Sunan Abi Dawud 4120

Translation

A sheep was given in alms to a female client of ours, but it died. The Prophet ﷺ passed it and said: Why did you not tan its skin and get some good out of it ? They replied: Messenger of Allah, it died a natural death. He said: It is only the eating of it that is prohibited.

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What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Dāraquṭnī

  وخالفه يونس وعقيل والزبيدي وسليمان بن كثير فرووه عن الزهري عن عبيد الله مرسلا

  machine translationYūnus, ʿUqayl, al-Zubaydī and Sulaymān b. Kathīr contradicted him, and narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh, as a mursal report (mursal). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4115
• Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī

  أصح ما في هذا الباب في جلود الميتة إذا دبغت حديث الزهري عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله عن ابن عباس عن ميمونة والله أعلم

  machine translationThe most authentic report in this chapter concerning the hides of dead animals when they are tanned is the hadith of al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAbd Allāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from Maymūnah. And God knows best. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4115

Same hadith, other wordings

• Sunan Abu Dawud 4121أَلاَ انْتَفَعْتُمْ بِإِهَابِهَا ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ مَعْنَاهُ لَمْ يَذْكُرِ الدِّبَاغَ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4125Musnad Ahmad 2369Sunan ad-Darimi 2032al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 21697al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 21762Sunan al-Daraqutni 99

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة فقيه ثبت
   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
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   نا
5. 5
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
   وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.