al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21002
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ، أَنْبَأَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ، ثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، ثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، ثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ - ؓ
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ رَأَى رَجُلًا يَتْبَعُ حَمَامَةً فَقَالَ: شَيْطَانٌ يَتْبَعُ شَيْطَانَةً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī Anbaʾ Muḥammad b. Bakr
- Abū Dāwud
- Mūsá b. Ismāʿīl
- Ḥammād
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmr
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah
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The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw a man following a pigeon, and he said: "A devil following a she-devil."
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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. 21002
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.حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 223 AH, or 226 AHمُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماءحدثنا
- d. 346 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍأنبأ
- d. 403 AHأَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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