Sunan Abi Dawud 4901

Translation

I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: There were two men among Banu Isra'il, who were striving for the same goal. One of them would commit sin and the other would strive to do his best in the world. The man who exerted himself in worship continued to see the other in sin. He would say: Refrain from it. One day he found him in sin and said to him: Refrain from it. He said: Leave me alone with my Lord. Have you been sent as a watchman over me? He said: I swear by Allah, Allah will not forgive you, nor will he admit you to Paradise. Then their souls were taken back (by Allah), and they met together with the Lord of the worlds. He (Allah) said to this man who had striven hard in worship; Had you knowledge about Me or had you power over that which I had in My hand? He said to the man who sinned: Go and enter Paradise by My mercy. He said about the other: Take him to Hell. AbuHurayrah said: By Him in Whose hand my soul is, he spoke a word by which this world and the next world of his were destroyed.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَتَكَلَّمَ بِكَلِمَةٍ أَوْبَقَتْ دُنْيَاهُ وَآخِرَتَهُ

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What scholars said about it

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• ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī

  في إسناده علي بن ثابت الجزري قال الأزدي ضعيف الحديث وقال أبو حاتم يكتب حديثه وقال ابن معين ثقة وقال أبو زرعة ثقة لا بأس به

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 4886
• Shuayb al-Arnaut

  إسناده حسن، ومتنه غريب

  in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4901

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2621Sahih Ibn Hibban 5711al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1677Musnad Abi Ya'la 1529al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3513

Narrators

1. 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
   قال
2. 2
   Ḍamḍam b. Jaws

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   ضَمْضَمُ بْنُ جَوْسٍثقة
   حدثني
3. 3
   ʿIkrimah b. ʿAmmār

   truthful (ṣadūq) but makes errors; there is inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in his narration from Yaḥyā b. Abī Kathīr, and he had no bookd. 159 AH, or 160 AH
   عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍصدوق يغلط ، وفي روايته عن يحيى بن أبي كثير اضطراب ، ولم يكن له كتاب
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAlī b. Thābit

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he sometimes made mistakesd. between 181 AH and 190 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ ثَابِتٍصدوق ، ربما أخطأ
   نا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. al-Ṣabbāḥ

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 240 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ بْنِ سُفْيَانَصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 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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