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Sunan Abi Dawud 5239

Regarding cutting down lote-trees

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حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حُبْشِيٍّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنْ قَطَعَ سِدْرَةً صَوَّبَ اللَّهُ رَأْسَهُ فِي النَّارِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Naṣr b. ʿAlī
  2. Abū Usāmah
  3. Ibn Jurayj
  4. ʿUthmān b. Abū Sulaymān
  5. Saʿīd b. Muḥammad b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim
  6. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥubshī
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

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.

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al-AlbaniSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Shuayb al-ArnautHasan Lighairihifawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiHasanfawazahmed0

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

Narrators

  1. نصر بن علي الأزدي
  2. حماد بن أسامة القرشي
  3. ابن جريج المكي
  4. عثمان بن أبي سليمان القرشي
  5. سعيد بن محمد النوفلي
  6. عبد الله بن حبشي الخثعمي

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