Sunan Abi Dawud 4445

Translation

Two men brought a dispute before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. One of them said: Pronounce judgement between us in accordance with Allah’s Book, Messenger of Allah! The other who had more understanding said: Yes, Messenger of Allah! Pronounce judgement between us in accordance with Allah’s Book, and allow me to speak. He (the Prophet) said: Speak, He then said: My son who was a hired servant with this(man) committed fornication with his wife, and when I was told that my son must be stoned to death, I ransomed him with a hundred sheep and a slave girl of mine; but when I asked the learned, they told me that my son should receive a hundred lashes and be banished for a year, and that stoning to death applied only to man’s wife. The apostle of Allah ﷺ replied: By him in whose hand my soul is, I shall certainly pronounce judgment between you in accordance with Allah’s Book. Your sheep and your slave girl must be returned to you, and your son shall receive a hundred lashes and be banished for a year. And he commanded Unias al-Aslami go to that man’s wife, and if she confessed, he should stone her to death. She confessed and he stoned her.

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What scholars said about it

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• Qurṭubī

  عند التعارض حديث مالك أولى لما يعلم من حال مالك وحفظه وضبطه وخصوصا في حديث الزهري فإنه أعرف الناس به

  machine translationWhen there is a conflict, the report of Mālik takes precedence, because of what is known of Mālik's condition, his memory and his precision, especially in the hadith of al-Zuhrī, for he was the most knowledgeable of people regarding it. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4431
• Dāraquṭnī

  يرويه الزهري واختلف عنه فرواه ابن عيينة عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد وشبل وخالفه يحيى بن سعيد الأنصاري وصالح بن كيسان فرووه عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد ولم يذكروا شبلا وكذلك رواه مالك بن أنس عن الزهري واختلف عنه فرواه أبو عاصم عن مالك عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن زيد بن خالد وحده ورواه أصحاب الموطأ عن مالك فقالوا فيه عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد وكذلك قال يونس بن يزيد وابن جريج وزمعة وابن أبي حفصة والليث بن سعد وابن أبي ذئب وابن إسحاق وكذلك قال عبد الأعلى عن معمر عن الزهري وخالفه يزيد بن زريع فرواه عن معمر عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وحده وكذلك رواه عمرو بن شعيب وبكر بن وائل عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن أبي هريرة وحده وهو محفوظ عن أبي هريرة وزيد بن خالد وأما ما قاله ابن عيينة فلم يتابع على قوله عن شبل ورواه الماجشون وصالح بن كيسان وابن أخي الزهري وجماعة عن الزهري عن عبيد الله عن زيد بن خالد وحده مختصرا ورواه ليث بن سعد عن عقيل عن الزهري عن ابن المسيب عن أبي هريرة ولم يتابع عليه ولعله حديث آخر حفظه عقيل عن الزهري والله أعلم

  machine translationAl-Zuhrī narrates it, and there is disagreement about him. Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Hurayrah, Zayd b. Khālid and Shibl. Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī and Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān differed from him, and narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Hurayrah and Zayd b. Khālid, without mentioning Shibl. Likewise Mālik b. Anas narrated it from al-Zuhrī, and there is disagreement about him as well. Abū ʿĀṣim narrated it from Mālik, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Zayd b. Khālid alone. But the transmitters of the Muwaṭṭaʾ narrated it from Mālik and said in it: from Abū Hurayrah and Zayd b. Khālid. Likewise said Yūnus b. Yazīd, Ibn Jurayj, Zamʿah, Ibn Abī Ḥafṣah, al-Layth b. Saʿd, Ibn Abī Dhiʾb and Ibn Isḥāq. Likewise ʿAbd al-Aʿlā said, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī. Yazīd b. Zurayʿ differed from him and narrated it from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Hurayrah alone. Likewise ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb and Bakr b. Wāʾil narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Hurayrah alone. It is preserved (maḥfūẓ) from Abū Hurayrah and Zayd b. Khālid. As for what Ibn ʿUyaynah said, he was not followed in his mention of Shibl. Al-Mājishūn, Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān, the nephew of al-Zuhrī and a group narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Zayd b. Khālid alone, in abbreviated form. Layth b. Saʿd narrated it from ʿUqayl, from al-Zuhrī, from Ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah, and he was not followed in it. Perhaps it is another hadith that ʿUqayl preserved from al-Zuhrī, and God knows best. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4431

Narrators

1. 1
   Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī

   a well-known Companiond. 68 AH or 72 AH or 78 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّصحابي مشهور
   أخبراه
2. 2
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUtbah b. Masʿūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), firmly reliable (thabt)d. al-Bukhārī said: died before ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, 94 AH or 95 AH, and Ibn Numayr said, and others: died 98 AH, Ibn al-Madīnī said: 99 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said: that ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn died 92 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍثقة فقيه ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
   عن
5. 5
   al-Qaʿnabī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ الْقَعْنَبِيُّثقة عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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

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