Sunan Abi Dawud 5239

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone cuts the lote-tree, Allah brings him headlong into Hell. Abu Dawud was asked about the meaning of this tradition. He said: This is a brief tradition. It means that if anyone cuts uselessly, unjustly and without any right a lote-tree under the shade of which travellers and beasts take shelter, Allah will bring him into Hell headlong.

Notes

• سُئِلَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ عَنْ مَعْنَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فَقَالَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ مُخْتَصَرٌ يَعْنِي مَنْ قَطَعَ سِدْرَةً فِي فَلاَةٍ يَسْتَظِلُّ بِهَا ابْنُ السَّبِيلِ وَالْبَهَائِمُ عَبَثًا وَظُلْمًا بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ يَكُونُ لَهُ فِيهَا صَوَّبَ اللَّهُ رَأْسَهُ فِي النَّارِ

  machine translationAbū Dāwūd was asked about the meaning of this hadith, and he said: This hadith is abridged. It means: whoever cuts down a lote tree (sidrah) in an open desert, in which the wayfarer and the animals take shade, wantonly and unjustly, without having any right to it, Allah will plunge his head into the Fire. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله ثقات

  machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 5224
• العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

  الحديث مضطرب الرواية

  machine translationThe hadith is inconsistent (muḍṭarib) in its narration. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 5224
• Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī

  فيه عبد الله الخثعمي

  machine translationIn it is ʿAbdullāh al-Khathʿamī. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 5224

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 2970وَعَن عبد الله بن جحش قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ قَطَعَ سِدْرَةً صَوَّبَ اللَّهُ رَأْسَهُ فِي النَّارِ». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَقَالَ: هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ مُخْتَصَرٌ يَعْنِي: مَنْ قَطَعَ سِدْرَةً فِي

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2233jSunan Abi Dawud 5255Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19834Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 19835al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 11882al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 11885al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 11886

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥubshī al-Khathʿamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ حُبْشِيٍّ الْخَثْعَمِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. Muḥammad b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 111 AH and 120 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUthmān b. Abī Sulaymān al-Nawfalī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 121 AH and 130 AH
   عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Ibn Jurayj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AH
   ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسل
   عن
5. 5
   Abū Usāmah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt); he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), and toward the end of his life he used to narrate from the books of others.d. 200 AH, or 201 AH
   أَبُو أُسَامَةَثقة ثبت ، ربما دلس ، وكان بآخره يحدث من كتب غيره.
   أنا
6. 6
   Naṣr b. ʿAlī

   Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt); he was asked to take the judgeship (qaḍāʾ) but declinedd. 250 AH, also said: 251 AH
   نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة ثبت ، طلب للقضاء فامتنع
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Also in

Mishkat al-Masabih 2970