Sunan Abi Dawud 4900
Regarding the prohibition of speaking ill about the dead
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ أَخْبَرَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ أَنَسٍ الْمَكِّيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
اذْكُرُوا مَحَاسِنَ مَوْتَاكُمْ وَكُفُّوا عَنْ مَسَاوِيهِمْ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Muʿāwiyah b. Hishām
- ʿImrān b. Anas al-Makkī
- ʿAṭāʾ
- Ibn ʿUmar
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: Make a mention of the virtues of your dead, and refrain from (mentioning) their evils.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Sulaymān b. Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī
لم يروه عن عطاء إلا عمران ولا عن عمران إلا معاوية تفرد به أبو كريب
machine translationNone narrated it from ʿAṭāʾ except ʿImrān, and none narrated it from ʿImrān except Muʿāwiyah; Abū Kurayb was alone in narrating it.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4885 - al-Tirmidhi
غريب
machine translationGharīb.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4885 - al-Bukhari
عمران بن أنس المكي منكر الحديث
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4885 - أبو أحمد الحاكم
حديثه يعني عمران بن أنس ليس بالمعروف
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4885
Same hadith, other wordings
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 1019اذْكُرُوا مَحَاسِنَ مَوْتَاكُمْ وَكُفُّوا عَنْ مَسَاوِيهِمْ
- Misykatul Mashabih 1678وَعَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «اذْكُرُوا مَحَاسِنَ مَوْتَاكُمْ وَكُفُّوا عَنْ مُسَاوِيهِمْ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَالتِّرْمِذِيُّ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Ibn Hibban 3020al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13635al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 462al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7288al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 1421
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous, but he often narrated with omission of the Companion (irsāl); it is said that he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life, though this was not frequent in himd. 112 AH, or 114 AH, or 115 AH, or 116 AH, or 117 AHعَطَاءٍثقة فقيه ، فاضل لكنه كثير الإرسال ، وقيل : إنه تغير بآخره ، ولم يكثر ذلك منهعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 151 and 160 AHعِمْرَانَ بْنِ أَنَسٍ الْمَكِّيِّضعيفعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 204 AH, or: 205 AHمُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ هِشَامٍصدوق له أوهامأنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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