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Sunan Abi Dawud 4959

Changing bad names

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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الرُّكَيْنَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ نُسَمِّيَ رَقِيقَنَا أَرْبَعَةَ أَسْمَاءٍ أَفْلَحَ وَيَسَارًا وَنَافِعًا وَرَبَاحًا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
  2. al-Muʿtamir
  3. al-Rukayn Yuḥaddith
  4. his father
  5. Samurah

The Aposlte of Allah (May peace be upon him) forbade giving four names to our slaves: Aflah (successful), Yasar (wealth), Naf(beneficial) and Rabah (profit).

Grades by grader

al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح أبي داود, p. 4959fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidSahihfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiSahih Muslim (2136)fawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • al-Albani

    سكت عنه [وقد قال في رسالته لأهل مكة كل ما سكت عنه فهو صالح]

    machine translationHe (Abū Dāwūd) remained silent about it [and he said in his letter to the people of Mecca: everything I have remained silent about is acceptable (ṣāliḥ)].

    in صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 4959

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, also said 59 AH,, also said beginning of 60 AH, also said between 55 AH and 60 AH
    سَمُرَةُ بْنُ جُنْدُبٍصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة
    يحدث عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 131 AH
    الرُّكَيْنَثقة
    سمعت
  4. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AH
    الْمُعْتَمِرُثقة
    نا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
    حدثنا
  6. 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

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

شرح مشكل الآثار
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)

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