Sunan Abi Dawud 547
The Severity Of Not Attending The Congregational Prayer
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا زَائِدَةُ حَدَّثَنَا السَّائِبُ بْنُ حُبَيْشٍ عَنْ مَعْدَانَ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ
مَا مِنْ ثَلاَثَةٍ فِي قَرْيَةٍ وَلاَ بَدْوٍ لاَ تُقَامُ فِيهِمُ الصَّلاَةُ إِلاَّ قَدِ اسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ الشَّيْطَانُ فَعَلَيْكَ بِالْجَمَاعَةِ فَإِنَّمَا يَأْكُلُ الذِّئْبُ الْقَاصِيَةَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Yūnus
- Zāʾidah
- al-Sāʾib b. Ḥubaysh
- Maʿdān b. Abū Ṭalḥah al-Yaʿmurī
- Abū al-Dardāʾ
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: If there are three men in a village or in the desert among whom prayer is not offered (in congregation), the devil has got the mastery over them. So observe (prayer) in congregation), for the wolf eats only the straggling animal. Sa'ib said: By the word Jama'ah he meant saying prayer in company or in congregation.
Notes
قَالَ زَائِدَةُ قَالَ السَّائِبُ يَعْنِي بِالْجَمَاعَةِ الصَّلاَةَ فِي الْجَمَاعَةِ
machine translationZāʾidah said: al-Sāʾib said: By "the congregation" he means prayer in congregation.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyá b. Sharaf al-Nawawī | Sound Chainin سنن أبي داود, p. 544 | hadithunlocked |
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
سند لا بأس به
machine translationThe chain of narration is acceptable (lā baʾsa bihi).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 544
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 1067وَعَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا مِنْ ثَلَاثَةٍ فِي قَرْيَةٍ وَلَا بَدْوٍ لَا تُقَامُ فِيهِمُ الصَّلَاةُ إِلَّا قَدِ اسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ الشَّيْطَانُ فَعَلَيْكَ بِالْجَمَاعَةِ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 21711Musnad Ahmad 27514Sahih Ibn Hibban 2101Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1673al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 765al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 900
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 61 AH, and: 80 AHمَعْدَانَ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمَرِيِّثقةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)السَّائِبُ بْنُ حُبَيْشٍمقبولحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AHزَائِدَةُثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 227 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَثقة 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
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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