Sunan Abi Dawud 4473

Translation

A slave-girl belonging to the house of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ committed fornication. He (the Prophet) said: Rush up, Ali, and inflict the prescribed punishment on her. I then hurried up, and saw that blood was flowing from her, and did not stop. So I came to him and he said: Have you finished inflicting (punishment on her)? I said: I went to her while her blood was flowing. He said: Leave her alone till her bleeding stops; then inflict the prescribed punishment on her. And inflict the prescribed punishment on those whom your right hands possess (i.e. slaves). Abu Dawud said: A similar tradition has been transmitted by Abu al-Ahwas from 'Abd al-A'la, and also by Shu'bah from 'Abd al-A'la. This version has: He said: Do not give her beating until she gives birth to a child. But the former (version) is sounder.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَكَذَلِكَ رَوَاهُ أَبُو الأَحْوَصِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى وَرَوَاهُ شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى فَقَالَ فِيهِ لاَ تَضْرِبْهَا حَتَّى تَضَعَ وَالأَوَّلُ أَصَحُّ

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Daʾūd

  رواه شعبة عن عبد الأعلى وقال لا تضربها حتى تضع والأول أصحيعنى هذا الحديث

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4459
• Qurṭubī

  هذه الرواية أحسن من رواية مسلم وأليق

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4459
• Qurṭubī

  هو أصح من حديث سهل وأعلى

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4459
• ابن الملقن

  في إسناده عبد الأعلى بن عامر الثعلبي قال فيه أحمد وأبو زرعة ضعيف الحديث وقال يحيى تعرف وتنكر وقال مرة ثقة وقال النسائي في سننه الكبرى ليس بذاك القوي وقال ابن عدي حدث بأشياء لا يتابع عليها

  machine translationIn its chain of transmission is ʿAbd al-Aʿlā b. ʿĀmir al-Thaʿlabī. Aḥmad and Abū Zurʿah said of him: weak in hadith (ḍaʿīf al-ḥadīth). Yaḥyā said: he is known for some things and rejected for others (tuʿraf wa-tunkar), and on another occasion he said: trustworthy (thiqah). Al-Nasāʾī said in his al-Sunan al-Kubrā: he is not that strong. Ibn ʿAdī said: he narrated things in which he is not corroborated. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4459

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 3564وَعَنْ عَلِيٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَقِيمُوا عَلَى أَرِقَّائِكُمُ الْحَدَّ مَنْ أُحْصِنَ مِنْهُمْ وَمَنْ لَمْ يُحْصَنْ فَإِنَّ أَمَةً لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ زَنَتْ فَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ
• Shahih Muslim 1705aخَطَبَ عَلِيٌّ فَقَالَ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَقِيمُوا عَلَى أَرِقَّائِكُمُ الْحَدَّ مَنْ أَحْصَنَ مِنْهُمْ وَمَنْ لَمْ يُحْصِنْ فَإِنَّ أَمَةً لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ زَنَتْ فَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ أَجْلِدَهَا فَإِذَا هِيَ حَدِيثُ عَهْدٍ بِنِفَاسٍ فَ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4471Sunan al-Daraqutni 3334Sunan al-Daraqutni 3336al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7227

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Jamīlah

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 81 and 90 AH
   أَبِي جَمِيلَةَمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Aʿlā

   truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. between 121 and 140 AH
   عَبْدُ الْأَعْلَىصدوق يهم
   نا
4. 4
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   أنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Kathīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفه
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Also in

Mishkat al-Masabih 3564