Sunan Abi Dawud 333

Translation

I embraced Islam and my (ignorance of the) religion made me anxious (to learn the essentials). I came to Abu Dharr. Abu Dharr said: The climate of Medina did not suit me. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered me to have a few camels and goats. He said to me: Drink their milk. (The narrator Hammad said): I doubt whether he (the Prophet) said: "their urine." Abu Dharr said: I was away from the watering place and I had my family with me. I would have sexual defilement and pray without purification. I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at noon. He was resting in the shade of the mosque along with a group of Companions. He (the Prophet) said: Abu Dharr. I said: Yes, I am ruined, Messenger of Allah. He said: What ruined you ? I said: I was away from the watering place and I had family with me. I used to be sexually defiled and pray without purification. He commanded (to bring) water for me. Then a black slave-girl brought a vessel of water that was shaking as the vessel was not full. I concealed myself behind a camel and took bath and them came (to the Prophet). The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Abu Dharr, clean earth is a means of ablution, even if you do not find water for ten years. When you find water, you should make it touch your skin. Abu Dawud said: This is transmitted by Hammad b. Zaid from Ayyub. This version does not mention the words "their urine." This is not correct. The words "their urine" occur only in the version reported by Anas and transmitted only by the people of Basrah.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ رَوَاهُ حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ لَمْ يَذْكُرْ أَبْوَالَهَا قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ هَذَا لَيْسَ بِصَحِيحٍ وَلَيْسَ فِي أَبْوَالِهَا إِلاَّ حَدِيثُ أَنَسٍ تَفَرَّدَ بِهِ أَهْلُ الْبَصْرَةِ

  machine translationAbū Dāwūd said: Ḥammād b. Zayd narrated it from Ayyūb, and he did not mention "their urine." Abū Dāwūd said: This is not sound, and there is nothing concerning "their urine" except the ḥadīth of Anas, in which the people of Basra were alone in transmitting it. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn al-Qaṭṭān

  وضعف ابن القطان في كتابه الوهم والإيهام هذا الحديث فقال وهذا حديث ضعيف بلا شك

  machine translationIbn al-Qaṭṭān declared this ḥadīth weak (ḍaʿīf) in his book al-Wahm wa-l-Īhām, saying: This is a weak (ḍaʿīf) ḥadīth without doubt. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 333
• Abū Daʾūd

  رواه حماد بن زيد عن أيوب لم يذكر أبوالها قال و أبوالها ليس بصحيح في هذا الحديث وليس في أبوالها إلا حديث أنس تفرد به أهل البصرة

  machine translationḤammād b. Zayd narrated it from Ayyūb, and he did not mention "their urine." He said: "And their urine" is not sound in this ḥadīth, and there is nothing concerning "their urine" except the ḥadīth of Anas, in which the people of Basra were alone in transmitting it. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 333
• Ibn al-Qaṭṭān

  هذا حديث ضعيف لا شك فيه

  machine translationThis is a weak (ḍaʿīf) hadith, without doubt. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 333
• Shuayb al-Arnaut

  صحيح لغيره دون قوله: "وأبوالها"

  machine translationSound due to supporting evidence (ṣaḥīḥ li-ghayrihi), except for the phrase: "and their urine." Report a problem

  in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 333

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 21305al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18976al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 1060Sunan al-Daraqutni 722Musnad al-Bazzar 10078al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6709

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AH
   أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابي
   قال
2. 2
   A man from Banī ʿĀmir
   رجل من بني عامر
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Qilābah al-Jarmī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, who often narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 104 AH, or 105 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AH
   أَبِي قِلَابَةَثقة فاضل ، كثير الإرسال
   عن
4. 4
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبَثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   عن
5. 5
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   نا
6. 6
   Mūsā b. Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 223 AH, or 226 AH
   مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة 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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