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Sunan Abi Dawud 4874

Regarding backbiting (al-ghibah)

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ الْقَعْنَبِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّهُ قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا الْغِيبَةُ قَالَ ذِكْرُكَ أَخَاكَ بِمَا يَكْرَهُ قِيلَ أَفَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ كَانَ فِي أَخِي مَا أَقُولُ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَ فِيهِ مَا تَقُولُ فَقَدِ اغْتَبْتَهُ وَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِيهِ مَا تَقُولُ فَقَدْ بَهَتَّهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah al-Qaʿnabī
  2. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz / Ibn Muḥammad
  3. al-ʿAlāʾ
  4. his father
  5. Abū Hurayrah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked: Messenger of Allah! What is back-biting? He replied: It is saying something about your brother which he would dislike. He was asked again: Tell me how the matter stands if what I say about my brother is true? He replied: If what you say of him is true, you have slandered him, and if what you say of him is not true, you have reviled him.

Grades by grader

al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 4874fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidSahihfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiSahih Muslim (2589)fawazahmed0

Other narrations of this report

Sunan ad-Darimi 2756al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18235Musnad al-Bazzar 8304Musnad Abi Ya'la 6532al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3184al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3189

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. his father
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة
    عن
  3. al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ḥuraqī
    truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AH
    الْعَلَاءِصدوق ربما وهم
    عن
  4. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad
    Truthful (ṣadūq); he used to narrate from the books of others and would make mistakes.d. 182 AH, or 186 AH, or 187 AH, or 189 AH
    عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ مُحَمَّدٍصدوق ، كان يحدث من كتب غيره فيخطئ
    نا
  5. al-Qaʿnabī
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ الْقَعْنَبِيُّثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  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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Commentaries

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