Sunan Abi Dawud 4017
Regarding Nudity
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي ح وَحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى نَحْوَهُ عَنْ بَهْزِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ
قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ عَوْرَاتُنَا مَا نَأْتِي مِنْهَا وَمَا نَذَرُ قَالَ احْفَظْ عَوْرَتَكَ إِلاَّ مِنْ زَوْجَتِكَ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ يَمِينُكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِذَا كَانَ الْقَوْمُ بَعْضُهُمْ فِي بَعْضٍ قَالَ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أَنْ لاَ يَرَيَنَّهَا أَحَدٌ فَلاَ يَرَيَنَّهَا قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِذَا كَانَ أَحَدُنَا خَالِيًا قَالَ اللَّهُ أَحَقُّ أَنْ يُسْتَحْيَا مِنْهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah
- my father [Chain 2] Ibn Bashhār
- Yaḥyá
- Bahz b. Ḥakīm
- his father
- his father
I said: Messenger of Allah, from whom should we conceal our private parts and to whom can we show? He replied: conceal your private parts except from your wife and from whom your right hands possess (slave-girls). I then asked: Messenger of Allah, (what should we do), if the people are assembled together? He replied: If it is within your power that no one looks at it, then no one should look at it. I then asked: Messenger of Allah if one of us is alone, (what should he do)? He replied: Allah is more entitled than people that bashfulness should be shown to him.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Good Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4017 | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Tirmidhi | Goodin سنن أبي داود, p. 4013 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
حديث حسن صالح للحجة مشهور عن بهز
machine translationA good (ḥasan) ḥadīth, fit to be used as evidence (ḥujjah), well known from Bahz.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4013
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 4020Sunan Abi Dawud 4022Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2769Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2794Musnad Ahmad 11248Musnad Ahmad 20034Musnad Ahmad 20036Musnad Ahmad 20040al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10092al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8943al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7408
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. between 161 AH and 170 AHمُعَاوِيَة بْن حَيْدَة الْقُشَيْرِيّصحابيعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 101 AHأَبِيهِصدوقعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. before 160 AHبَهْزِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍصدوقعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHابْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةنا
- 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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