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Sunan Abi Dawud 4494

A Life For A Life

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُوسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

كَانَ قُرَيْظَةُ وَالنَّضِيرُ وَكَانَ النَّضِيرُ أَشْرَفَ مِنْ قُرَيْظَةَ فَكَانَ إِذَا قَتَلَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْظَةَ رَجُلاً مِنَ النَّضِيرِ قُتِلَ بِهِ وَإِذَا قَتَلَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النَّضِيرِ رَجُلاً مِنْ قُرَيْظَةَ فُودِيَ بِمِائَةِ وَسْقٍ مِنْ تَمْرٍ فَلَمَّا بُعِثَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ قَتَلَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النَّضِيرِ رَجُلاً مِنْ قُرَيْظَةَ فَقَالُوا ادْفَعُوهُ إِلَيْنَا نَقْتُلْهُ فَقَالُوا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ فَأَتَوْهُ فَنَزَلَتْ { وَإِنْ حَكَمْتَ فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِالْقِسْطِ } وَالْقِسْطُ النَّفْسُ بِالنَّفْسِ ثُمَّ نَزَلَتْ { أَفَحُكْمَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يَبْغُونَ }

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
  2. ʿUbaydullāh / Ibn Mūsá
  3. ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ
  4. Simāk b. Ḥarb
  5. ʿIkrimah
  6. Ibn ʿAbbās

Qurayzah and Nadir (were two Jewish tribes). An-Nadir were nobler than Qurayzah. When a man of Qurayzah killed a man of an-Nadir, he would be killed. But if a man of an-Nadir killed a man of Qurayzah, a hundred wasq of dates would be paid as blood-money. When Prophethood was bestowed upon the Prophet ﷺ, a man of an-Nadir killed a man of Qurayzah. They said: Give him to us, we shall kill him. They replied: We have the Prophet ﷺ between you and us. So they came to him. Thereupon the following verse was revealed: "If thou judge, judge in equity between them." "In equity" means life for a life. The following verse was then revealed: "Do they seek of a judgment of (the days) ignorance?" Abu Dawud said: Quraizah and al-Nadir were the descendants of Harun the Prophet (peace be upon him)

Notes

  • قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ قُرَيْظَةُ وَالنَّضِيرُ جَمِيعًا مِنْ وَلَدِ هَارُونَ النَّبِيِّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 3591al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1104al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15983Sunan al-Daraqutni 3447

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
    عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
    عن
  3. Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī
    Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
    سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
    عن
  4. ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 154 AH, or 157 AH
    عَلِيِّ بْنِ صَالِحٍثقة عابد
    عن
  5. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Mūsā
    Trustworthy (thiqah); he leaned towards Shiism (kāna yatashayyaʿ).d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AH
    عُبَيْدُ اللهِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُوسَىثقة ، كان يتشيع
    نا
  6. Abū Kurayb
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  7. 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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Commentaries

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