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
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Jarrāḥ
- ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd
- Mūsá b. ʿUla b. Rabāḥ
- his father
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: What is evil in a man are alarming niggardliness and unrestrained cowardice.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- ابن القيسراني
هو إسناد متصل وقد احتج مسلم بموسى بن علي عن أبيه عن جماعة من الصحابة
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2507 - al-Albani
[له متابعة]
in صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 2511
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
Musnad Ahmad 8010Musnad Ahmad 8263Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 27140al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18633Musnad al-Bazzar 8822
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 الصحابةسمعت
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 82 AH, or 84 AH, or 85 AH, or 86 AHعَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَصدوقعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 117 AH, also said: 114 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 163 AHمُوسَى بْنِ عُلَيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍصدوق ربما أخطأعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil); he taught the recitation of the Quran for over seventy yearsd. 212 AH, or 213 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة فاضل ، أقرأ القرآن نيفا وسبعين سنةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 232 AH, or 237 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- 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
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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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