Sunan Abi Dawud 3582
How to Judge
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حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكٌ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ حَنَشٍ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ قَالَ
بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ قَاضِيًا فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ تُرْسِلُنِي وَأَنَا حَدِيثُ السِّنِّ وَلاَ عِلْمَ لِي بِالْقَضَاءِ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَيَهْدِي قَلْبَكَ وَيُثَبِّتُ لِسَانَكَ فَإِذَا جَلَسَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ الْخَصْمَانِ فَلاَ تَقْضِيَنَّ حَتَّى تَسْمَعَ مِنَ الآخَرِ كَمَا سَمِعْتَ مِنَ الأَوَّلِ فَإِنَّهُ أَحْرَى أَنْ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكَ الْقَضَاءُ قَالَ فَمَا زِلْتُ قَاضِيًا أَوْ مَا شَكَكْتُ فِي قَضَاءٍ بَعْدُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿAwn
- Sharīk
- Simāk
- Ḥanash
- ʿAlī ʿAlayh al-Salām
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me to the Yemen as judge, and I asked: Messenger of Allah, are you sending me when I am young and have no knowledge of the duties of a judge? He replied: Allah will guide your heart and keep your tongue true. When two litigants sit in front of you, do not decide till you hear what the other has to say as you heard what the first had to say; for it is best that you should have a clear idea of the best decision. He said: I had been a judge (for long); or he said (the narrator is doubtful): I have no doubts about a decision afterwards.
Notes
قَالَ فَمَا زِلْتُ قَاضِيًا أَوْ مَا شَكَكْتُ فِي قَضَاءٍ بَعْدُ
machine translationHe said: "I have not ceased to be a judge since then," or: "I have not doubted any judgment since."
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Goodin صحيح أبي داود, p. 3582 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
حديث حسن
machine translationA good (ḥasan) hadith.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3580 - Ibn Ḥazm
خبر ساقط لأن شريكا مدلس وسماك بن حرب يقبل التلقين وحنش ساقط مطرح
machine translationA fallen report, because Sharīk is a concealer of defects (mudallis), Simāk b. Ḥarb accepts prompting (talqīn), and Ḥanash is fallen and discarded (maṭrūḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3580 - al-Tirmidhi
حديث حسن
machine translationA good (ḥasan) hadith.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3580 - Shuayb al-Arnaut
صحيح بطرقه، دون قوله: "فإذا جلس بين يديك خصمان فلا تقضين حتى نسمع من الآخر كما سمعت من الأول، فإنه أحرى أن يتبين لك القضاء"
machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) through its various routes, except for his saying: "When two disputants sit before you, do not judge until you have heard from the other as you heard from the first, for that is more likely to make the judgment clear to you."
in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3582
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3738عَن عَلِيٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ قَاضِيًا فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ تُرْسِلُنِي وَأَنَا حَدِيثُ السِّنِّ وَلَا عِلْمَ لِي بِالْقَضَاءِ؟ فَقَالَ: «إِنَّ
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 3585Musnad Ahmad 26491Musnad Ahmad 745Musnad Ahmad 882al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 11478al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20549al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21304al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8385al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7025al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7033
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), has errors and transmits mursal reportsd. between 81 and 90 AHحَنَشٍصدوق له أوهام ويرسلعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) who made many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran); his memory changed after he was appointed judge of Kufa; he was just, virtuous, devout, and severe against the people of innovation (ahl al-bidaʿ)d. 177 AH, or 178 AHشَرِيكٌصدوق يخطئ كثيرا , تغير حفظه منذ ولي القضاء بالكوفة ، وكان عادلا فاضلا عابدا شديدا على أهل البدعنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 225 AH, in Ibn ʿAsākir's book: the year 224 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
شرح مشكل الآثار
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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