Sunan Abi Dawud 3883

Translation

Zaynab, the wife of Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, told that Abdullah said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying: spells, charms and love-potions are polytheism. I asked: Why do you say this? I swear by Allah, when my eye was discharging I used to go to so-and-so, the Jew, who applied a spell to me. When he applied the spell to me, it calmed down. Abdullah said: That was just the work of the Devil who was picking it with his hand, and when he uttered the spell on it, he desisted. All you need to do is to say as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say: Remove the harm, O Lord of men, and heal. Thou art the Healer. There is no remedy but Thine which leaves no disease behind.

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What scholars said about it

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• ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī

  الراوي عن زينب مجهول

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3878
• Shuayb al-Arnaut

  المرفوع منه صحيح لغيره

  in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3883

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 4552وَعَنْ زَيْنَبَ امْرَأَةِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ رَأَى فِي عُنُقِي خَيْطًا فَقَالَ: مَا هَذَا؟ فَقُلْتُ: خَيْطٌ رُقِيَ لِي فِيهِ قَالَتْ: فَأَخَذَهُ فَقَطَعَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَنْتُمْ آلَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ لَأَغْنِيَا

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 3615al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 8890Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 23923Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20419Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 20420al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19662

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   Zaynab bt. Muʿāwiyah Rāʾiṭah

   Female Companion (ṣaḥābiyyah)
   زَيْنَبَ امْرَأَةِ عَبْدِ اللهِصحابية
   عن
3. 3
   Ibn brother of Zaynab a woman ʿAbdullāh

   apparently a Companion, but I have not seen him named
   ابْنِ أَخِي زَيْنَبَ امْرَأَةِ عَبْدِ اللهِكأنه صحابي ، ولم أره مسمى
   عن
4. 4
   Yaḥyá b. al-Jazzār al-ʿUranī

   truthful (ṣadūq), accused of extremism in Shīʿismd. between 81 and 90 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ الْجَزَّارِصدوق ، رمي بالغلو في التشيع
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAmr b. Murrah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), devout; he did not practice concealment (tadlīs), and he was accused of Irjāʾd. 118 AH, also said: before it
   عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَثقة عابد كان لا يدلس ورمي بالإرجاء
   عن
6. 6
   al-Aʿmash

   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 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   نا
7. 7
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   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 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   نا
8. 8
   Abū Kurayb

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
9. 9
   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 4552