Sunan Abi Dawud 4417

Translation

The tradition mentioned above (No. 4401) has also been transmitted by Ubadah ibn as-Samit through a different chain of narrators. This version has: The people said to Sa'd ibn Ubadah: AbuThabit, the prescribed punishments have been revealed: if you find a man with your wife, what will you do? He said: I shall strike them with a sword so much that they become silent (i.e. die). Should I go and gather four witnesses? Until that (time) the need would be fulfilled. So they went away and gathered with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: Messenger of Allah! did you not see AbuThabit. He said so-and-so. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: The sword is a sufficient witness. He then said: No, no, a furious and a jealous man may follow this course. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Waki' from al-Fadl b. Dilham from al-Hasan, from Qabisah b. Huraith, from Salamah b. al-Muhabbaq, from the Prophet ﷺ. And this is the chain of the tradition narrated by Ibn al-Muhabbaq to the effect that a man had sexual intercourse with a slave girl of his wife. Abu Dawud said: Al-Fadl b. Dilham was not the memoriser of traditions. He was a butcher in Wasit.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ رَوَى وَكِيعٌ أَوَّلَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ دَلْهَمٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْمُحَبَّقِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَإِنَّمَا هَذَا إِسْنَادُ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ الْمُحَبَّقِ أَنَّ رَجُلاً وَقَعَ عَلَى جَارِيَةِ امْرَأَتِهِ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دَلْهَمٍ لَيْسَ بِالْحَافِظِ كَانَ قَصَّابًا بِوَاسِطَ

  machine translationAbū Dāwūd said: Wakīʿ narrated the beginning of this hadith from al-Faḍl b. Dalham, from al-Ḥasan, from Qabīṣah b. Ḥurayth, from Salamah b. al-Muḥabbiq, from the Prophet ﷺ. But this is only the chain of the hadith of Ibn al-Muḥabbiq, that a man had intercourse with his wife's slave girl. Abū Dāwūd said: al-Faḍl b. Dalham is not a reliable memorizer (ḥāfiẓ); he was a butcher in Wāsiṭ. Report a problem

• حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ الطَّائِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ رَوْحِ بْنِ خُلَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ، - يَعْنِي الْوَهْبِيَّ - حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دَلْهَمٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْمُحَبَّقِ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فَقَالَ نَاسٌ لِسَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ يَا أَبَا ثَابِتٍ قَدْ نَزَلَتِ الْحُدُودُ لَوْ أَنَّكَ وَجَدْتَ مَعَ امْرَأَتِكَ رَجُلاً كَيْفَ كُنْتَ صَانِعًا قَالَ كُنْتُ ضَارِبَهُمَا بِالسَّيْفِ حَتَّى يَسْكُتَا أَفَأَنَا أَذْهَبُ فَأَجْمَعُ أَرْبَعَةَ شُهَدَاءَ فَإِلَى ذَلِكَ قَدْ قَضَى الْحَاجَةَ. فَانْطَلَقُوا فَاجْتَمَعُوا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى أَبِي ثَابِتٍ قَالَ كَذَا وَكَذَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " كَفَى بِالسَّيْفِ شَاهِدًا ". ثُمَّ قَالَ " لاَ لاَ أَخَافُ أَنْ يَتَتَايَعَ فِيهَا السَّكْرَانُ وَالْغَيْرَانُ ". قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ رَوَى وَكِيعٌ أَوَّلَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ دَلْهَمٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ قَبِيصَةَ بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْمُحَبَّقِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم. وَإِنَّمَا هَذَا إِسْنَادُ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ الْمُحَبَّقِ أَنَّ رَجُلاً وَقَعَ عَلَى جَارِيَةِ امْرَأَتِهِ. قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دَلْهَمٍ لَيْسَ بِالْحَافِظِ كَانَ قَصَّابًا بِوَاسِطَ

  machine translationMuḥammad b. ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī narrated to us, al-Rabīʿ b. Rawḥ b. Khulayd narrated to us, Muḥammad b. Khālid, meaning al-Wahbī, narrated to us, al-Faḍl b. Dalham narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan, from Salamah b. al-Muḥabbiq, from ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit, from the Prophet ﷺ with this hadith. Some people said to Saʿd b. ʿUbādah: "O Abū Thābit, the prescribed punishments have been revealed. If you found a man with your wife, what would you do?" He said: "I would strike them both with the sword until they fell silent. Should I go and gather four witnesses? By then he would have fulfilled his need." So they went and gathered with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: "O Messenger of Allah, have you not seen Abū Thābit, who said such and such?" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The sword is sufficient as a witness." Then he said: "No, no. I fear that the drunk and the jealous would follow one another in this." Abū Dāwūd said: Wakīʿ narrated the beginning of this hadith from al-Faḍl b. Dalham, from al-Ḥasan, from Qabīṣah b. Ḥurayth, from Salamah b. al-Muḥabbiq, from the Prophet ﷺ. But this is only the chain of the hadith of Ibn al-Muḥabbiq, that a man had intercourse with his wife's slave girl. Abū Dāwūd said: al-Faḍl b. Dalham is not a reliable memorizer (ḥāfiẓ); he was a butcher in Wāsiṭ. Report a problem

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  فيه الفضل بن دلهم وهو ثقة وأنكر عليه هذا الحديث من هذه الطريق فقط وبقية رجاله ثقات

  machine translationIn it is al-Faḍl b. Dalham, who is trustworthy (thiqah), but this hadith was objected to from him through this route only, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4405

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1690aSahih Muslim 1690bSahih Muslim 1690cSunan Abi Dawud 4415Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1434

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 32 AH, or: 34 AH, or: 45 AH
   عُبَادَة بْن الصَّامِتصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Salamah b. al-Muḥabbiq al-Hudhalī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْمُحَبِّقِصحابي
   عن
3. 3
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Al-Faḍl b. Dalham

   Soft (layyin), accused of Muʿtazilismd. between 141 and 150 AH
   الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دَلْهَمٍلين ورمي بالاعتزال
   نا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Khālid al-Wahbī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. before 190 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ يَعْنِي الْوَهْبِيَّصدوق
   نا
6. 6
   Al-Rabīʿ b. Rawḥ b. Khulayd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 211 and 220 AH
   الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ رَوْحِ بْنِ خُلَيْدٍثقة
   نا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. ʿAwf

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 272 AH, or 273 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ الطَّائِيُّثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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