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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
  1. Ibrāhīm b. Mūsá
  2. Ibn Abū Zāʾidah
  3. ʿIkrimah b. ʿAmmār
  4. Iyās b. Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ
  5. 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.

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al-AlbaniSoundAnother source records this grader as “Good” (hadithunlocked).fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidSahihfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiSahih Muslim (2993)fawazahmed0

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. present at the Pledge of Riḍwānd. 64 AH or 74 AH; Ibn Saʿd said: at the end of the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
    سَلَمَةُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِ الْأَسْلَمِيُّشهد بيعة الرضوان
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 119 AH
    إِيَاسِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْأَكْوَعِثقة
    عن
  3. 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 AH
    عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍصدوق يغلط ، وفي روايته عن يحيى بن أبي كثير اضطراب ، ولم يكن له كتاب
    عن
  4. trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 183, also said 180 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 184 AH
    ابْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَثقة متقن
    نا
  5. trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 219 AH, or 220-odd AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة حافظ
    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

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