Sunan Abi Dawud 4214

Translation

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wanted to write to some persian rulers. He was told that they would not read a letter without a seal in the form of a silver ring on which he engraved "Muhammad the Messenger of Allah."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 5865Sahih Muslim 2091bMusnad Ahmad 13327Sahih Ibn Hibban 6392al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5301Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 25636al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5837al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8816al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9478Musnad Abi Ya'la 3272

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Saʿīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
   سَعِيدٍثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
   عن
4. 4
   ʿĪsā b. Yūnus

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AH
   عِيسَىثقة مأمون
   نا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Muṭarrif al-Ruʾāsī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 232 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحِيمِ بْنُ مُطَرِّفٍ الرُّؤَاسِيُّثقة
   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.