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Sunan Abi Dawud 3665

Regarding telling stories

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حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُسْهِرٍ حَدَّثَنِي عَبَّادُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ الْخَوَّاصُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرٍو السَّيْبَانِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ السَّيْبَانِيِّ عَنْ عَوْفِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الأَشْجَعِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ

لاَ يَقُصُّ إِلاَّ أَمِيرٌ أَوْ مَأْمُورٌ أَوْ مُخْتَالٌ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Maḥmūd b. Khālid
  2. Abū Mushir
  3. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbbād al-Khawwāṣ
  4. Yaḥyá b. Abū ʿAmr al-Saybānī
  5. ʿAmr b. ʿAbdullāh al-Saybānī
  6. ʿAwf b. Mālik al-Ashjaʿī
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Only a ruler, or one put in charge, or one who is presumptuous, gives instructions.

Grades by grader

al-AlbaniGood-Soundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidHasan Sahihfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiIsnaad Hasanfawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 240وَعَن عَوْف بن مَالك الْأَشْجَعِيّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا يَقُصُّ إِلَّا أَمِيرٌ أَوْ مَأْمُورٌ أَو مختال». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَرَوَاهُ الدَّارِمِيُّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 24571Musnad Ahmad 24583al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16219al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16264al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 978

Narrators

  1. ʿAwf b. Mālik b. Abī ʿAwf
    A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), from those who accepted Islam at the Conquest of Mecca.d. 73 AH
    عَوْفُ بْنُ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَبِي عَوْفٍصحابي مشهور من مسلمة الفتح
    عن
  2. ʿAmr b. ʿAbdullāh
    acceptable (maqbūl)
    عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ السَّيْبَانِيِّمقبول
    عن
  3. Yaḥyá b. Abī ʿAmr al-Saybānī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 148 AH, also said after 150 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي عَمْرٍو السَّيْبَانِيِّثقة
    عن
  4. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbbād al-Khawwāṣ
    truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. between 181 and 190 AH
    عَبَّادُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ الْخَوَّاصُصدوق يهم
    نا
  5. ʿAbd al-Aʿlá b. Mushir al-Ghassānī
    trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 218 AH
    أَبُو مُسْهِرٍثقة فاضل
    نا
  6. Maḥmūd b. Khālid
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 245 AH, or shortly before or after it, or 247 AH, or 249 AH
    مَحْمُودُ بْنُ خَالِدٍثقة
    حدثنا
  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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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)

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Mishkat al-Masabih 240

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