Sunan Abi Dawud 494
When A Boy Should Be Ordered To Offer As-Salat
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى يَعْنِي ابْنَ الطَّبَّاعِ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ سَبْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ
مُرُوا الصَّبِيَّ بِالصَّلاَةِ إِذَا بَلَغَ سَبْعَ سِنِينَ وَإِذَا بَلَغَ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ فَاضْرِبُوهُ عَلَيْهَا
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá / Ibn al-Ṭabbāʿ
- Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. al-Rabīʿ b. Sabrah
- his father
- his father
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: Command a boy to pray when he reaches the age of seven years. When he becomes ten years old, then beat him for prayer.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good-Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Soundin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 494Another source records this grader as “Hasan Sahih” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
| 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.
- Ishbīlī
أصح ما في الباب
machine translationThe most authentic report on this topic.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 491 - Ibn Ḥazm
هذا حديث لا يصح
machine translationThis hadith is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 491
Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 302" علموا الصبي الصلاة لسبع سنين" واضربوه عليها ابن عشر سنين"
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 495al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3283al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 3285Sunan al-Daraqutni 888Musnad al-Bazzar 9832al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 721
Narrators
- He has companionship (Companion, ṣuḥbah)d. during Muʿāwiyah's caliphate, between 51 AH and 60 AHسَبْرَةُ بْنُ مَعْبَدٍ الْجُهَنِيُّله صحبةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- Al-ʿIjlī declared him trustworthy (thiqah).عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ سَبْرَةَوثقه العجليعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادححدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 224 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى يَعْنِي ابْنَ الطَّبَّاعِثقة فقيهحدثنا
- 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
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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