Sunan Abi Dawud 3815

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said: What the sea throws up and is left by the tide you may eat, but what dies in the sea and floats you must not eat. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Sufyan al-Thawri, Ayyub and Hammad from Abu al-Zubair as the statement of Jabor himself (and not from the Prophet). It has been also transmitted direct from the Prophet ﷺ through a weak chain by Abu Dhi'b, from Abu al-Zubair on the authority if Jabir from the Prophet ﷺ.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ رَوَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ سُفْيَانُ الثَّوْرِيُّ وَأَيُّوبُ وَحَمَّادٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ أَوْقَفُوهُ عَلَى جَابِرٍ وَقَدْ أُسْنِدَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ أَيْضًا مِنْ وَجْهٍ ضَعِيفٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وتمسكوا بحديث أبي الزبير عن جابر ما ألقاه البحر أو جزر عنه فكلوه وما مات فيه فطفا فلا تأكلوه أخرجه أبو داود مرفوعا من رواية يحيى بن سليم الطائفي عن أبي الزبير عن جابر ثم قال رواه الثوري وأيوب وغيرهما عن أبي الزبير هذا الحديث موقوفا وقد أسند من وجه ضعيف عن ابن أبي ذئب عن أبي الزبير عن جابر مرفوعا وقال الترمذي سألت البخاري عنه فقال ليس بمحفوظ ويروى عن جابر خلافه اه ويحيى بن سليم صدوق وصفوه بسوء الحفظ وقال النسائي ليس بالقوي وقال يعقوب بن سفيان إذا حدث من كتابه فحديثه حسن وإذا حدث حفظا يعرف وينكر وقال أبو حازم لم يكن بالحافظ وقال ابن حبان في الثقات كان يخطئ وقد توبع على رفعه وأخرجه الدارقطني من رواية أبي أحمد الزبيري عن الثوري مرفوعا لكن قال خالفه وكيع وغيره فوقفوه عن الثوري وهو الصواب وروي عن ابن أبي ذئب وإسماعيل بن أمية مرفوعا ولا يصح والصحيح موقوف وإذا لم يصح إلا موقوفا فقد عارضه قول أبي بكر وغيره

  machine translationThey relied on the hadith of Abū al-Zubayr from Jābir: "What the sea casts up or leaves behind by receding, eat it; and what dies in it and floats, do not eat it." Abū Dāwūd recorded it as marfūʿ (traced to the Prophet ﷺ) from the narration of Yaḥyā b. Sulaym al-Ṭāʾifī, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir. Then he said: Al-Thawrī, Ayyūb and others narrated this hadith from Abū al-Zubayr as mawqūf (a statement of the Companion). It was also traced back through a weak route from Ibn Abī Dhiʾb, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir as marfūʿ. Al-Tirmidhī said: I asked al-Bukhārī about it and he said: It is not preserved (maḥfūẓ), and the opposite of it is narrated from Jābir. End of quote. Yaḥyā b. Sulaym is truthful (ṣadūq), though they described him as having poor memory. Al-Nasāʾī said: He is not strong. Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān said: When he narrates from his book, his hadith is good (ḥasan); when he narrates from memory, he is known for some and rejected for others. Abū Ḥātim said: He was not a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ). Ibn Ḥibbān said in al-Thiqāt: He used to make mistakes. He was followed in raising it to the Prophet ﷺ. Al-Dāraquṭnī recorded it from the narration of Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, from al-Thawrī, as marfūʿ, but said: Wakīʿ and others differed from him and made it mawqūf from al-Thawrī, and that is correct. It is also narrated from Ibn Abī Dhiʾb and Ismāʿīl b. Umayyah as marfūʿ, but that is not sound; the sound version is mawqūf. And if it is sound only as mawqūf, then it is contradicted by the statement of Abū Bakr and others. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3810
• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  ضعفه فقال ويحيى بن سليم كثير الوهم سيئ الحفظ وقد رواه غيره موقوفا

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3810
• Mubarakpūri

  ضعيف باتفاق أئمة الحديث لا يجوز الاحتجاج به

  machine translationWeak (ḍaʿīf) by agreement of the leading hadith scholars; it is not permissible to use it as evidence. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3810
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  الصحيح أنه موقوف

  machine translationThe correct view is that it is a statement of a Companion (mawqūf). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3810

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 4133وَعَن أبي الزُّبيرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: «مَا ألقاهُ البحرُ وجزر عَنْهُ الْمَاءُ فَكُلُوهُ وَمَا مَاتَ فِيهِ وَطَفَا فَلَا تَأْكُلُوهُ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَقَالَ مُحْي

Other narrations of this report

Muwatta' Malik 25-9al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19054al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19056al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19057

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AH
   أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Ismāʿīl b. Umayyah al-Umawī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 139 AH, or 144 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَثقة ثبت
   نا
4. 4
   Yaḥyā b. Sulaym

   truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH, or 195 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمٍ الطَّائِفِيُّصدوق ، سيئ الحفظ
   نا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. ʿAbdah

   trustworthy (thiqah), accused of nasb (hostility toward ʿAlī and the Ahl al-Bayt)d. 245 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدَةَثقة ، رمي بالنصب
   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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Mishkat al-Masabih 4133