is part of the musnad of Abū Qatādah from the Prophet ﷺ. So said Shuʿbah and Abān al-ʿAṭṭār, and it is the sound version.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2421
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 2413al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3229al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4697al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 4963Musnad al-Bazzar 9404Musnad Abi Ya'la 4581
Narrators
- He took part in Uḥud and the battles after itd. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān said: 40 AH, al-Wāqidī said: 54 AH, the people of Kufa reported that he died: 38 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in al-Awsaṭ, among those who died between 50 AH and 60 AHأَبُو قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَارِسُ رَسُولِ اللهِشهد أحدا وما بعدهاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 and 90 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَعْبَدٍ الزِّمَّانِيِّثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 129 AHغَيْلَانَ بْنِ جَرِيرٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.نا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHوَمُسَدَّدٌثقة 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
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