Sunan Abi Dawud 4344
Command And Prohibition
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَادَةَ الْوَاسِطِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ هَارُونَ أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْرَائِيلُ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جُحَادَةَ عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ الْعَوْفِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ:
«أَفْضَلُ الْجِهَادِ كَلِمَةُ عَدْلٍ عِنْدَ سُلْطَانٍ جَائِرٍ» أَوْ «أَمِيرٍ جَائِرٍ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbādah al-Wāsiṭī
- Yazīd / Ibn Hārūn
- Isrāʾīl
- Muḥammad b. Juḥādah
- ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī
- Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The best jihad is a word of justice spoken before a tyrannical ruler,” or “before an unjust leader.”
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح أبي داود, p. 4344 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
ليس من الأحاديث التي لا مطعن فيها لأنه انفرد به علي بن زيد بن جدعان وقد كان شعبة يتكلم فيه
machine translationIt is not among the hadiths that are free of criticism, because ʿAlī b. Zayd b. Judʿān was alone in narrating it, and Shuʿbah used to speak against him.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4335 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
عطية العوفي لا يحتج بحديثه
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4335 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب من هذا الوجه
machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb) by this route.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4335 - Shuayb al-Arnaut
صحح لغيره
in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4344
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 194"أفضل الجهاد كلمة عدل عند سلطان جائر"
- Misykatul Mashabih 3705وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَفْضَلُ الْجِهَادِ مَنْ قَالَ كَلِمَةَ حَقٍّ عِنْدَ سُلْطَانٍ جَائِرٍ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُد وَابْن مَاجَه وَرَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَالنَّسَائِيُّ عَنْ
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 4209al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7805al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8543al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1635
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, he was a Shīʿī who practised concealment (mudallis)d. 111 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said in "Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb": also said: the year (127 AH), mentioned by Ibn Qāniʿ, and al-Qarrābعَطِيَّةَ الْعَوْفِيِّصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، وكان شيعيا مدلساعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 131 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جُحَادَةَثقةنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AHإِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجةأنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), devout (ʿābid).d. 206 AH.يَزِيدُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ هَارُونَثقة متقن عابد .نا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), virtuous (fāḍil)d. between 251 AH and 260 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَادَةَ الْوَاسِطِيُّصدوق فاضلحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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