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Sunan Abi Dawud 4877

Regarding backbiting (al-ghibah)

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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُسَافِرٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

إِنَّ مِنْ أَكْبَرِ الْكَبَائِرِ اسْتِطَالَةَ الْمَرْءِ فِي عِرْضِ رَجُلٍ مُسْلِمٍ بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ وَمِنَ الْكَبَائِرِ السَّبَّتَانِ بِالسَّبَّةِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Jaʿfar b. Musāfir
  2. ʿAmr b. Abū Salamah
  3. Zuhayr
  4. al-ʿAlāʾ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  5. his father
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said: The gravest sin is going to lengths in talking unjustly against a Muslim's honour, and it is a major sin to abuse twice for abusing once.

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al-AlbaniWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidDaiffawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSound Due to External Factorsin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4877hadithunlocked
Zubair Ali ZaiDaiffawazahmed0

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Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. 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. trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة
    عن
  3. truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 130-odd, or: 132 AH, or: 139 AH
    الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِصدوق ربما وهم
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), except that the narrations of the people of Syria from him are not sound (ghayr mustaqīmah), and he was therefore declared weak (ḍuʿʿifa) because of them.d. 162 AH
    زُهَيْرٌثقة ، إلا أن رواية أهل الشام عنه غير مستقيمة ، فضعف بسببها
    نا
  5. Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ أَبِي سَلَمَةَصدوق له أوهام
    نا
  6. truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 254 AH
    جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُسَافِرٍصدوق ربما أخطأ
    حدثنا
  7. 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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