Sunan Abi Dawud 3814
Regarding eating locusts
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حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّاءُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عُمَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَوَّامِ الْجَزَّارِ عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ فَقَالَ مِثْلَهُ فَقَالَ
أَكْثَرُ جُنْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ اسْمُهُ فَائِدٌ يَعْنِي أَبَا الْعَوَّامِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Naṣr b. ʿAlī and ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh
- Zakariyyāʾ b. Yaḥyá b. ʿUmārah
- Abū al-ʿAwwām al-Jazzār
- Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī
- Salmān
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ Suʾil
Salman said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about locusts. He replied in a similar way(as mentioned above) saying: The most numerous of Allah’s host. The narrator ‘Ali said: His name is Fa’id, that is the name of al-Awwam. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Hammad b. Salamah, from Abu al-Awwam from Abu uthman, from the Prophet ﷺ. He did not mention salman (i.e., the companions).
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ رَوَاهُ حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَوَّامِ عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ لَمْ يَذْكُرْ سَلْمَانَ
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
هذا خطأ الصحيح مرسل ليس فيه سلمان
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3809 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
الصواب مرسل
machine translationThe correct view is that it is mursal.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3809 - Mubarakpūri
الصواب مرسل
machine translationThe correct view is that it is mursal.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3809 - Shuayb al-Arnaut
[فيه] أبو العوام الجزار واسمه فائد بن كيسان وإن كان حسن الحديث، وتابعه محمد بن الزبرقان وهو مثله في الدرجة، خالفهما من هم أوثق منهما
in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3814
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 3813Sunan Ibn Majah 3219al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20250al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 9285al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19063al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19064
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 34 AH or before it, or 35 AH or 36 AH or 37 AHسَلْمَان الْفَارِسِيّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 75 AH, or 81 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, or shortly after it, also said: after the year 95 AHأَبِي عُثْمَانَ النَّهْدِيِّثقة ثبت عابدعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِي الْعَوَّامِ الْجَزَّارِمقبولعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 187 AH, or: 189 AHزَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عُمَارَةَصدوق يخطئنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imāmd. 234 AH, or: 235 AH, also said: 233 AHوَعَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت إمامحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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