al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19822
✧ What has come regarding playing with pigeons
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ، أَنْبَأَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُ، ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الضَّبِّيُّ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ، ثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ:
رَأَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ رَجُلًا يَتْبَعُ حَمَامَةً، فَقَالَ: شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً
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- Dāraquṭnī
والمرسل أصح
machine translationThe mursal version (the report narrated without the Companion in the chain) is more authentic (aṣaḥḥ).
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 19822 - Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī
حديث حماد أصح
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 19822
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 4940Sunan Ibn Majah 3764Sunan Ibn Majah 3765
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 144 AH, or 145 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍوصدوق له أوهامعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 226 AH, or 227 AH, also said: 229 AHأَبُو الْوَلِيدِثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. between 281 and 290 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الضَّبِّيُّحدثنا
- d. around 350 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُأنبأ
- d. 415 AHأَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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