Sunan Abi Dawud 589
Who Has More Right To Be Imam
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمَعْنَى وَاحِدٌ عَنْ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي قِلاَبَةَ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ الْحُوَيْرِثِ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ لَهُ أَوْ لِصَاحِبٍ لَهُ
إِذَا حَضَرَتِ الصَّلاَةُ فَأَذِّنَا ثُمَّ أَقِيمَا ثُمَّ لْيَؤُمَّكُمَا أَكْبَرُكُمَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Musaddad
- Ismāʿīl [Chain 2] Musaddad
- Maslamah b. Muḥammad al-Maʿná Wāḥid
- Khālid
- Abū Qilābah
- Mālik b. al-Ḥūwayrith
- al-Nabī ﷺ
- Lah Aw Liṣāḥib Lah
When the time of prayer comes, call the Adhan, then call the iqamah, then the one who is oldest of you should act as your imam. The version narrated by Maslamah goes: He said: On that day we were almost equal in knowledge. The version narrated by Isma’il says: Khalid said: I said to Abu Qilabah: where is the Qur’an(i.e. why did the Prophet ﷺ not say: The one who knows the Qur’an most should act as imam)? He replied: Both of them were equal in the knowledge of the Qur’an.
Notes
وَفِي حَدِيثِ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ وَكُنَّا يَوْمَئِذٍ مُتَقَارِبَيْنِ فِي الْعِلْمِ وَقَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ قَالَ خَالِدٌ قُلْتُ لأَبِي قِلاَبَةَ فَأَيْنَ الْقُرْآنُ قَالَ إِنَّهُمَا كَانَا مُتَقَارِبَيْنِ
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih Bukhari (630) Sahih Muslim (674) | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Albani
مدرج
machine translationInterpolated (mudraj).
in ضعيف سنن أبي داود, p. 589 - al-Albani
صحيح والرواية مدرجة وقول أبي قلابة مرسل
in صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 589
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 674eJami' at-Tirmidhi 205Sunan an-Nasa'i 781Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 462Sunan al-Daraqutni 1068al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 858
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. in al-Taqrīb: 74 AH, and in al-Iṣābah: 64 AH, and miswritten in al-Istīʿāb: 94 AHمَالِك بْن الحُوَيْرِث اللَّيْثِيصحابيعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, who often narrated mursal reports (kathīr al-irsāl)d. 104 AH, or 105 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AHأَبِي قِلَابَةَثقة فاضل ، كثير الإرسالعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he narrates with omission of the intermediary (yursil).d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, or more.خَالِدٍثقة يرسل.عن
- weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)مَسْلَمَةُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ -لين الحديثحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة 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
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
شرح مشكل الآثار
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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