Sunan Abi Dawud 5103

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said: When you hear the barking of dogs and the braying of asses at night, seek refuge in Allah, for they see which you do not see.

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• ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī

  في إسناده محمد بن إسحاق

  machine translationIn its chain of transmission is Muḥammad b. Isḥāq. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 5087

Same hadith, other wordings

• Hisnul Muslim 229إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ نُبَاحَ الْكِلاَبِ وَنَهِيقَ الْحَمِيرِ بِاللَّيْلِ فَتَعَوَّذُوا بِاللَّهِ مِنْهُنَّ؛ فَإِنَّهُنَّ يَرَيْنَ مَا لاَ تَرَوْنَ
• Misykatul Mashabih 4302عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ نُبَاحَ الْكِلَابِ وَنَهِيقَ الْحَمِيرِ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَتَعَوَّذُوا بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ فَإِنَّهُنَّ يَرَيْنَ مَا لَا ت
• Al-Mustadrak al-Hakim 7762«إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ نُبَاحَ الْكِلَابِ وَنَهِيقَ الْحَمِيرِ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَتَعَوَّذُوا بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ فَإِنَّهَا تَرَى مَا لَا تَرَوْنَ وَأَقِلُّوا الْخُرُوجَ إِذَا حَدَثَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَبُثُّ فِي لَيْلِه

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3303Sahih Muslim 2729Sunan Abi Dawud 5102Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3459Musnad Ahmad 8764al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10741

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār al-Hilālī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH
   عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادة
   عن
3. 3
   Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith al-Taymī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some unique narrations (afrād)d. 119 AH, or 120 AH, or 121 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة له أفراد
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAbdah b. Sulaymān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 186 AH or 187 AH or 188 AH
   عَبْدَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
6. 6
   Hannād

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AH
   هَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   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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