Sunan Abi Dawud 3778
Regarding eating meat
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حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مَعْشَرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
لاَ تَقْطَعُوا اللَّحْمَ بِالسِّكِّينِ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْ صَنِيعِ الأَعَاجِمِ وَانْهَسُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ أَهْنَأُ وَأَمْرَأُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Saʿīd b. Manṣūr
- Abū Maʿshar
- Hishām b. ʿUrwah
- his father
- ʿĀʾishah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Do not eat meat with a knife, for it is a foreign practice, but bite it, for it is more beneficial and wholesome. Abu Dawud said: This tradition is not strong.
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَلَيْسَ هُوَ بِالْقَوِيِّ
machine translationAbū Dāwūd said: "He is not strong."
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī | Weakin سنن أبي داود, p. 3775 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Weak Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3778 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| 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.
- Abū Daʾūd
حديث ليس بالقوي
machine translationA hadith that is not strong.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3775 - Abū Daʾūd
ليس هو بالقوي
machine translationIt is not strong.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3775 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
في إسناده أبو معشر السدي المدني واسمه نجيح وكان يحيى بن سعيد القطان لا يحدث عنه ويستضعفه جدا ويضحك إذا ذكره غيره وتكلم فيه غير واحد من الأئمة
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Abū Maʿshar al-Sindī al-Madanī, whose name is Najīḥ. Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān would not narrate from him and considered him very weak (istaḍʿafahu jiddan), and he would laugh when someone else mentioned him. More than one of the imams spoke against him.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3775 - Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī
أبو معشر له أحاديث مناكير منها هذا
machine translationAbū Maʿshar has some objectionable (munkar) hadiths, and this is one of them.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3775
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- ابن عدي
أبو معشر لا يتابع عليه وهو ضعيف
machine translationAbū Maʿshar is not corroborated in it, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3775 - Abū Daʾūd
وليس هو بالقوي
machine translationAnd it is not strong.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3775 - Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
هو منكر
machine translationIt is rejected (munkar).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3775
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 4215وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا تَقْطَعُوا اللَّحْمَ بِالسِّكِّينِ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْ صُنْعِ الْأَعَاجِمِ وَانْهَسُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ أَهْنَأُ وَأَمْرَأُ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَالْبَيْهَقِيُ
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 21222al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7357al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7358al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14741al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14742
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHأَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلسعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf), he grew old and his memory became confused (ikhtilāṭ)d. 170 AHأَبُو مَعْشَرٍضعيف ، أسن واختلطنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), authord. 226 AH or 227 AH or 228 AH or 229 AHسَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقة مصنفحدثنا
- 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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