Sunan Abi Dawud 5093
What a man should say when he sees the new crescent
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ أَنَّ زَيْدَ بْنَ حُبَابٍ أَخْبَرَهُمْ عَنْ أَبِي هِلاَلٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ
كَانَ إِذَا رَأَى الْهِلاَلَ صَرَفَ وَجْهَهُ عَنْهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Zayd b. Ḥubāb
- Abū Hilāl
- Qatādah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw the new moon, he turned away his face from it. Abu Dawud said: On this subject there is no tradition which has perfect chain and is sound.
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ لَيْسَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فِي هَذَا الْبَابِ حَدِيثٌ مُسْنَدٌ صَحِيحٌ
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak Chain | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif Isnaad | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Abū Daʾūd
ليس عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في هذا الباب حديث مسند صحيح
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5077 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
هذا الحديث مرسل وأبو هلال هذا لا يحتج به
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5077 - Abū Daʾūd
ليس في هذا الباب عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم حديث مسند صحيح
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5077
Narrators
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AHقَتَادَة بْن دِعَامَةثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), with some softness (layyin)d. 167 AH, also said: 169 AHأَبِي هِلَالٍصدوق فيه لينعن
- and he is truthful (ṣadūq), errs in the hadith of al-Thawrīd. 203 AH, also said: 204 AHزَيْدَ بْنَ حُبَابٍوهو صدوق ، يخطئ في حديث الثوريأخبرهم
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة 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
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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