Sunan Abi Dawud 5157
Regarding the rights of slaves
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حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنِ الْمَعْرُورِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ قَالَ
رَأَيْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ بِالرَّبَذَةِ وَعَلَيْهِ بُرْدٌ غَلِيظٌ وَعَلَى غُلاَمِهِ مِثْلُهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ الْقَوْمُ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ لَوْ كُنْتَ أَخَذْتَ الَّذِي عَلَى غُلاَمِكَ فَجَعَلْتَهُ مَعَ هَذَا فَكَانَتْ حُلَّةً وَكَسَوْتَ غُلاَمَكَ ثَوْبًا غَيْرَهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ إِنِّي كُنْتُ سَابَبْتُ رَجُلاً وَكَانَتْ أُمُّهُ أَعْجَمِيَّةً فَعَيَّرْتُهُ بِأُمِّهِ فَشَكَانِي إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ إِنَّكَ امْرُؤٌ فِيكَ جَاهِلِيَّةٌ قَالَ إِنَّهُمْ إِخْوَانُكُمْ فَضَّلَكُمُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ فَمَنْ لَمْ يُلاَئِمْكُمْ فَبِيعُوهُ وَلاَ تُعَذِّبُوا خَلْقَ اللَّهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah
- Jarīr
- al-Aʿmash
- al-Maʿrūr b. Sūwayd
I saw Abu Dharr at Rabadhah. He was wearing a thick cloak, and his slave also wore a similar one. He said: the people said: Abu Dharr! (it would be better) if you could take the cloak which your slave wore, and you combined that with, and it would be a pair of garments (hullah) and you would clothe him with another garment. He said: Abu Dharr said: I abused a man whose mother was a non-Arab and I reviled him for his mother. He complained against me to the apostle of allah (May peace be upon him). He said: Abu Dharr! You are a man who has a characteristic of pre-Islamic days. He said: they are your brethren; Allah has given you superiority over them; sell those who do not please you and do not punish Allah’s creatures.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- الزيلعى
قلت تقدم في الحديث الذي قبله عند أبي داود بسند صحيح ولا تعذبوا خلق الله عن المعرور بن سويد
machine translationI say: It was mentioned in the hadith before it, in Abū Dāwūd with a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) chain of transmission: "and do not torment the creation of Allah," from al-Maʿrūr b. Suwayd.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5141 - Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
روي عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من وجوه كثيرة أحسنها حديث أبي ذر
machine translationIt has been narrated from the Prophet ﷺ through many routes, the best of which is the hadith of Abū Dharr.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5141
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 30Sunan Ibn Majah 3690Musnad Ahmad 21483Musnad Ahmad 21515al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15876Musnad al-Bazzar 3930
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 31 AH, or: 32 AHأَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّالصحابيرأيت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH, and: 100 AHالْمَعْرُورِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AHجَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظهنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآنحدثنا
- 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
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Commentaries
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