Sunan Abi Dawud 4693

Translation

Allah created Adam from a handful which he took from the whole of the earth ; so the children of Adam are in accordance with the earth: some red, some white, some black, some a mixture, also smooth and rough, bad and good.

Notes

• زَادَ فِي حَدِيثِ يَحْيَى وَبَيْنَ ذَلِكَ وَالإِخْبَارُ فِي حَدِيثِ يَزِيدَ

  machine translationHe added in the hadith of Yaḥyā: "and between that"; and the phrase "the informing" (al-ikhbār) is in the hadith of Yazīd. Report a problem

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 100وَعَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ آدَمَ مِنْ قَبْضَةٍ قَبَضَهَا مِنْ جَمِيعِ الْأَرْضِ فَجَاءَ بَنُو آدَمَ عَلَى قَدْرِ الْأَرْضِ مِنْهُمُ الْأَحْمَرُ وَالْأ
• Jami at-Tirmidzi 2955إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى خَلَقَ آدَمَ مِنْ قَبْضَةٍ قَبَضَهَا مِنْ جَمِيعِ الأَرْضِ فَجَاءَ بَنُو آدَمَ عَلَى قَدْرِ الأَرْضِ فَجَاءَ مِنْهُمُ الأَحْمَرُ وَالأَبْيَضُ وَالأَسْوَدُ وَبَيْنَ ذَلِكَ وَالسَّهْلُ وَالْحَزْنُ وَالْخَبِيثُ وَالطَّيِ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Ibn Hibban 6181Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 5617Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 5618al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17780al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 3037al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 838

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
   أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
   نا
2. 2
   Qasāmah b. Zuhayr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 80 AH, and before 100 AH
   قَسَامَةُ بْنُ زُهَيْرٍثقة
   نا
3. 3
   ʿAwf b. Abī Jamīlah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism and Shīʿismd. 146 AH, or 147 AH
   عَوْفٌثقة رمي بالقدر وبالتشيع
   نا
4. 4
   Yaḥyā

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
   وَيَحْيَى بْنَ سَعِيدٍثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
   حدثاهم
5. 5
   Musaddad

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
   مُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
   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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