Sunan Abi Dawud 4646
The Caliphs
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حَدَّثَنَا سَوَّارُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَ عَنْ سَفِينَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
خِلاَفَةُ النُّبُوَّةِ ثَلاَثُونَ سَنَةً ثُمَّ يُؤْتِي اللَّهُ الْمُلْكَ أَوْ مُلْكَهُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ قَالَ سَعِيدٌ قَالَ لِي سَفِينَةُ أَمْسِكْ عَلَيْكَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ سَنَتَيْنِ وَعُمَرَ عَشْرًا وَعُثْمَانَ اثْنَتَىْ عَشْرَةَ وَعَلِيٌّ كَذَا قَالَ سَعِيدٌ قُلْتُ لِسَفِينَةَ إِنَّ هَؤُلاَءِ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ لَمْ يَكُنْ بِخَلِيفَةٍ قَالَ كَذَبَتْ أَسْتَاهُ بَنِي الزَّرْقَاءِ يَعْنِي بَنِي مَرْوَانَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Sawwār b. ʿAbdullāh
- ʿAbd al-Wārith b. Saʿīd
- Saʿīd b. Jumhān
- Safīnah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: The Caliphate of Prophecy will last thirty years; then Allah will give the Kingdom of His Kingdom to anyone He wills. Sa'id told that Safinah said to him: Calculate Abu Bakr's caliphate as two years, 'Umar's as ten, 'Uthman's as twelve and 'Ali so and so. Sa'id said: I said to Safinah: They conceive that 'Ali was not a caliph. He replied: The buttocks of Marwan told a lie.
Notes
قَالَ سَعِيدٌ قَالَ لِي سَفِينَةُ أَمْسِكْ عَلَيْكَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ سَنَتَيْنِ وَعُمَرَ عَشْرًا وَعُثْمَانَ اثْنَتَىْ عَشْرَةَ وَعَلِيٌّ كَذَا. قَالَ سَعِيدٌ قُلْتُ لِسَفِينَةَ إِنَّ هَؤُلاَءِ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ عَلِيًّا عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ لَمْ يَكُنْ بِخَلِيفَةٍ. قَالَ كَذَبَتْ أَسْتَاهُ بَنِي الزَّرْقَاءِ يَعْنِي
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good-Soundin صحيح أبي داود, p. 4646Another source records this grader as “Good” (hadithunlocked). | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
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| M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī | Soundin سنن أبي داود, p. 4632 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
سعيد بن جمهان وثقه يحيى بن معين وأبو داود السجستاني وقال أبو حاتم الرازي شيخ يكتب حديثه ولا يحتج به
machine translationSaʿīd b. Jumhān was declared trustworthy (thiqah) by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn and Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: "A shaykh whose hadith is written down but not used as proof."
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4632 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن لا نعرفه إلا من حديث سعيد
machine translationFair (ḥasan); we do not know it except from the hadith of Saʿīd.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4632
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 5395وَعَن سفينة قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «الْخِلَافَةُ ثَلَاثُونَ سَنَةً ثُمَّ تَكُونُ مُلْكًا». ثُمَّ يَقُولُ سَفِينَةُ: أَمْسِكْ: خِلَافَةَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ سَنَتَيْنِ وَخِلَافَةَ عُمَرَ عَشْرَةً وَعُث
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 6943al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 135Musnad al-Bazzar 3815Musnad al-Bazzar 3816Musnad al-Tayalisi 1205
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. He died at the same time as Jābir, in the time of al-Ḥajjāj, or between the years 200 and 90.سَفِينَة مَوْلَى رَسُول اللهصحابيعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), has solitary reports (afrād)d. 136 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ جُمْهَانَصدوق له أفرادعن
- trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was accused of belief in qadar (al-qadar), but this was not established about himd. 179 AH or 180 AH; also said: 178 AHعَبْدُ الْوَارِثِ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت , رمي بالقدر ولم يثبت عنهنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 245 AHسَوَّارُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقةحدثنا
- 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
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
شرح مشكل الآثار
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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