Sunan Abi Dawud 4409
Cutting off the hand of a grave-robber
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عِمْرَانَ عَنِ الْمُشَعَّثِ بْنِ طَرِيفٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ
قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ قُلْتُ لَبَّيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَسَعْدَيْكَ فَقَالَ كَيْفَ أَنْتَ إِذَا أَصَابَ النَّاسَ مَوْتٌ يَكُونُ الْبَيْتُ فِيهِ بِالْوَصِيفِ يَعْنِي الْقَبْرَ قُلْتُ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ أَوْ مَا خَارَ اللَّهُ لِي وَرَسُولُهُ قَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِالصَّبْرِ أَوْ قَالَ تَصْبِرُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Ḥammād b. Zayd
- Abū ʿImrān
- al-Mushaʿʿath b. Ṭarīf
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ṣāmit
- Abū Dhar
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: O AbuDharr: I replied: At your service and at your pleasure, Messenger of Allah! He said: how will you do when death smites people, and a house, meaning a grave, will cost as much as a slave. I said: Allah and His Apostle know best, or he said: What Allah and His Apostle choose for me. He said: Show endurance, or he said: You may show endurance. Abu Dawud said: Hammad b. Abi Sulaiman said: The hand of one who rifles a grave should be cut off because he had entered the deceased's house.
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالَ حَمَّادُ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ يُقْطَعُ النَّبَّاشُ لأَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ بَيْتَهُ
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
يرويه أبو عمران الجوني واختلف عنه فرواه مبارك بن فضالة عن أبي عمران الجوني عن أبي تميمة الهجيمي عن أبي ذر وخالفه شعبة وحماد بن زيد ومحمد بن ثابت العبدي ومرحوم العطار فرووه عن أبي عمران الجوني عن عبد الله بن الصامت عن أبي ذر وهو المحفوظ
machine translationAbū ʿImrān al-Jawnī transmits it, and there is disagreement about him. Mubārak b. Faḍālah narrated it from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from Abū Tamīmah al-Hujaymī, from Abū Dharr. Shuʿbah, Ḥammād b. Zayd, Muḥammad b. Thābit al-ʿAbdī and Marḥūm al-ʿAṭṭār contradicted him, and narrated it from Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, from ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ṣāmit, from Abū Dharr, and this is the preserved (maḥfūẓ) version.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4397
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3609وَعَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ» قُلْتُ: لَبَّيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَسَعْدَيْكَ قَالَ: «كَيْفَ أَنْتَ إِذَا أَصَابَ النَّاسَ مَوْتٌ يَكُونُ الْبَيْتُ فِيهِ بِالْوَص
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 4261Musnad Ahmad 21325Sahih Ibn Hibban 6685al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17332Musnad al-Bazzar 3964Musnad al-Tayalisi 461
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 70 and 80 AH, also said: between 91 and 100 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الصَّامِتِثقةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)الْمُشَعَّثِ بْنِ طَرِيفٍمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 106 AH or 123 AH or 127 AH or 128 AH or 129 AHأَبِي عِمْرَانَثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.نا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة 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
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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