Sunan Abi Dawud 2757

Translation

Abu Hurarirah reported the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ as saying “A Muslim ruler is shield by which a battle is fought.”

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 2753

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1841Sunan an-Nasa'i 4196al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7790al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8717Musnad Abi Ya'la 6329Musnad Abi Ya'la 6345

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   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
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Hurmuz al-Aʿraj

   trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AH
   الْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالم
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-Zinād

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AH
   أَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيه
   عن
4. 4
   Ibn Abī al-Zinād

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory changed when he came to Baghdad, and he was a jurist (faqīh)d. 174 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِصدوق ، تغير حفظه لما قدم بغداد ، وكان فقيها
   نا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 227 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ الْبَزَّازُثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.