al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16596
✧ Compendium of Chapters on the Ruling Concerning the Sorcerer
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو سَعْدٍ: أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْخَلِيلِ الْمَالِينِيُّ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو أَحْمَدَ بْنُ عَدِيٍّ الْحَافِظُ، ثَنَا عِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُوسَى، ثَنَا أَبُو مَعْمَرٍ، ثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنِ الْحَسَنِ، عَنْ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
" حَدُّ السَّاحِرِ ضَرْبَةٌ بِالسَّيْفِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Saʿd Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Khalīl al-Mālīnī Anbaʾ Abū Aḥmad b. ʿAdī al-Ḥāfiẓ
- ʿImrān b. Mūsá
- Abū Maʿmar
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- Ismāʿīl b. Muslim
- al-Ḥasan
- Jundub
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
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"The prescribed punishment for the sorcerer is a strike with the sword.
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
حديث ليس بالقوي انفرد به إسماعيل بن مسلم عن الحسن عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم هكذا رواه ابن عيينة عن إسماعيل بن مسلم عن الحسن مرسلا ومنهم من يجعله عن الحسن عن جندب
machine translationA hadith that is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī). Ismāʿīl b. Muslim was alone in transmitting it from al-Ḥasan from the Prophet ﷺ. Likewise Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it from Ismāʿīl b. Muslim from al-Ḥasan as a mursal report, and some of them make it from al-Ḥasan from Jundab.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 16596
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- His status as a Companion is disputed (mukhtalaf fī ṣuḥbatihi)d. killed at Ṣiffīn, or when ten years of Muʿāwiyah's caliphate had passedجُنْدُبُ الْخَيْرِ الْغَامِدِيُّمختلف في صحبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AHالْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلسعن
- he was a jurist, weak in hadith (ḍaʿīf al-ḥadīth)إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍكان فقيها ، ضعيف الحديثعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهحدثنا
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 236 AHأَبُو مَعْمَرٍثقة مأمونحدثنا
- d. 305 AHعِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُوسَىحدثنا
- d. 365 AHأَبُو أَحْمَدَ بْنُ عَدِيٍّ الْحَافِظُأنبأ
- d. 412 AHأَبُو سَعْدٍ : أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْخَلِيلِ الْمَالِينِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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