Sunan Abi Dawud 5044
Which direction should one face while sleeping
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ أَبِي قِلاَبَةَ عَنْ بَعْضِ آلِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ
كَانَ فِرَاشُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ نَحْوًا مِمَّا يُوضَعُ الإِنْسَانُ فِي قَبْرِهِ وَكَانَ الْمَسْجِدُ عِنْدَ رَأْسِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Ḥammād
- Khālid al-Ḥadhhāʾ
- Abū Qilābah
- Baʿḍ Āl Um Salamah
Some relative of Umm Salamah said: The bed of the Prophet ﷺ was set as a man is laid in his grave; the mosque was towards his head.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
لا يعرف هذا الذي حدث عنه أبو قلابة هل له صحبة أم لا
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5028 - 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 ضعيف سنن أبي داود, p. 5044
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- بَعْض آل أُمّ سَلَمَةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, who often narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 104 AH, or 105 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AHأَبِي قِلَابَةَثقة فاضل ، كثير الإرسالعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he narrates with omission of the intermediary (yursil).d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, or more.خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِثقة يرسل.عن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه.نا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة 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
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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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