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Sunan Abi Dawud 2935

Regarding Appointing A Secretary (Katib)

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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا نُوحُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ كَعْبٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَوْزَاءِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

السِّجِلُّ كَاتِبٌ كَانَ لِلنَّبِيِّ ﷺ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
  2. Nūḥ b. Qays
  3. Yazīd b. Kaʿb
  4. ʿAmr b. Mālik
  5. Abū al-Jawzāʾ
  6. Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ has a secretary named Sijill.

Grades by grader

al-AlbaniWeakin ضعيف أبي داود, p. 2935fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidDaiffawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiDaiffawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • Qurṭubī

    في إسناده مقال

    machine translationThere is some criticism (maqāl) of its chain of transmission.

    in سنن أبي داود, p. 2931
  • ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī

    والحديث سكت عنه المنذري

    machine translationAl-Mundhirī was silent about this hadith.

    in سنن أبي داود, p. 2931
  • al-Albani

    سكت عنه [وقد قال في رسالته لأهل مكة كل ما سكت عنه فهو صالح]

    machine translationHe (Abū Dāwūd) remained silent about it [and he said in his letter to the people of Mecca: everything I have remained silent about is acceptable (ṣāliḥ)].

    in ضعيف سنن أبي داود, p. 2935

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 12203Musnad Ahmad 13264Sahih Ibn Hibban 4557al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12825al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1145al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20461al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20462Musnad al-Bazzar 5303al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11300al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11301

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. Abū al-Jawzāʾ
    often transmits mursal reports, trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH
    أَبِي الْجَوْزَاءِيرسل كثيراً ، ثقة
    عن
  3. ʿAmr b. Mālik
    Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 129 AH
    عَمْرِو بْنِ مَالِكٍصدوق له أوهام
    عن
  4. Yazīd b. Kaʿb
    unknown (majhūl)
    يَزِيدَ بْنِ كَعْبٍمجهول .
    عن
  5. Nūḥ b. Qays
    truthful (ṣadūq), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 183 AH, or: 184 AH
    نُوحُ بْنُ قَيْسٍصدوق رمي بالتشيع
    نا
  6. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
    قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  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

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

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

Commentaries

ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)

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