Sunan Abi Dawud 5211
Regarding shaking hands
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حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍ أَخْبَرَنَا هُشَيْمٌ عَنْ أَبِي بَلْجٍ عَنْ زَيْدٍ أَبِي الْحَكَمِ الْعَنَزِيِّ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
إِذَا الْتَقَى الْمُسْلِمَانِ فَتَصَافَحَا وَحَمِدَا اللَّهَ ﷻ وَاسْتَغْفَرَاهُ غُفِرَ لَهُمَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿAwn
- Hushaym
- Abū Balj
- Zayd Abū al-Ḥakam al-ʿAnazī
- al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said: If two Muslims meet, shake hands, praise Allah, and ask Him for forgiveness, they will be forgiven.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | 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.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
في إسناده اضطراب
machine translationThere is inconsistency (iḍṭirāb) in its chain of narration.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5196 - Shuayb al-Arnaut
صحيح لغيره دون قوله: "وحمدا الله عز وجل"
in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 5211
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 6268Sunan Abi Dawud 4261Musnad Ahmad 18548Musnad Ahmad 18594Sahih Ibn Hibban 170Sahih Ibn Hibban 172al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20825al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20826Musnad al-Bazzar 6466Musnad Abi Ya'la 4139
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AHالْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابيعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)زَيْدٍ ج٤ / ص٥٢١أَبِي الْحَكَمِ الْعَنَزِيِّمقبولعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. between 121 and 130 AHأَبِي بَلْجٍصدوق ربما أخطأعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AHهُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفيأنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 225 AH, in Ibn ʿAsākir's book: the year 224 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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