Sunan Abi Dawud 4975
The slave should not say Rabbi or Rabbati (My lord, My lady)
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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ وَحَبِيبِ بْنِ الشَّهِيدِ وَهِشَامٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
لاَ يَقُولَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ عَبْدِي وَأَمَتِي وَلاَ يَقُولَنَّ الْمَمْلُوكُ رَبِّي وَرَبَّتِي وَلْيَقُلِ الْمَالِكُ فَتَاىَ وَفَتَاتِي وَلْيَقُلِ الْمَمْلُوكُ سَيِّدِي وَسَيِّدَتِي فَإِنَّكُمُ الْمَمْلُوكُونَ وَالرَّبُّ اللَّهُ ﷻ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl
- Ḥammād
- Ayyūb and Ḥabīb b. al-Shahīd Wahishām
- Muḥammad
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: None of you must say: "My slave" (abdi) and "My slave-woman" (amati), and a slave must not say: "My lord" (rabbi or rabbati). The master (of a slave) should say: "My young man" (fataya) and "My young woman" (fatati), and a slave should say "My master" (sayyidi) and "My mistress" (sayyidati), for you are all (Allah's slave and the Lord is Allah, Most High.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 4975 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Qurṭubī
قوله ولا يقل أحدكم ربي وليقل سيدي ومولاي هذا اللفظ متفق عليه عند أكثر الرواة
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4960 - عياض بن موسى اليحصبي
ولا يقل أحدكم مولاي فإن مولاكم الله اختلفوا في هذه الزيادة على الأعمش منهم من ذكرها ومنهم من حذفها وقال عياض حذفها أصح
machine translation"And let none of you say 'my master (mawlāya)', for your Master (mawlā) is Allah." They differed regarding this addition from al-Aʿmash: some of them mentioned it and some omitted it. ʿIyāḍ said: its omission is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4960 - Qurṭubī
اختلفوا في هذه الزيادة على الأعمش منهم من ذكرها ومنهم من حذفها وقال عياض حذفها أصح وقال القرطبي المشهور حذفها قال وإنما صرنا إلى الترجيح للتعارض مع تعذر الجمع
machine translationThey differed regarding this addition from al-Aʿmash: some of them mentioned it and some omitted it. ʿIyāḍ said: its omission is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ). Al-Qurṭubī said: the well-known position is its omission. He said: we resorted to preference (tarjīḥ) only because of the conflict, since reconciling them was not possible.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 4960
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 2552Sahih Muslim 2249cSunan Abi Dawud 4976Musnad Ahmad 10281Musnad Ahmad 10436Musnad Ahmad 9551
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), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AHمُحَمَّدٍثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنىعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), among the most reliable of people in narrating from Ibn Sīrīn; there is some criticism of his narration from al-Ḥasan and ʿAṭāʾ, because it was said that he used to narrate from them by way of mursal transmission (irsāl).d. 146 AH, or 147 AH, or 148 AHوَهِشَامٍثقة من أثبت الناس في ابن سيرين ، وفي روايته عن الحسن وعطاء مقال لأنه قيل : كان يرسل عنهماعن
- 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
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