Sunan Abi Dawud 3602
Testimony of a bedouin against townpeople
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ وَنَافِعُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ عَنِ ابْنِ الْهَادِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
لاَ تَجُوزُ شَهَادَةُ بَدَوِيٍّ عَلَى صَاحِبِ قَرْيَةٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Saʿīd al-Hamdānī
- Ibn and Hb
- Yaḥyá b. Ayyūb Wanāfiʿ b. Yazīd
- Ibn al-Hād
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAṭāʾ
- ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: The testimony of a nomad Arab against a townsman is not allowable.
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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- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
رجال إسناده احتج بهم مسلم في صحيحه
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3600 - Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
هذا الحديث مما تفرد به محمد بن عمرو بن عطاء عن عطاء بن يسار
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3600
Same hadith, other wordings
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 2367لاَ تَجُوزُ شَهَادَةُ بَدَوِيٍّ عَلَى صَاحِبِ قَرْيَةٍ
- Misykatul Mashabih 3783وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «لَا تَجُوزُ شَهَادَةُ بَدَوِيٍّ عَلَى صَاحِبِ قَرْيَةٍ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَه
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 2660Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1151Sunan an-Nasa'i 3330al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15772al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21242Musnad al-Bazzar 8736al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5465Musnad Abi Ya'la 6448al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7048
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), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 120 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 139 AH.ابْنِ الْهَادِثقة مكثر .عن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 168 AHوَنَافِعُ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة عابدأخبرني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AHابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابدأخبرنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 253 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- 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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