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Sahih al-Bukhari 6712

The Sa' of al-Madina, and the Mudd of the Prophet ﷺ

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حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ الْمُزَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْجُعَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنِ السَّائِبِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ

كَانَ الصَّاعُ عَلَى عَهْدِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مُدًّا وَثُلُثًا بِمُدِّكُمُ الْيَوْمَ فَزِيدَ فِيهِ فِي زَمَنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah
  2. al-Qāsim b. Mālik al-Muzanī
  3. al-Juʿayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  4. al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd

As-Sa'ib bin Yazid said, "The Sa' at the time of the Prophet ﷺ was equal to one Mudd plus one-third of a Mudd of your time, and then it was increased in the time of Caliph ʿUmar bin ʿAbdul ʿAziz."

Notes

  • فَزِيدَ فِيهِ فِي زَمَنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ

    machine translationSo it was added to during the time of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

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  1. Young Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 82 AH. Also said: after the nineties; it is said: 91 AH; also said: 94 AH; Ibn Abī Dāwūd said: he was the last of the Companions to die in Medina, Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān erred and listed him among those killed on the day of al-Ḥarrah, al-Wāqidī said: 91 AH; others said: 86 AH. Also said: 88 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 82 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in the section 90 AH to 100 AH, in «Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ's book»: 86 AH, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: 97 AH, in «Tārīkh Ibn Abī Khaythamah al-Awsaṭ»: 80 AH
    السَّائِب بن يَزِيد الكِنْدِيّصحابي صغير
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  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 144 AH
    الْجُعَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة
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  3. truthful (ṣadūq), with some softness (layyin)d. after 190 AH
    الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ الْمُزَنِيُّصدوق فيه لين
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  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
    عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
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  5. 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 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل 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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