Sunan Abi Dawud 4408
The thief who steals during a military expedition - should his hand be cut off
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ عَنْ عَيَّاشِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ الْقِتْبَانِيِّ عَنْ شُيَيْمِ بْنِ بَيْتَانَ وَيَزِيدَ بْنِ صُبْحٍ الأَصْبَحِيِّ عَنْ جُنَادَةَ بْنِ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ قَالَ كُنَّا مَعَ بُسْرِ بْنِ أَرْطَاةَ فِي الْبَحْرِ فَأُتِيَ بِسَارِقٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ مِصْدَرٌ قَدْ سَرَقَ بُخْتِيَّةً فَقَالَ قَدْ
سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ لاَ تُقْطَعُ الأَيْدِي فِي السَّفَرِ وَلَوْلاَ ذَلِكَ لَقَطَعْتُهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ
- Ibn and Hb
- Ḥaywah b. Shurayḥ
- ʿAyyāsh b. ʿAbbās al-Qitbānī
- Shuyaym b. Baytān Wayazīd b. Ṣubḥ al-Aṣbaḥī
- Junādah b. Abū Umayyah
- Kunnā Maʿ Busr b. Arṭāh Fī al-Baḥr Faʾutī Bisāriq Yuqāl Lah Miṣdar Qad Saraq Bukhtiyyah
- Qad
Junadah ibn AbuUmayyah said: We were with Busr ibn Artat on the sea (on an expedition). A thief called Misdar who had stolen a bukhti she-camel was brought. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: Hands are not to be cut off during a warlike expedition. Had it not been so, I would have cut it off.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sound Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4408 | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
بسر قرشي عامري كنيته أبو عبد الرحمن اختلف في صحبته فقيل له صحبة وقيل لا صحبة له وأن مولده قبل وفاة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم بسنين وله أخبار مشهورة وكان يحيى بن معين لا يحسن الثناء عليه وهذا يدل على أنه عنده لا صحبة له
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4396 - al-Tirmidhi
غريب
machine translationGharīb.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4396 - Dāraquṭnī
غمزه
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4396
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1450Sunan an-Nasa'i 4979Musnad Ahmad 17626al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1193al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18291al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7448
Narrators
- among the junior Companionsd. died in the days of Muʿāwiyah, also said: survived until the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān, and that is Khalīfah's view, and Ibn Ḥibbān stated it definitively, also said: died in the year 86 AH, related by al-Masʿūdīبُسْر بْن أَرْطَاة الْعَامِرِيّمن صغار الصحابةعن
- His status as a Companion is disputed (mukhtalaf fī ṣuḥbatihi)d. 67 AH or 80 AH, also said: 75 AH, also said: 86 AHجُنَادَةَ بْنِ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَمختلف في صحبتهعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)وَيَزِيدَ بْنِ صُبْحٍ الْأَصْبَحِيِّمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 133 AHعَيَّاشِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ الْقِتْبَانِيِّثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), ascetic (zāhid).d. al-Muqriʾ said: 158 AH. Ibn Yūnus said: 153 AH. Abū Naṣr al-Kalābādhī said: 159 AH.حَيْوَةُ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍثقة ثبت فقيه زاهد.أخبرني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AHابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابدنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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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