Sunan Abi Dawud 4391
Cutting off the hand for snatching and treachery
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حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
لَيْسَ عَلَى الْمُنْتَهِبِ قَطْعٌ وَمَنِ انْتَهَبَ نُهْبَةً مَشْهُورَةً فَلَيْسَ مِنَّا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Naṣr b. ʿAlī
- Muḥammad b. Bakr
- Ibn Jurayj
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: Cutting of hand is not to be inflicted on one who plunders, but he who plunders conspicuously does not belong to us.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Soundin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4391Another source records this grader as “Hasan Sahih” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Abū Daʾūd
هذان الحديثان لم يسمعهما ابن جريج من أبي الزبير وبلغني عن أحمد بن حنبل أنه قال إنما سمعهما ابن جريج من ياسين الزيات
machine translationIbn Jurayj did not hear these two hadiths from Abū al-Zubayr. It has reached me from Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal that he said: Ibn Jurayj only heard them from Yāsīn al-Zayyāt.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4381 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
لم يسمع ابن جريج هذا الحديث من أبي الزبير يقال إنه سمعه من ياسين الزيات عن أبي الزبير فقالا قال زيد بن حباب عن ياسين أنا حدثت به ابن جريج عن أبي الزبير فقلت لهما ما حال ياسين فقالا ليس بقوي
machine translationIbn Jurayj did not hear this hadith from Abū al-Zubayr. It is said that he heard it from Yāsīn al-Zayyāt, from Abū al-Zubayr. Then the two said: Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb said, from Yāsīn: "I narrated it to Ibn Jurayj, from Abū al-Zubayr." I said to the two of them: What is the status of Yāsīn? They said: He is not strong (laysa bi-qawī).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4381 - أبو زرعة الرازي
لم يسمع ابن جريج هذا الحديث من أبي الزبير يقال إنه سمعه من ياسين الزيات عن أبي الزبير فقالا قال زيد بن حباب عن ياسين أنا حدثت به ابن جريج عن أبي الزبير فقلت لهما ما حال ياسين فقالا ليس بقوي
machine translationIbn Jurayj did not hear this hadith from Abū al-Zubayr. It is said that he heard it from Yāsīn al-Zayyāt, from Abū al-Zubayr. Then the two said: Zayd b. al-Ḥubāb said, from Yāsīn: "I narrated it to Ibn Jurayj, from Abū al-Zubayr." I said to the two of them: What is the status of Yāsīn? They said: He is not strong (laysa bi-qawī).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4381 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
لم يسمعه ابن جريج من أبي الزبير إنما سمعه من ياسين الزيات وهو ضعيف
machine translationIbn Jurayj did not hear it from Abū al-Zubayr; he only heard it from Yāsīn al-Zayyāt, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4381
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3596وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَيْسَ عَلَى الْمُنْتَهِبِ قَطْعٌ وَمَنِ انْتَهَبَ نُهْبَةً مَشْهُورَةً فَلَيْسَ مِنَّا». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
- Sunan Abu Dawud 4392قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَيْسَ عَلَى الْخَائِنِ قَطْعٌ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 1306Sahih Ibn Hibban 3146Musnad al-Bazzar 6919Musnad al-Bazzar 6920
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيقال
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبُو الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلسقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AHابْنُ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسلنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), may errd. 204 AH, also said 203 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍصدوق قد يخطئنا
- Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt); he was asked to take the judgeship (qaḍāʾ) but declinedd. 250 AH, also said: 251 AHنَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة ثبت ، طلب للقضاء فامتنعحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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