Sunan Abi Dawud 3766
Saying Bismillah over food
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حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ
كُنَّا إِذَا حَضَرْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ طَعَامًا لَمْ يَضَعْ أَحَدُنَا يَدَهُ حَتَّى يَبْدَأَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَإِنَّا حَضَرْنَا مَعَهُ طَعَامًا فَجَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ كَأَنَّمَا يُدْفَعُ فَذَهَبَ لِيَضَعَ يَدَهُ فِي الطَّعَامِ فَأَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِيَدِهِ ثُمَّ جَاءَتْ جَارِيَةٌ كَأَنَّمَا تُدْفَعُ فَذَهَبَتْ لِتَضَعَ يَدَهَا فِي الطَّعَامِ فَأَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِيَدِهَا وَقَالَ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَيَسْتَحِلُّ الطَّعَامَ الَّذِي لَمْ يُذْكَرِ اسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَإِنَّهُ جَاءَ بِهَذَا الأَعْرَابِيِّ يَسْتَحِلُّ بِهِ فَأَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهِ وَجَاءَ بِهَذِهِ الْجَارِيَةِ يَسْتَحِلُّ بِهَا فَأَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهَا فَوَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنَّ يَدَهُ لَفِي يَدِي مَعَ أَيْدِيهِمَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- al-Aʿmash
- Khaythamah
- Abū Ḥudhayfah
- Ḥudhayfah
The devil considers the food when Allah’s name is not mentioned over it, and he brought his nomad Arab that it might be lawful by means of him, so I seized his hand: then he brought this girl that it might be lawful by means of her, so I seized her hand. By Him in Whose hand my soul is, His hand is in my hand along with their hands.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih Muslim (2017) | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
هذا خطأ رواه الأعمش عن خيثمة عن أبي حذيفة الأرحبي عن حذيفة وليس هو من حديث زيد بن وهب فقلت لهما الوهم ممن هو قالا من معمر
machine translationThis is an error. Al-Aʿmash narrated it from Khaythamah, from Abū Ḥudhayfah al-Arḥabī, from Ḥudhayfah, and it is not from the hadith of Zayd b. Wahb. So I said to the two of them: "Who is the source of the mistake (wahm)?" They said: "From Maʿmar."
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3763 - أبو زرعة الرازي
هذا خطأ رواه الأعمش عن خيثمة عن أبي حذيفة الأرحبي عن حذيفة وليس هو من حديث زيد بن وهب فقلت لهما الوهم ممن هو قالا من معمر
machine translationThis is an error. Al-Aʿmash narrated it from Khaythamah, from Abū Ḥudhayfah al-Arḥabī, from Ḥudhayfah, and it is not from the hadith of Zayd b. Wahb. So I said to the two of them: "Who is the source of the mistake (wahm)?" They said: "From Maʿmar."
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3763
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2017bMusnad Ahmad 23796al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10715Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 25003Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19628Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19640Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 5283al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6738
Narrators
- An eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī), among the earliest to accept Islamd. 36 AH, also said 35 AH, and al-Ṭabarī considered it an errorحُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِصحابي جليل من السابقينعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 and 90 AHأَبِي حُذَيْفَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), and he used to narrate mursal reportsd. after 80 AH, before Abū Wāʾil, Ibn Qāniʿ dated it to the year 80 AH, also said: 85 AHخَيْثَمَةَثقة ، وكان يرسلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآنحدثنا
- 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
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