Sunan Abi Dawud 2644

Translation

Al Miqdad bin Al Aswad reported that he said “Apostle of Allaah ﷺ tell me if I meet a man who is a disbeliever and he fights with me and cuts off one hand of mine with the sword and then takes refuge by a tree and says “I embraced Islam for Allah’s sake. Should I kill him, Apostle of Allaah ﷺ after he uttered it (the credo of Islam)? The Apostle of Allaah ﷺ said “Do not kill him”. I said “Apostle of Allaah ﷺ, he cut off my hand. The Apostle of Allaah ﷺ said, Do not kill him. I f you kill him, he will become like you before you kill him and you will become like him before he uttered his credo which he has uttered now.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه الزهري واختلف عنه فرواه صالح بن كيسان وإسحاق بن راشد وابن أخي الزهري وابن جريج وليث بن سعد والنعمان بن راشد وعقيل بن خالد وعبد الحميد بن جعفر وأسامة بن زيد وعبد الرحمن بن إسحاق عن الزهري عن عطاء بن يزيد عن عبيد الله بن عدي بن الخيار عن المقداد بن الأسود ورواه الأوزاعي عن إبراهيم بن مرة عن الزهري واختلف عنه فرواه أبو إسحاق الفزاري ومحمد بن شعيب ومحمد بن حمير والوليد بن مزيد عن الأوزاعي عن إبراهيم بن مرة عن الزهري عن عبيد الله بن عدي بن الخيار عن المقداد لم يذكروا فيه عطاء بن يزيد واختلف عن الوليد بن مسلم فرواه أبو الوليد القرشي عن الوليد عن الأوزاعي والليث بن سعد عن الزهري عن عبيد الله بن عدي عن المقداد لم يذكر عطاء بن يزيد وأسقط إبراهيم بن مرة وخالفه عيسى بن مساور فرواه عن الوليد عن الأوزاعي عن الزهري عن حميد بن عبد الرحمن عن عبيد الله بن عدي عن المقداد لم يذكر فيه إبراهيم بن مرة وجعل مكان عطاء بن يزيد حميد بن عبد الرحمن ورواه الفريابي عن الأوزاعي عن إبراهيم بن مرة عن الزهري مرسلا عن المقداد والصحيح قول صالح بن كيسان ومن تابعه

  machine translationAl-Zuhrī narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān, Isḥāq b. Rāshid, the nephew of al-Zuhrī, Ibn Jurayj, al-Layth b. Saʿd, al-Nuʿmān b. Rāshid, ʿUqayl b. Khālid, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar, Usāmah b. Zayd and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Isḥāq narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAdī b. al-Khiyār, from al-Miqdād b. al-Aswad. Al-Awzāʿī narrated it from Ibrāhīm b. Murrah, from al-Zuhrī, and there is disagreement about him as well. Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, Muḥammad b. Shuʿayb, Muḥammad b. Ḥimyar and al-Walīd b. Mazyad narrated it from al-Awzāʿī, from Ibrāhīm b. Murrah, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAdī b. al-Khiyār, from al-Miqdād; they did not mention ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd in it. There is disagreement about al-Walīd b. Muslim: Abū al-Walīd al-Qurashī narrated it from al-Walīd, from al-Awzāʿī and al-Layth b. Saʿd, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAdī, from al-Miqdād; he did not mention ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd and omitted Ibrāhīm b. Murrah. ʿĪsā b. Musāwir contradicted him and narrated it from al-Walīd, from al-Awzāʿī, from al-Zuhrī, from Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAdī, from al-Miqdād; he did not mention Ibrāhīm b. Murrah in it, and put Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān in the place of ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd. Al-Firyābī narrated it from al-Awzāʿī, from Ibrāhīm b. Murrah, from al-Zuhrī, as a mursal report from al-Miqdād. The correct one is the version of Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān and those who followed him. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 2639

Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih Muslim 95cيَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ لَقِيتُ رَجُلاً مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ
• Misykatul Mashabih 3449وَعَنِ الْمِقْدَادِ بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ لَقِيتُ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ فَاقْتَتَلْنَا فَضَرَبَ إِحْدَى يَدَيَّ بِالسَّيْفِ فقطعهما ثُمَّ لَاذَ مِنِّي بِشَجَرَةٍ فَقَالَ: أَسْلَمْتُ لِلَّهِ و
• Shahih al-Bukhari 4019أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ لَقِيتُ رَجُلاً مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ فَاقْتَتَلْنَا فَضَرَبَ إِحْدَى يَدَىَّ بِالسَّيْفِ فَقَطَعَهَا ثُمَّ لاَذَ مِنِّي بِشَجَرَةٍ فَقَالَ أَسْلَمْتُ لِلَّهِ آأَقْتُلُهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ بَعْ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 23831al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18766al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18771al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18772al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16924Musnad al-Bazzar 2120

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Miqdād b. ʿAmr b. Thaʿlabah al-Bahrānī

   A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islam (al-sābiqūn)d. 33 AH
   الْمِقْدَاد بْن عَمْرو بْن ثَعْلَبَة الْبَهْرَانِيّصحابي مشهور ، من السابقين
   أخبره
2. 2
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAdī b. al-Khiyār al-Nawfalī

   He was of discerning age at the Conquest, and so was counted among the Companions. Al-ʿIjlī and others counted him among the trustworthy senior Successorsd. 95 AH or 96 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ الْخِيَارِوكان هو في الفتح مميزا فعدّ في الصحابة لذلك . وعدّه العجلي وغيره في ثقات كبار التابعين
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 107 AH
   عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّثقة
   عن
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   اللَّيْثِثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   عن
6. 6
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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