Sunan Abi Dawud 4451
The stoning of the two jews
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ يَحْيَى أَبُو الأَصْبَغِ الْحَرَّانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَجُلاً مِنْ مُزَيْنَةَ يُحَدِّثُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
زَنَى رَجُلٌ وَامْرَأَةٌ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ وَقَدْ أُحْصِنَا حِينَ قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ وَقَدْ كَانَ الرَّجْمُ مَكْتُوبًا عَلَيْهِمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ فَتَرَكُوهُ وَأَخَذُوا بِالتَّجْبِيَةِ يُضْرَبُ مِائَةً بِحَبْلٍ مَطْلِيٍّ بِقَارٍ وَيُحْمَلُ عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَجْهُهُ مِمَّا يَلِي دُبُرَ الْحِمَارِ فَاجْتَمَعَ أَحْبَارٌ مِنْ أَحْبَارِهِمْ فَبَعَثُوا قَوْمًا آخَرِينَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالُوا سَلُوهُ عَنْ حَدِّ الزَّانِي وَسَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ فِيهِ قَالَ وَلَمْ يَكُونُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ دِينِهِ فَيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ فَخُيِّرَ فِي ذَلِكَ قَالَ { فَإِنْ جَاءُوكَ فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ أَوْ أَعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ }
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Yaḥyá Abū al-Aṣbagh al-Ḥarrānī
- Muḥammad / Ibn Salamah
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- al-Zuhrī
- a man Min Muzaynah Yuḥaddith Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab
- Abū Hurayrah
A man and a woman of the Jews who were married committed fornication at the time when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to Medina. Stoning was a prescribed punishment for them in accordance with the Torah, but they abandoned it and followed tajbiyyah, meaning, the man was beaten a hundred times with a rope painted with tar and was seated on a donkey with his face towards the tail of the donkey. Their rabbis then assembled and sent some people to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They said to them: Ask him about the prescribed punishment for fornication. The transmitter then mentioned the rest of the tradition. They version adds: They were not the followers of his religion, and he (the prophet) was to pronounce judgment between them. So he was given a choice in this verse:”If they do come to thee, either judge between them, or decline to interfere.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف سنن أبي داود, p. 4451 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sound Due to External Factorsin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4451 | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- الزيلعى
فيه رجل مجهول
machine translationThere is an unknown man (majhūl) in it.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4437 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
فيه رجل من مزينة وهو مجهول
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4437 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
فيه أيضا مجهول
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4437 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
في سنده رجل مبهم
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4437
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 1700bSunan Abi Dawud 3624Sunan Abi Dawud 3626Sunan Ibn Majah 2327Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37696
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- رجل من مزينةسمعت
- 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 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 191 AH or 192 AH or 193 AHمُحَمَّدٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَلَمَةَثقةحدثني
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made errors (wahm)d. 235 AH, Ibn ʿAsākir said: 236 AHعَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ يَحْيَى أَبُو الْأَصْبَغِ الْحَرَّانِيُّصدوق ، ربما وهمحدثنا
- 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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Commentaries
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