Sunan Abi Dawud 3750

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said: It is a duty of every Muslim (to provide hospitality) to a guest for a night. If anyone comes in the morning to his house, it is a debt due to him. If he wishes, he may fulfil it, and if he wishes he may leave it.

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• ابن الملقن

  إسناد صحيح

  machine translationThe chain of transmission is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3747
• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  إنما هو المقدام بن معدي كرب

  machine translationIt is only al-Miqdām b. Maʿdī Karib. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3747
• أبو زرعة الرازي

  الصحيح المقدام بن معدي كرب وكنيته أبو كريمة

  machine translationThe correct name is al-Miqdām b. Maʿdī Karib, and his kunyah is Abū Karīmah. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3747
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وإسناده على شرط الصحيح

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3747

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 3677Musnad Ahmad 17195al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18801

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Miqdām b. Maʿdī Karib al-Kindī

   a well-known Companiond. 87 AH, also said: 83 AH, also said: 86 AH, also said: 88 AH
   الْمِقْدَام بْن مَعْدِي كَرِب الْكِنْدِيّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   عَامِرٍثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Abū ʿAwānah

   trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AH
   أَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Khalaf b. Hishām

   trustworthy (thiqah), he has his own choice (ikhtiyār) in the Qurʾānic readingsd. 229 AH, also said: 228 AH
   وَخَلَفُ بْنُ هِشَامٍثقة ، له اختيار في القراءات
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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