Sunan Abi Dawud 3756
If two invitations come at the same time, which should be given precedence?
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حَدَّثَنَا هَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ السَّلاَمِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ أَبِي خَالِدٍ الدَّالاَنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلاَءِ الأَوْدِيِّ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ
إِذَا اجْتَمَعَ الدَّاعِيَانِ فَأَجِبْ أَقْرَبَهُمَا بَابًا فَإِنَّ أَقْرَبَهُمَا بَابًا أَقْرَبُهُمَا جِوَارًا وَإِنْ سَبَقَ أَحَدُهُمَا فَأَجِبِ الَّذِي سَبَقَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hannād b. al-Sarī
- ʿAbd al-Salām b. Ḥarb
- Abū Khālid al-Dālānī
- Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Awdī
- Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥimyarī
- a man Min Aṣḥāb al-Nabī ﷺ
- al-Nabī ﷺ
A companion of the Prophet ﷺ reported him as saying: When two people come together to issue an invitation, accept that of the one whose door is nearer in neighbourhood, but if one of them comes before the other accept the invitation of the one who comes first.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Weak Chainin سنن أبي داود, p. 3753 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| 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 أبو خالد يزيد بن عبد الرحمن المعروف بالدالاني وقد وثقه أبو حاتم الرازي وقال الإمام أحمد لا بأس به وقال ابن معين ليس به بأس وقال أبو حاتم ومحمد بن حبان لا يجوز الاحتجاج به وقال ابن عدي وفي حديثه لين إلا أنه يكتب حديثه وحكي عن شريك أنه قال كان مرجئا
machine translationIn its chain is Abū Khālid Yazīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, known as al-Dālānī. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī declared him trustworthy (thiqah), and Imam Aḥmad said: "There is no harm in him." Ibn Maʿīn said: "There is nothing wrong with him." Abū Ḥātim and Muḥammad b. Ḥibbān said: "It is not permissible to use him as evidence." Ibn ʿAdī said: "There is some weakness (layyin) in his hadith, but his hadith is to be written down." It is also reported from Sharīk that he said: "He was a Murjiʾite."
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3753
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3223وَعَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «إِذَا اجْتَمَعَ الدَّاعِيَانِ فَأَجِبْ أَقْرَبَهُمَا بَابًا وَإِنْ سَبَقَ أَحَدُهُمَا فَأَجِبِ ال
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist.d. between 91 and 100 AHحُمَيْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِمْيَرِيِّثقة فقيه.عن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 141 AH and 150 AHأَبِي الْعَلَاءِ الْأَوْدِيِّثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes (yukhṭiʾ kathīran), and he used to practice concealment (tadlīs).d. 150 AHأَبِي خَالِدٍ الدَّالَانِيِّصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، وكان يدلس .عن
- trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓ, has denounced reports (manākīr)d. 186 AH, or 187 AHعَبْدِ السَّلَامِ بْنِ حَرْبٍثقة حافظ ، له مناكيرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AHهَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّثقةحدثنا
- 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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