Sunan Abi Dawud 4889
Regarding spying
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حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْحَضْرَمِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ حَدَّثَنَا ضَمْضَمُ بْنُ زُرْعَةَ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ نُفَيْرٍ وَكَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ وَعَمْرِو بْنِ الأَسْوَدِ وَالْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِيكَرِبَ وَأَبِي أُمَامَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
إِنَّ الأَمِيرَ إِذَا ابْتَغَى الرِّيبَةَ فِي النَّاسِ أَفْسَدَهُمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Saʿīd b. ʿAmr al-Ḥaḍramī
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh
- Ḍamḍam b. Zurʿah
- Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd
- Jubayr b. Nufayr and Kathīr b. Murrah Waʿamriw b. al-Aswad Wa-al-Miqdām b. Maʿdīkarib Waʾabī Umāmah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: When a ruler seeks to make imputations against the people, he corrupts them.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound Due to External Factors | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih Lighairihi | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | 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
في إسناده إسماعيل بن عياش وفيه مقال
machine translationIn its chain is Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh, and there is criticism about him.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4874
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3708وَعَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ الْأَمِيرَ إِذَا ابْتَغَى الرِّيبَةَ فِي النَّاسِ أَفْسَدَهُمْ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 17943al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18828al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18830al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7541al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7542al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7968
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh said: 81 AH. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī and more than one said: 86 AHأَبُو أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 100 AHشُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)ضَمْضَمُ بْنُ زُرْعَةَصدوق يهمنا
- truthful (ṣadūq) in his narration from the people of his own land, but confused (mukhaliṭ) in his narration from othersd. 181 AH, or 182 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍصدوق في روايته عن أهل بلده ، مخلط في غيرهمنا
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 221 AH and 230 AHسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْحِمْصِيُّمقبولحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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