Sunan Abi Dawud 5269

Translation

When a physician consulted the Prophet ﷺ about putting frogs in medicine, he forbade him to kill them.

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  هو أقوى ما ورد في الضفدع وسعيد بن خالد هو القارظي ضعفه النسائي ووثقه ابن حبان وقال الدارقطني مدني يحتج به

  machine translationThis is the strongest report that has come regarding the frog. Saʿīd b. Khālid is al-Qāriẓī; al-Nasāʾī considered him weak (ḍaʿīf), Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy (thiqah), and al-Dāraquṭnī said: "A Madīnan, who may be used as evidence." Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 5254
• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  هو أقوى ما ورد في النهي

  machine translationThis is the strongest report that has come regarding the prohibition. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 5254

Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 1345{ أَنَّ طَبِيباً سَأَلَ رَسُولَ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم - - صلى الله عليه وسلم -عَنْ اَلضِّفْدَعِ يَجْعَلُهَا فِي دَوَاءٍ, فَنَهَى عَنْ قَتْلِهَا }
• Sunan Abu Dawud 3871أَنَّ طَبِيبًا سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَنْ ضِفْدَعٍ يَجْعَلُهَا فِي دَوَاءٍ فَنَهَاهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ عَنْ قَتْلِهَا
• Misykatul Mashabih 4545وَعَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ: إِنَّ طَبِيبًا سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ ضِفْدَعٍ يَجْعَلُهَا فِي دَوَاءٍ فَنَهَاهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ قَتْلِهَا. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد

Other narrations of this report

Sunan ad-Darimi 2041al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5736al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3721al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19439Musnad al-Bazzar 5295

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿUthmān al-Qurashī shārib al-Dhahab

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 73 AH
   عَبْد الرَّحْمَن بْن عُثْمَان القُرَشِي شَارِب الذَّهَبصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib

   One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبار
   عن
3. 3
   Saʿīd b. Khālid

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. at the end of the reign of the Banū Umayyah
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍصدوق
   عن
4. 4
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Mughīrah

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir said, from Ibn Abī Fudayk: 158 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said, and others: 159 AH
   ابْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍثقة فقيه فاضل
   عن
5. 5
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   أنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Kathīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفه
   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

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.