Sunan Abi Dawud 4457

Translation

I met my uncle who was carrying a standard. I asked him: Where are you going? He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has sent me to a man who has married his father's wife. He has ordered me to cut off his head and take his property.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  سئل عن حديث البراء بن عازب عن أبي بردة أن رجلا تزوج بامرأة أبيه فأمر رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أن يضرب عنقه فقال رواه عدي بن ثابت واختلف عنه فرواه أشعث بن سوار واختلف عنه أيضا فقال معمر عن الأشعث عن عدي بن ثابت عن يزيد بن البراء بن عازب عن أبيه قال لقيني عمي ومعه راية فقلت أين تريد فقال بعثني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الحديث وقال حفص بن غياث عن أشعث عن عدي بن ثابت عن البراء قال مر بي خالي أبو بردة بن نيار ومعه لواء فقلت أين تريد فقال بعثني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وقال الفضل بن العلاء عن أشعث عن عدي عن يزيد بن البراء عن أبيه حدثني عمي قال بعثني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وقال هشيم عن أشعث عن عدي بن ثابت عن البراء بن عازب قال حدثني عمي الحارث بن عمرو ومعه لواء عقده قال بعثني النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم إلى رجل الحديث وقال خالد الواسطي عن أشعث عن عدي بن ثابت عن يزيد بن البراء عن خاله أن رجلا تزوج بامرأة أبيه فأرسل إليه النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقتله ورواه السدي عن عدي بن ثابت عن البراء قال لقيت خالي ومعه الراية فقلت أين تريد فقال بعثني النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم الحديث قاله أبو نعيم عن الحسن بن صالح عن السدي ورواه يحيى بن آدم عن الثوري والحسن بن صالح عن السدي كذلك أيضا وقال زيد بن أبي أنيسة عن عدي بن ثابت عن يزيد بن البراء عن أبيه قال لقيت عمي وقد عقد راية فقال بعثني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الحديث فقال حجاج بن أرطاة عن عدي بن ثابت قال سمعت البراء بن عازب يقول مر بي عمي ومعه الرمح فقلت أين تريد فقال الحديث وقال ابن إسحاق عن عدي بن ثابت عن عبد الله بن يزيد عن البراء

  machine translationHe was asked about the hadith of al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib, from Abū Burdah, that a man married his father's wife, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered that his neck be struck. He said: ʿAdī b. Thābit narrated it, and there is disagreement about him. Ashʿath b. Sawwār narrated it, and there is also disagreement about him. Maʿmar said, from al-Ashʿath, from ʿAdī b. Thābit, from Yazīd b. al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib, from his father: My uncle met me, carrying a banner, and I said: Where are you headed? He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me... the hadith. Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth said, from Ashʿath, from ʿAdī b. Thābit, from al-Barāʾ: My maternal uncle Abū Burdah b. Niyār passed by me carrying a banner, and I said: Where are you headed? He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me. Al-Faḍl b. al-ʿAlāʾ said, from Ashʿath, from ʿAdī, from Yazīd b. al-Barāʾ, from his father: My uncle narrated to me, saying: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me. Hushaym said, from Ashʿath, from ʿAdī b. Thābit, from al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib: My uncle al-Ḥārith b. ʿAmr narrated to me, with a banner he had tied, saying: The Prophet ﷺ sent me to a man... the hadith. Khālid al-Wāsiṭī said, from Ashʿath, from ʿAdī b. Thābit, from Yazīd b. al-Barāʾ, from his maternal uncle: that a man married his father's wife, so the Prophet ﷺ sent for him and killed him. Al-Suddī narrated it from ʿAdī b. Thābit, from al-Barāʾ, who said: I met my maternal uncle carrying the banner, and I said: Where are you headed? He said: The Prophet ﷺ sent me... the hadith. Abū Nuʿaym said this from al-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ, from al-Suddī. Yaḥyā b. Ādam also narrated it likewise from al-Thawrī and al-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ, from al-Suddī. Zayd b. Abī Unaysah said, from ʿAdī b. Thābit, from Yazīd b. al-Barāʾ, from his father: I met my uncle, who had tied a banner, and he said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent me... the hadith. Ḥajjāj b. Arṭāh said, from ʿAdī b. Thābit: I heard al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib say: My uncle passed by me with a spear, and I said: Where are you headed? He said... the hadith. Ibn Isḥāq said, from ʿAdī b. Thābit, from ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd, from al-Barāʾ. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4443
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  في سنده اختلاف كثير

  machine translationThere is much disagreement in its chain of transmission. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4443
• al-Tirmidhi

  حسن غريب

  machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4443

Other narrations of this report

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Narrators

1. 1
   Aḥad al-ṣaḥābah

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابي
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   أَبِيهِصحابي
   عن
3. 3
   Yazīd b. al-Barāʾ

   truthful (ṣadūq).
   يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْبَرَاءِصدوق .
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAdī b. Thābit al-Ẓafarī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Shīʿismd. 115 AH, or 116 AH
   عَدِيِّ بْنِ ثَابِتٍثقة رمي بالتشيع
   عن
5. 5
   Zayd b. Abī Unaysah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 119 AH or 124 AH or 125 AH or 126 AH
   زَيْدِ بْنِ أَبِي أُنَيْسَةَثقة له أفراد
   عن
6. 6
   ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAmr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes made errors (wahm)d. 180 AH or 181 AH
   عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَمْرٍوثقة فقيه ، ربما وهم
   نا
7. 7
   ʿAmr b. Qusṭ al-Raqqī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 233 AH
   عَمْرُو بْنُ قُسَيْطٍ الرَّقِّيُّصدوق
   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

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