Sunan Abi Dawud 5037
How many times should one say "May Allah have mercy on you" to one who sneezes?
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حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ إِيَاسِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الأَكْوَعِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ
أَنَّ رَجُلاً عَطَسَ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ عَطَسَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ الرَّجُلُ مَزْكُومٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibrāhīm b. Mūsá
- Ibn Abū Zāʾidah
- ʿIkrimah b. ʿAmmār
- Iyās b. Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ
- his father
when a man sneezed beside the prophet (May peace be upon him), he said to him: Allah have mercy on you, but when he sneezed again, he said: The man has a cold in the head.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | SoundAnother source records this grader as “Good” (hadithunlocked). | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih Muslim (2993) | fawazahmed0 |
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2715Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2743bJami' at-Tirmidhi 3396Muwatta' Malik 54-4Musnad Ahmad 12552Musnad Ahmad 12712Musnad Ahmad 13653Sahih Ibn Hibban 5540Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26500Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26503Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26505Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19758
Narrators
- present at the Pledge of Riḍwānd. 64 AH or 74 AH; Ibn Saʿd said: at the end of the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyānسَلَمَةُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ الْأَسْلَمِيُّشهد بيعة الرضوانعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 119 AHإِيَاسِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِثقةعن
- 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 AHعِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍصدوق يغلط ، وفي روايته عن يحيى بن أبي كثير اضطراب ، ولم يكن له كتابعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 183, also said 180 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 184 AHابْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَثقة متقننا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 219 AH, or 220-odd AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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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Commentaries
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