Sunan Abi Dawud 4940
Playing with pigeons
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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَأَى رَجُلاً يَتْبَعُ حَمَامَةً فَقَالَ شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl
- Ḥammād
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmr
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw a man pursuing a pigeon. He said: A devil is pursuing a female devil.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good-Soundin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 4940 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Good Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 4940 | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
في إسناده محمد بن عمرو بن علقمة الليثي وقد استشهد به مسلم ووثقه يحيى بن معين وذكر أقوال العلماء فيه
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAlqamah al-Laythī. Muslim cited him as corroborating support, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn declared him trustworthy (thiqah), and he mentioned the statements of the scholars about him.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4925 - Dāraquṭnī
والمرسل أصح
machine translationThe mursal version (the report narrated without the Companion in the chain) is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4925
Same hadith, other wordings
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 3765أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ رَأَى رَجُلاً يَتْبَعُ حَمَامَةً فَقَالَ شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 3766أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَأَى رَجُلاً وَرَاءَ حَمَامَةٍ فَقَالَ شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً
- Misykatul Mashabih 4506وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَأَى رَجُلًا يَتْبَعُ حَمَامَةً فَقَالَ: «شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً». رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَالْبِيهَقِيُّ فِي شُعَبِ الْإِيم
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Ibn Majah 3764Sahih Ibn Hibban 5874al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21002Musnad al-Bazzar 7332Musnad al-Bazzar 7998
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍوصدوق له أوهامعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 223 AH, or 226 AHمُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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