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Sunan Abi Dawud 2511

Regarding Bravery And Cowardice

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُلَىِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ

شَرُّ مَا فِي رَجُلٍ شُحٌّ هَالِعٌ وَجُبْنٌ خَالِعٌ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Jarrāḥ
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd
  3. Mūsá b. ʿUla b. Rabāḥ
  4. his father
  5. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: What is evil in a man are alarming niggardliness and unrestrained cowardice.

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al-AlbaniSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidSahihfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiIsnaad Sahihfawazahmed0

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 1874وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «شَرُّ مَا فِي الرَّجُلِ شُحٌّ هَالِعٌ وَجُبْنٌ خَالِعٌ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    سمعت
  2. truthful (ṣadūq)d. 82 AH, or 84 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AH
    عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَصدوق
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 117 AH, also said: 114 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة
    عن
  4. truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 163 AH
    مُوسَى بْنِ عُلَيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍصدوق ربما أخطأ
    عن
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil); he taught the recitation of the Quran for over seventy yearsd. 212 AH, or 213 AH
    عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة فاضل ، أقرأ القرآن نيفا وسبعين سنة
    عن
  6. truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 232 AH, or 237 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِصدوق يخطئ
    حدثنا
  7. 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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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)

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