Sunan Abi Dawud 3248
It Is Disliked To Swear By One's Forefathers
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حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا عَوْفٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
لاَ تَحْلِفُوا بِآبَائِكُمْ وَلاَ بِأُمَّهَاتِكُمْ وَلاَ بِالأَنْدَادِ وَلاَ تَحْلِفُوا إِلاَّ بِاللَّهِ وَلاَ تَحْلِفُوا بِاللَّهِ إِلاَّ وَأَنْتُمْ صَادِقُونَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Muʿādh
- my father
- ʿAwf
- Muḥammad b. Sīrīn
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: Do not swear by your fathers, or by your mothers, or by rivals to Allah; and swear by Allah only, and swear by Allah only when you are speaking the truth.
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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- Dāraquṭnī
وهو الصحيح
machine translationAnd this is the correct one (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3247 - 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 صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 3248
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 6647Sunan Abi Dawud 3250al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19881Musnad Abi Ya'la 5486
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 الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنىعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism and Shīʿismd. 146 AH, or 147 AHعَوْفٌثقة رمي بالقدر وبالتشيعنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 195 AH, or 196 AHأَبِيثقة متقننا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 237 AH or 238 AH; also said: 233 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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