Sunan Abi Dawud 4726

Translation

An A’rab(a nomadic Arab) came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: People suffering distress, the children are hungry, the crops are withered, and the animals are perished, so ask Allah to grant us rain, for we seek you as our intercessor with Allah, and Allah as intercessor with you. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Woe to you: Do you know what you are saying? Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared Allah’s glory and he continued declaring His glory till the effect of that was apparent in the faces of his Companions. He then said: Woe to you: Allah is not to be sought as intercessor with anyone. Allah’s state is greater than that. Woe to you! Do you know how great Allah is? His throne is above the heavens thus(indicating with his fingers like a dome over him), and it groans on account of Him as a saddle does because of the rider. Ibn Bashshar said in his version: Allah is above the throne, and the throne is above the heavens. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition. ‘Abd al-A’la, Ibn al- Muthana and Ibn Bashshar transmitted it from Ya’qub b. ‘Utbah and Jubair b. Muhammad b. Jubair from his father on the authority of his grandfather. Abu Dawud said: This tradition with the chain of Ahmad b. Sa’ad is sound. It has been approved by the body (of traditionists), which includes Yahya b. Ma’in and ‘Ali b. al-Madani, and a group has transmitted it from Ibn Ishaq, as Ahmad also said. And so far as I have been informed ‘Abd al-A’la, Ibn al-Muthanna, and Ibn Bashshar had heard from the same copy(of the collection of tradition).

Notes

• قَالَ ابْنُ بَشَّارٍ فِي حَدِيثِهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ فَوْقَ عَرْشِهِ وَعَرْشُهُ فَوْقَ سَمَوَاتِهِ وَسَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ وَقَالَ عَبْدُ الأَعْلَى وَابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنُ بَشَّارٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ وَجُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَالْحَدِيثُ بِإِسْنَادِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ هُوَ الصَّحِيحُ وَافَقَهُ عَلَيْهِ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْهُمْ يَحْيَى بْنُ مَعِينٍ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمَدِينِيِّ وَرَوَاهُ جَمَاعَةٌ عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ كَمَا قَالَ أَحْمَدُ أَيْضًا وَكَانَ سَمَاعُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى وَابْنِ الْمُثَنَّى وَابْنِ بَشَّارٍ مِنْ نُسْخَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Daʾūd

  والحديث بإسناد أحمد بن سعيد هو الصحيح

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4711
• Bazzār

  هذا الحديث لا نعلمه يروى عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من جهة من الوجوه إلا من هذا الوجه ولم يقل فيه محمد بن إسحاق حدثني يعقوب بن عتبة

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4711
• العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

  وأما قولكم إنه لم يصرح بسماعه من يعقوب بن عتبة فعلى تقدير ثبوت العلم بهذا النفي لا يخرج الحديث عن كونه حسنا فإنه قد لقي يعقوب وسمع منه

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4711
• Dāraquṭnī

  رواه وهب بن جرير عن أبيه واختلف عن وهب فرواه عبد الأعلى بن حماد وبندار عن وهب عن أبيه عن ابن إسحاق عن يعقوب بن عتبة وجبير بن محمد عن أبيه عن جده وكذلك رواه علي بن المديني ويحيى بن معين وإبراهيم بن عرعرة وأخو كرخويه عن وهب بن جرير وكذلك رواه سلمة بن شبيب عن حفص بن عبد الرحمن عن ابن إسحاق عن يعقوب بن عتبة عن جبير بن محمد عن أبيه عن جده وهو الصواب

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4711

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 5727وَعَنْ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍ قَالَ: أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ فَقَالَ: جَهِدَتِ الْأَنْفُسُ وَجَاعَ الْعِيَالُ وَنُهِكَتِ الْأَمْوَالُ وَهَلَكَتِ الْأَنْعَام فَاسْتَسْقِ اللَّهَ لَنَا فَإِنَّا نَس

Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1545al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5948Musnad al-Bazzar 3428

Narrators

1. 1
   Jubayr b. Muṭʿim b. ʿAdī al-Nawfalī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī said: 56 AH. Al-Madāʾinī said: 58 AH. Ibn al-Barqī and Khalīfah said: 59 AH., in the book "al-Istīʿāb": also said: 57 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: it is said he died on the same day as Rāfiʿ b. Khadīj
   جُبَيْرُ بْنُ مُطْعِمِ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ النَّوْفَلِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim al-Nawfalī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) in genealogyd. at the turn of 100 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة بالنسب
   عن
3. 3
   Jubayr b. Muḥammad b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 111 AH and 120 AH
   جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍمقبول
   عن
4. 4
   Yaʿqūb b. ʿUtbah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 128 AH.
   يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ عُتْبَةَثقة .
   يحدث عن
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
   مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
   سمعت
6. 6
   Jarīr b. Ḥāzim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but there is weakness in his narrations from Qatādah, and he has errors (awhām) when he narrates from memoryd. 170 AH or 177 AH or 179 AH, also said: 167 AH
   أَبِيثقة ، لكن في حديثه عن قتادة ضعف ، وله أوهام إذا حدث من حفظه
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Wahb b. Jarīr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 206 AH, or 207 AH
   وَهْبُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍثقة
   نا
8. 8
   Aḥmad b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. al-Qabbānī said: after the year of the earthquake, the year 243 AH. Al-Ḥākim said: at the end of 245 AH. Al-Bukhārī reported from Ibn Aḥmad: 246 AH. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ said: 251 AH, also said: 259 AH
   وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الرِّبَاطِيُّثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
9. 9
   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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Mishkat al-Masabih 5727