Sunan Abi Dawud 5251
Regarding killing snakes
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنْ مُوسَى الطَّحَّانِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ سَابِطٍ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ
أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّا نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَكْنِسَ زَمْزَمَ وَإِنَّ فِيهَا مِنْ هَذِهِ الْجِنَّانِ يَعْنِي الْحَيَّاتِ الصِّغَارَ فَأَمَرَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ بِقَتْلِهِنَّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Marwān b. Muʿāwiyah
- Mūsá al-Ṭaḥḥān
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Sābiṭ
- al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
Al-Abbas said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: We wish to sweep out Zamzam, but in it there are some of these Jinnan, meaning small snakes; so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered that they should be killed.
Grades by grader
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
|---|---|---|
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
الأظهر أنه مرسل
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5236 - al-Albani
صحيح إن كان ابن سابط سمع من العباس
in صحيح أبي داود, p. 5251 - Shuayb al-Arnaut
رجاله ثقات
machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 5251
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 4141وَعَن العبَّاسِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَكْنُسَ زَمْزَمَ وَإِنَّ فِيهَا مِنْ هَذِهِ الْجِنَّانِ يَعْنِي الْحَيَّاتِ الصِّغَارِ فَأَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِقَتْلِ
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 32 AH, or: 33 AH, or: 34 AHالعَبَّاس بن عَبْد المُطَّلِب عَمّ رَسُول اللهصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), frequently narrates mursald. 118 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ سَابِطٍثقة ، كثير الإرسالنا
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. between 141 and 150 AHمُوسَى الطَّحَّانِلا بأس بهعن
- Trustworthy and a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ), though he used to practice concealment (tadlīs) of the names of his teachersd. 193 AHمَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَثقة حافظ ، وكان يدلس أسماء الشيوخحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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