Sunan Abi Dawud 4354

Translation

I went to the Prophet ﷺ while two men who were Ash’ arIs were with me. One of them was on my right and the other on my left side. Bothe of them asked him for employment. The prophet ﷺ was silent. He asked: What do you say Abu Musa, or ‘Abd Allah b. Qais (Abu Musa’s name)? I replied: By him who has sent you with truth, they did not inform me of what they had in their hearts, and I did not know that they would ask for an employment. He said: I have the scene before my eyes that he had his toothstick below his lip which receded. He (the prophet) said: We will never or will not put in charge of our work anyone who asks for it. But go, ye, Abu Musa, or ‘Abd Allah b. Qais. He then sent him as a Governor of the Yemen, After him he sent Muadh b. Jabal. When Muadh came to him, he said: come down, and he put a cushion for him. He saw that a man was chained with him. He asked: What is this? He replied: He was a Jew and he accepted Islam. He then converted to his religion, an evil religion. He said: I will not sit until he is killed according to the decision of Allah and his Apostle ﷺ. He said: Yes, be seated. He said: I will not sit until he is killed according to the decision of Allah and his Apostle (peace be upon him). He said it three times. He then commanded for it and he was killed. Both of them then discussed the question of prayer and vigilance at night. One of them, probably Muadh, said: So far as I am concerned, I sleep and I keep vigilance: I keep vigilance and I sleep: I hope for the same reward for my sleep as for my vigilance.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  رواه خالد الحذاء عن حميد بن هلال عن أبي بردة عن أبي موسى ومعاذ ورواه أيوب عن حميد بن هلال مرسلا ورواه أبو إسحاق الشيباني عن سعيد بن أبي بردة عن أبيه وفي ذلك تقوية برواية خالد الحذاء

  machine translationKhālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ narrated it from Ḥumayd b. Hilāl, from Abū Burdah, from Abū Mūsā and Muʿādh. Ayyūb narrated it from Ḥumayd b. Hilāl as a mursal report (mursal). Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī narrated it from Saʿīd b. Abī Burdah, from his father. In that is a strengthening of the narration of Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4345

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4415Sahih al-Bukhari 6678Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 19863al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6006al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6011

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
   أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
   قال
2. 2
   Abū Burdah b. Abī Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AH
   أَبُو بُرْدَةَثقة
   نا
3. 3
   Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraq
   حُمَيْدُ بْنُ هِلَالٍثقة عالم
   نا
4. 4
   Qurrah b. Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah), precise (ḍābiṭ)d. 154 AH, or: 155 AH, or 170-odd AH
   قُرَّةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍثقة ضابط
   نا
5. 5
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   نا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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