Sunan Abi Dawud 3601

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The testimony of a deceitful man or woman, of an adulterer and adulteress, and of one who harbours rancour against his brother is not allowable.

Notes

• حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَلَفِ بْنِ طَارِقٍ الرَّازِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَى، بِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " لاَ تَجُوزُ شَهَادَةُ خَائِنٍ وَلاَ خَائِنَةٍ وَلاَ زَانٍ وَلاَ زَانِيَةٍ وَلاَ ذِي غِمْرٍ عَلَى أَخِيهِ

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  لا يصح من هذا شيء عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

  machine translationNone of this is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) from the Prophet ﷺ. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3599
• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  لما أخرجه أبو داود سكت عنه وهذا دليل الصحة عنده

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3599
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  سنده قوي

  machine translationIts chain is strong. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3599
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وسنده قوي

  machine translationIts chain of transmission is strong (qawī). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3599

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 3782وَعَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «لَا تَجُوزُ شَهَادَةُ خَائِنٍ وَلَا خَائِنَةٍ وَلَا زَانٍ وَلَا زَانِيَةٍ وَلَا ذِي غِمْرٍ عَلَى أَخِيهِ». وَرَدَّ شَهَادَةَ ال

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 6899Musnad Ahmad 6940Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 15436Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 15440al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20634al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20923

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ

   One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاء
   عن
2. 2
   his father

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his hearing from his grandfather is established (thābit)d. between 81 and 90 AH
   شعيب بن محمد السهميصدوق ، ثبت سماعه من جده
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 118 AH
   عمرو بن شعيبصدوق
   عن
4. 4
   Sulaymān b. Mūsá al-Ashdaq

   truthful (ṣadūq), jurist, there is some softness in his hadith, and his mind became confused shortly before his deathd. 115 AH, or 119 AH
   سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مُوسَىصدوق , فقيه , في حديثه بعض لين , وخولط قبل موته بقليل
   عن
5. 5
   Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Tanūkhī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an imām; Aḥmad ranked him equal to al-Awzāʿī, and Abū Mushir preferred him over him, but he became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. 167 AH or 168 AH
   سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِثقة إمام ، سواه أحمد بالأوزاعي ، وقدمه أبو مسهر ، لكنه اختلط في آخر أمره
   نا
6. 6
   Zayd b. Yaḥyá b. ʿUbayd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّثقة
   نا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. Khalaf al-Dārī

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. around 250 AH or after it
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَلَفِ بْنِ طَارِقٍ الرَّازِيُّمقبول
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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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Also in

Mishkat al-Masabih 3782