Sunan Abi Dawud 3922

Translation

"An omen is in a dwelling, a woman or a horse." Abu Dawud said: This tradition was read out to al-Harith b. Miskin and I was witness. It was said to him that Ibn Qasim told him that Malik was asked about evil omen in a horse and in a house. He replied: There are many houses in which people lived and perished and again others lived therein and they also perished. This is its explanation so far as we know. Allah knows best. Abu Dawud said: 'Umar (ra) said: A mat in a house better than a woman who does not give birth to a child.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ قُرِئَ عَلَى الْحَارِثِ بْنِ مِسْكِينٍ وَأَنَا شَاهِدٌ أَخْبَرَكَ ابْنُ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ سُئِلَ مَالِكٌ عَنِ الشُّؤْمِ فِي الْفَرَسِ وَالدَّارِ قَالَ كَمْ مِنْ دَارٍ سَكَنَهَا نَاسٌ فَهَلَكُوا ثُمَّ سَكَنَهَا آخَرُونَ فَهَلَكُوا فَهَذَا تَفْسِيرُهُ فِيمَا نَرَى وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالَ عُمَرُ ؓ حَصِيرٌ فِي الْبَيْتِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ امْرَأَةٍ لاَ تَلِدُ

  machine translationAbū Dāwūd said: It was recited to al-Ḥārith b. Miskīn while I was present: Ibn al-Qāsim informed you, he said: Mālik was asked about ill omen (shu'm) in the horse and the house. He said: How many a house people lived in and perished, then others lived in it and perished. This is its explanation, as we see it, and God knows best. Abū Dāwūd said: ʿUmar ؓ said: A mat in the house is better than a woman who does not bear children. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Albani

  شاذ والمحفوظ إن كان الشؤم

  machine translationIrregular (shādhdh); the preserved (maḥfūẓ) wording is "if there is ill omen". Report a problem

  in ضعيف أبي داود, p. 3922

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3568Sunan an-Nasa'i 3570Musnad Ahmad 13949al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16623al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 4397

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   He was reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid) and virtuous (fāḍil); he resembled his father in conduct (hady) and demeanor (samt)d. 105 AH or 106 AH or 107 AH or 108 AH, and the correct one is the first
   وَسَالِمٍ ابْنَيْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَكان ثبتا عابدا فاضلا ، كان يشبه بأبيه في الهدي والسمت
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   نا
5. 5
   al-Qaʿnabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH
   الْقَعْنَبِيُّثقة عابد
   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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