Sunan Abi Dawud 3871
Regarding the disliked remedies
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ
أَنَّ طَبِيبًا سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنْ ضِفْدَعٍ يَجْعَلُهَا فِي دَوَاءٍ فَنَهَاهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنْ قَتْلِهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Kathīr
- Sufyān
- Ibn Abū Dhiʾb
- Saʿīd b. Khālid
- Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿUthmān
When a physician consulted the Prophet ﷺ about putting frogs in medicine, he forbade him to kill them.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 3871 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
هو أقوى ما ورد في الضفدع وسعيد بن خالد هو القارظي ضعفه النسائي ووثقه ابن حبان وقال الدارقطني مدني يحتج به
machine translationThis is the strongest report that has come regarding the frog. Saʿīd b. Khālid is al-Qāriẓī; al-Nasāʾī considered him weak (ḍaʿīf), Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy (thiqah), and al-Dāraquṭnī said: "A Madīnan, who may be used as evidence."
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3866 - Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
هو أقوى ما ورد في النهي
machine translationThis is the strongest report that has come regarding the prohibition.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3866
Same hadith, other wordings
- Bulughul Maram 1345{ أَنَّ طَبِيباً سَأَلَ رَسُولَ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم - - صلى الله عليه وسلم -عَنْ اَلضِّفْدَعِ يَجْعَلُهَا فِي دَوَاءٍ, فَنَهَى عَنْ قَتْلِهَا }
- Misykatul Mashabih 4545وَعَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ: إِنَّ طَبِيبًا سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ ضِفْدَعٍ يَجْعَلُهَا فِي دَوَاءٍ فَنَهَاهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ قَتْلِهَا. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
- Sunan Abu Dawud 5269أَنَّ طَبِيبًا سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنْ ضِفْدَعٍ يَجْعَلُهَا فِي دَوَاءٍ فَنَهَاهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنْ قَتْلِهَا
Other narrations of this report
Sunan ad-Darimi 2041al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5736al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3721al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19439Musnad al-Bazzar 5295
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 73 AHعَبْد الرَّحْمَن بْن عُثْمَان القُرَشِي شَارِب الذَّهَبصحابيعن
- One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبارعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. at the end of the reign of the Banū Umayyahسَعِيدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍصدوقعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir said, from Ibn Abī Fudayk: 158 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said, and others: 159 AHابْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍثقة فقيه فاضلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةأنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفهحدثنا
- 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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Commentaries
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
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