Sunan Abi Dawud 3968
The Virtue Of Manumitting Slaves When The Master Is Healthy
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَبِي حَبِيبَةَ الطَّائِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
مَثَلُ الَّذِي يُعْتِقُ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ كَمَثَلِ الَّذِي يُهْدِي إِذَا شَبِعَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Kathīr
- Sufyān
- Abū Isḥāq
- Abū Ḥabībah al-Ṭāʾī
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: the similitude of a man who emancipates a slave at the time of his death is like that of a man who gives a present after satisfying his appetite.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Good Chainin سنن أبي داود, p. 3964 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Weak Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 3968Another source records this grader as “Hasan Sahih” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Tirmidhi | Good-Soundin سنن أبي داود, p. 3964 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3964 - al-Dhahabi
وأقره الذهبي
machine translationAnd al-Dhahabī concurred with him.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3964 - M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
صححه ابن حبان
machine translationIbn Ḥibbān authenticated it (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 3964
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2123Sunan an-Nasa'i 3614Musnad Ahmad 21719Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 16815al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21370al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2846
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِي حَبِيبَةَ الطَّائِيِّمقبولعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- 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
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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