Sahih al-Bukhari 2559
If somebody beats a slave, he should avoid his face.
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ قَالَ وَأَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ فُلاَنٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ هَمَّامٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
«إِذَا قَاتَلَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيَجْتَنِبِ الْوَجْهَ۔»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- [Chain 1] Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydullāh
- Ibn and Hb
- Mālik b. Anas
- Ibn Fulān
- Saʿīd al-Maqburī
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ [Chain 2] ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Maʿmar
- Hammām
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said, "If somebody fights (or beats somebody) then he should avoid the face."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3525وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا قَاتَلَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيَجْتَنِبِ الْوَجْهَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ آدَمَ عَلَى صُورَتِهِ»
- Shahih Muslim 2612eإِذَا قَاتَلَ أَحَدُكُمْ أَخَاهُ فَلْيَجْتَنِبِ الْوَجْهَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ آدَمَ عَلَى صُورَتِهِ
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2612bSunan Abi Dawud 4493Musnad al-Bazzar 8676Musnad al-Bazzar 8677
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)d. 131 AH, or: 132 AHهَمَّامٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ); he compiled the Musnadd. before 220 AH, or 229 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة حافظ ، جمع المسندحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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