Sunan Abi Dawud 5057
What to say when going to sleep
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حَدَّثَنَا مُؤَمَّلُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْحَّرَّانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ عَنْ بَحِيرٍ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي بِلاَلٍ عَنْ عِرْبَاضِ بْنِ سَارِيَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ
كَانَ يَقْرَأُ الْمُسَبِّحَاتِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْقُدَ وَقَالَ إِنَّ فِيهِنَّ آيَةً أَفْضَلُ مِنْ أَلْفِ آيَةٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muʾammal b. al-Faḍl al-Ḥḥarrānī
- Baqiyyah
- Baḥīr
- Khālid b. Maʿdān
- Ibn Abū Bilāl
- ʿIrbāḍ b. Sāriyah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to recite al-Musabbihat before going to sleep, and say: They contain a verse which is better than a thousand verses.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
في إسناده بقية بن الوليد وبقية فيه مقال
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5041 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب
machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5041
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2151وَعَنِ الْعِرْبَاضِ بْنِ سَارِيَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَقْرَأُ الْمُسَبِّحَاتِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْقُدَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ فِيهِنَّ آيَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ آيَةٍ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ. وَ
- Jami at-Tirmidzi 2921أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ يَقْرَأُ الْمُسَبِّحَاتِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْقُدَ وَيَقُولُ إِنَّ فِيهِنَّ آيَةً خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ آيَةٍ
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 75 AHعِرْبَاضُ بْنُ سَارِيَةَصحابيعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)ابْنِ أَبِي بِلَالٍمقبولعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), who often narrated with omission of the Companion or intermediary (yursilu kathīran).d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, also said: 106 AH, or: 108 AHخَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَثقة عابد ، يرسل كثيرا.عن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 141 and 150 AHبَحِيرٍثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AHبَقِيَّةُصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاءنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 229 AH, or 230 AHمُؤَمَّلُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْحَرَّانِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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