Sunan ad-Darimi 3203
✧ The Sale of Allegiance
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حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي مَعْشَرٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ
«الْوَلَاءُ لُحْمَةٌ كَلُحْمَةِ النَّسَبِ لَا يُبَاعُ وَلَا يُوهَبُ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Jaʿfar b. ʿAwn
- Saʿīd
- Abū Maʿshar
- Ibrāhīm
- ʿAbdullāh
✧ Allegiance is a tie like the tie of kinship; it is not to be sold nor given as a gift.
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Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةقال
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AHإِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيراعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 110 AH or 117 AH or 119 AH, also said: 120 AHأَبِي مَعْشَرٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AHسَعِيدٍثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 206 AH, or 207 AHجَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), meticulous (mutqin)d. 254 AH, or 255 AH, also said: 250 AHالدارميثقة ، فاضل ، متقن
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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