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Sahih al-Bukhari 6846

Whoever saw his wife with another man and killed him

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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ عَنْ وَرَّادٍ كَاتِبِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ

قَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ لَوْ رَأَيْتُ رَجُلاً مَعَ امْرَأَتِي لَضَرَبْتُهُ بِالسَّيْفِ غَيْرَ مُصْفَحٍ فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ أَتَعْجَبُونَ مِنْ غَيْرَةِ سَعْدٍ لأَنَا أَغْيَرُ مِنْهُ وَاللَّهُ أَغْيَرُ مِنِّي

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Mūsá
  2. Abū ʿAwānah
  3. ʿAbd al-Malik
  4. And Rrād Kātib al-Mughīrah
  5. al-Mughīrah

Saʿd bin Ubada said, "If I found a man with my wife, I would kill him with the sharp side of my sword." When the Prophet ﷺ heard that he said, "Do you wonder at Saʿd's sense of ghira (self-respect)? Verily, I have more sense of ghira than Saʿd, and Allah has more sense of ghira than I."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 3309وَعَنِ الْمُغِيرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ: لَوْ رَأَيْتُ رَجُلًا مَعَ امْرَأَتِي لَضَرَبْتُهُ بِالسَّيْفِ غَيْرَ مُصْفِحٍ فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: «أَتَعْجَبُونَ مِنْ غَيْرَةِ س
  • Shahih al-Bukhari 7416قَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ لَوْ رَأَيْتُ رَجُلاً مَعَ امْرَأَتِي لَضَرَبْتُهُ بِالسَّيْفِ غَيْرَ مُصْفَحٍ فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ تَعْجَبُونَ مِنْ غَيْرَةِ سَعْدٍ وَاللَّهِ لأَنَا أَغْيَرُ مِنْهُ وَاللَّهُ أَغْيَرُ مِنِّي

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before al-Ḥudaybiyyah.d. 49 AH, or: 50 AH, and al-Khaṭīb reported consensus on that, or: 56 AH, in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl: some said 36 AH, 58 AH, and both are errors
    المُغِيرَة بن شُعْبَةصحابي مشهور ، أسلم قبل الحديبية
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 and 90 AH
    وَرَّادٍ كَاتِبِ الْمُغِيرَةِثقة
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), eloquent, a scholar; his memory changed and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH or 136 AH
    عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِثقة , فصيح عالم ، تغير حفظه وربما دلس
    حدثنا
  4. trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AH
    أَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعة
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 223 AH, or 226 AH
    مُوسَىثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  6. 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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