Sunan Abi Dawud 4410
The thief who steals repeatedly
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ الْهِلاَلِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا جَدِّي عَنْ مُصْعَبِ بْنِ ثَابِتِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ
جِيءَ بِسَارِقٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ اقْتُلُوهُ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا سَرَقَ فَقَالَ اقْطَعُوهُ قَالَ فَقُطِعَ ثُمَّ جِيءَ بِهِ الثَّانِيَةَ فَقَالَ اقْتُلُوهُ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا سَرَقَ فَقَالَ اقْطَعُوهُ قَالَ فَقُطِعَ ثُمَّ جِيءَ بِهِ الثَّالِثَةَ فَقَالَ اقْتُلُوهُ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا سَرَقَ قَالَ اقْطَعُوهُ ثُمَّ أُتِيَ بِهِ الرَّابِعَةَ فَقَالَ اقْتُلُوهُ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا سَرَقَ قَالَ اقْطَعُوهُ فَأُتِيَ بِهِ الْخَامِسَةَ فَقَالَ اقْتُلُوهُ قَالَ جَابِرٌ فَانْطَلَقْنَا بِهِ فَقَتَلْنَاهُ ثُمَّ اجْتَرَرْنَاهُ فَأَلْقَيْنَاهُ فِي بِئْرٍ وَرَمَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ الْحِجَارَةَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAqīl al-Hilālī
- my father
- Muṣʿab b. Thābit b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr
- Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
A thief was brought to the Prophet ﷺ. He said: Kill him. The people said: He has committed theft, Messenger of Allah! Then he said: Cut off his hand. So his (right) hand was cut off. He was brought a second time and he said: Kill him. The people said: He has committed theft, Messenger of Allah! Then he said: Cut off his foot. So his (left) foot was cut off. He was brought a third time and he said: Kill him. The people said: He has committed theft, Messenger of Allah! So he said: Cut off his hand. (So his (left) hand was cut off.) He was brought a fourth time and he said: Kill him. The people said: He has committed theft, Messenger of Allah! So he said: Cut off his foot. So his (right) foot was cut off. He was brought a fifth time and he said: Kill him. So we took him away and killed him. We then dragged him and cast him into a well and threw stones over him.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Weak Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4410 | hadithunlocked |
| 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.
- Dāraquṭnī
وفي إسناده مصعب بن ثابت وقد ضعفوه
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4398 - Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī
هذا حديث منكر ومصعب بن ثابت قد ضعفوه قال النسائي ليس بالقوي ولا يصح هذا الحديث ولا أعلم في هذا الباب حديثا صحيحا
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4398 - Ibn Ṣalāḥ
هذه الرواية شاذة وإن أخرجها أبو داود والنسائي
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4398 - Dāraquṭnī
حديث القتل منكر لا أصل له
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4398
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- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
مصعب بن ثابت هذا هو أبو عبد الله مصعب بن ثابت بن عبد الله بن الزبير بن العوام القرشي العدوي المدني وقد ضعفه غير واحد من الأئمة
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4398 - Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī
هذا حديث منكر ومصعب بن ثابت راويه ليس بالقوي
machine translationThis is a rejected (munkar) hadith, and Muṣʿab b. Thābit, its narrator, is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4398 - Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī
مصعب بن ثابت ليس بالقوي وهذا الحديث ليس بصحيح قال ولا أعلم في هذا الباب حديثا صحيحا عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
machine translationMuṣʿab b. Thābit is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), and this hadith is not authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). He said: I do not know of any authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith on this topic from the Prophet ﷺ.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4398 - Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī
مصعب بن ثابت ليس بالقوي وإن كان يحيى القطان قد روى عنه وهذا الحديث ليس بصحيح ولا أعلم في هذا الباب حديثا صحيحا عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
machine translationMuṣʿab b. Thābit is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī), even though Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān narrated from him. This hadith is not sound (ṣaḥīḥ), and I do not know of any sound hadith on this subject from the Prophet ﷺ.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4398
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3603وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: جِيءَ بِسَارِقٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «اقْطَعُوهُ» فَقُطِعَ ثُمَّ جِيءَ بِهِ الثَّانِيَةَ فَقَالَ: «اقْطَعُوهُ» فَقُطِعَ ثُمَّ جِيءَ بِهِ الثَّالِثَةَ فَقَالَ: «اقْطَعُوهُ» فَقُطِعَ
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 3407al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1709al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7447al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8153
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 الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضلعن
- lenient in hadith (layyin al-ḥadīth), and he was a worshipperd. 157 AHمُصْعَبِ بْنِ ثَابِتِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِلين الحديث ، وكان عابداعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 207 AHجَدِّيصدوقنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 241 and 250 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ الْهِلَالِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- 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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