Sunan Abi Dawud 788
Those Who Recited It Out Loud
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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ وَابْنُ السَّرْحِ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ قُتَيْبَةُ فِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لاَ يَعْرِفُ فَصْلَ السُّورَةِ حَتَّى تُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْهِ { بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ }
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd and ʾAḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Marwazī and Ibn al-Sarḥ
- Sufyān
- ʿAmr
- Saʿīd b. Jubayr
- Qutaybah Fīh
- Ibn ʿAbbās
The prophet ﷺ did not distinguish between the two surahs until the words “In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the merciful” was revealed to him. These are the words of Ibn al-sarh.
Notes
وَهَذَا لَفْظُ ابْنِ السَّرْحِ
machine translationThis is the wording of Ibn al-Sarḥ.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 788 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Soundin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 788 | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رواه البزار بإسنادين ورجال أحدهما رجال الصحيح
machine translationAl-Bazzār narrated it with two chains of transmission, and the narrators of one of them are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 785 - ابن الملقن
هذا الحديث صحيح
machine translationThis hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 785 - Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 785 - Abū Daʾūd
رواه أبو داود في المراسيل وقال المرسل أصح
machine translationAbū Dāwūd narrated it in al-Marāsīl and said: the mursal (mursal) version is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 785
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- al-Dhahabi
أما هذا فثابت
machine translationAs for this one, it is established (thābit).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 785 - Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رواه البزار بإسنادين رجال أحدهما رجال الصحيح
machine translationAl-Bazzār narrated it with two chains of transmission, the narrators of one of which are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 785
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2218وَعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَا يَعْرِفُ فَصْلَ السُّورَةِ حَتَّى يَنْزِلَ عَلَيْهِ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
Other narrations of this report
al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5335al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5336al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 5356al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 911
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AHعَمْرٍوثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. end of 249 AH, or 250 AHوَابْنُ السَّرْحِثقةحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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