Sunan Abi Dawud 4611

Translation

Whenever he (mu’adh b. jabal) sat in a meeting for preaching, he would say: Allah is a just arbiter; those who doubt would perish. One day Mu’adh b. jabal said: In the times after you there would be trails in which riches would be abundant. During these trails the Quran would be easy so much so that every believer, hypocrite, man, woman, young, grown up, slave and free man will learn it. Then a man might say: What happened with the people that they do not follow me while I read the Quran? They are not going to follow me until I introduce a novelty for them other than it. So avoid that which is innovated (in religion), for whichever is innovated is an error. I warn you of the deviation of a scholar from right guidance, for sometimes Satan utters a word of error through the tongue of a scholar; and sometimes a hypocrites may speak a word of truth. I said to Mu’adh b. jabal: I am at a loss to understand may Allah have mercy on you that a learned man sometimes may speak a word of error and a hypocrite may speak a word of truth. He replied: Yes, avoid the speech of a learned man on distract you from him (the learned), for it is possible that he may withdraw (from these well-known things), and you get the truth when you hear it, for truth has light. Abu Dawud said: In this tradition Ma’mar on the authority of al-Zuhrl said: The words “wa la yun iyannaka” instead of “wa la yuthniyannaka,” with the same meaning: “it may not distract you” salih b. Kaisan on the authority of al-Zurhrl said in this tradition the words “al-mushtaharat” (well-know things). He also said the word “La yuthniyannaka” as ‘Uqail mentioned. Ibn ishaq, on the authority of al-Zuhri, said: Yes, if you are doubtful about the speech of a scholar until you say: WHAT did he mean by this word?

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالَ مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ فِي هَذَا وَلاَ يُنْئِيَنَّكَ ذَلِكَ عَنْهُ مَكَانَ يُثْنِيَنَّكَ وَقَالَ صَالِحُ بْنُ كَيْسَانَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ فِي هَذَا الْمُشَبَّهَاتِ مَكَانَ الْمُشْتَهِرَاتِ وَقَالَ لاَ يُثْنِيَنَّكَ كَمَا قَالَ عُقَيْلٌ وَقَالَ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ بَلَى مَا تَشَابَهَ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ قَوْلِ الْحَكِيمِ حَتَّى تَقُولَ مَا أَرَادَ بِهَذِهِ الْكَلِمَةِ

  machine translationAbū Dāwūd said: Maʿmar said, from al-Zuhrī, in this (report): "and let that not turn you away (yunʾiyannaka) from him," in place of "let it not dissuade you (yuthniyannaka)." Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān said, from al-Zuhrī, in this (report): "the doubtful matters (al-mushabbahāt)" in place of "the well-known ones (al-mushtaharāt)," and he said: "let it not dissuade you (lā yuthniyannaka)," as ʿUqayl said. Ibn Isḥāq said, from al-Zuhrī: He said: "Rather, whatever of the words of the wise man is unclear to you, until you say: What did he intend by this word?" Report a problem

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  in صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 4611

Other narrations of this report

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Narrators

1. 1
   Muʿādh b. Jabal

   well-known, among the notable Companionsd. 17 AH, or: 18 AH
   مُعَاذ بْن جَبَلمشهور ، من أعيان الصحابة
   فقال
2. 2
   Yazīd b. ʿAmīrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 61 and 70 AH
   يَزِيدَ بْنَ عَمِيرَةَثقة .
   أخبره
3. 3
   ʿĀʾidhullāh b. ʿAbdullāh al-Khawlānī

   Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: "He was the scholar of the Levant after Abū al-Dardāʾ."d. 80 AH
   أَبَا إِدْرِيسَ الْخَوْلَانِيَّ عَائِذَ اللهِقال سعيد بن عبد العزيز : كان عالم الشام بعد أبى الدرداء
   أخبره
4. 4
   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
5. 5
   ʿUqayl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AH
   عُقَيْلٍثقة ثبت
   عن
6. 6
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   اللَّيْثُثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   نا
7. 7
   Yazīd b. Mawhab

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 232 AH or after it, also said: 233 AH; also said: 237 AH
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ خَالِدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَوْهَبٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّثقه عابد .
   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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