Sunan Abi Dawud 5124
When one man loves another because of some good that he sees
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ ثَوْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي حَبِيبُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِيكَرِبَ وَقَدْ كَانَ أَدْرَكَهُ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
إِذَا أَحَبَّ الرَّجُلُ أَخَاهُ فَلْيُخْبِرْهُ أَنَّهُ يُحِبُّهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Yaḥyá
- Thawr
- Ḥabīb b. ʿUbayd
- al-Miqdām b. Maʿdīkarib and Qad Kān Adrakah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: When a man loves his brother, he should tell him that he loves him.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
حسن صحيح غريب
machine translationGood, authentic, and gharīb (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5108 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
لم أعلم روى هذا الحديث عن ثور إلا يحيى القطان وأبو همام محمد بن الزبرقان وليس هذا الحديث بالشام قال أبو محمد وحدثنا يزيد بن سنان قال حدثنا يحيى بن سعيد القطان بهذا الحديث
machine translationI do not know of anyone who narrated this hadith from Thawr except Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān and Abū Hammām Muḥammad b. al-Zibriqān, and this hadith is not found in al-Shām. Abū Muḥammad said: Yazīd b. Sinān narrated to us, he said: Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us this hadith.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5108
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2392Musnad Ahmad 21294Musnad Ahmad 21514Sahih Ibn Hibban 570al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 18838al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20279al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7859al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7322
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 87 AH, also said: 83 AH, also said: 86 AH, also said: 88 AHالْمِقْدَام بْن مَعْدِي كَرِب الْكِنْدِيّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AHحَبِيبُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍثقةحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), except that he held the Qadarī viewd. al-Tirmidhī said: 150 AH. From al-Haytham b. ʿAdī: 151 AH. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā said: I was informed that he died in the year 152 AH. Ibn Saʿd and a group said: 153 AH. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr and others said: 155 AHثَوْرٍثقة ثبت ، إلا أنه يرى القدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةنا
- 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
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Commentaries
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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