Sunan Abi Dawud 3588
How should the disputants sit before the judge
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ حَدَّثَنَا مُصْعَبُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ
قَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّ الْخَصْمَيْنِ يَقْعُدَانِ بَيْنَ يَدَىِ الْحَكَمِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak
- Muṣʿab b. Thābit
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave the decision that the two adversaries should be made to sit in front of the judge.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak Chain | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif Isnaad | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Weak Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3588 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
في إسناده مصعب بن ثابت لا يحتج بحديثه
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Muṣʿab b. Thābit, whose hadith cannot be used as evidence (lā yuḥtajju bi-ḥadīthihi).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3586 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
في إسناده مصعب بن ثابت بن عبد الله بن الزبير وهو ضعيف
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Muṣʿab b. Thābit b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3586 - ابن الملقن
ومصعب هذا ضعفوه
machine translationThis Muṣʿab was graded weak (ḍaʿīf) by the scholars.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3586 - 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. 3588
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3786عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا قَالَ: قَضَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّ الْخَصْمَيْنِ يَقْعُدَانِ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ الْحَاكِمِ. رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 16104al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14868al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20519al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7029
Narrators
- He was the first child born in Islam in Medina from among the Muhājirūnd. 72 AH, or 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِكان أول مولود في الإسلام بالمدينة من المهاجرينعن
- lenient in hadith (layyin al-ḥadīth), and he was a worshipperd. 157 AHمُصْعَبُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍلين الحديث ، وكان عابدانا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة 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
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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