Sunan Abi Dawud 3988

Translation

I came to the Prophet ﷺ. He then narrated the rest of the tradition. A man from the people said: "Messenger of Allah! tell us about Saba'; what is it: land or woman? He replied: It is neither land nor woman; it is a man to whom ten children of the Arabs were born: six of them lived in the Yemen and four lived in Syria. The narrator Uthman said al-Ghatafani instead of al-Ghutayfi. He said: It has been transmitted to us by al-Hasan ibn al-Hakam an-Nakha'i.

Notes

• أَخْبِرْنَا عَنْ سَبَإٍ مَا هُوَ أَرْضٌ أَمِ امْرَأَةٌ فَقَالَ لَيْسَ بِأَرْضٍ وَلاَ امْرَأَةٍ وَلَكِنَّهُ رَجُلٌ وَلَدَ عَشَرَةً مِنَ الْعَرَبِ فَتَيَامَنَ سِتَّةٌ وَتَشَاءَمَ أَرْبَعَةٌ قَالَ عُثْمَانُ الْغَطَفَانِيِّ مَكَانَ الْغُطَيْفِيِّ وَقَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ النَّخَعِيُّ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث غريب حسن

  machine translationThis is a good, gharīb hadith (gharīb ḥasan). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 3984

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 24428al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13027Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33727al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3585

Narrators

1. 1
   Farwah b. Musayk al-Ghuṭayfī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   فَرْوَة بْن مُسَيْك الْغُطَيْفِيصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Sabrah al-Nakhaʿī

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبُو سَبْرَةَ النَّخَعِيُّمقبول
   نا
3. 3
   Al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥakam

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 140-odd AH, or shortly before 150 AH
   الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ النَّخَعِيُّصدوق يخطئ
   حدثني
4. 4
   Abū Usāmah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AH
   أَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.
   نا
5. 5
   Hārūn b. ʿAbdillāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 241 AH, or: 243 AH, or: 249 AH
   وَهَارُونُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة
   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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