al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2711

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “There is no marriage except with a guardian.” All these chains of transmission are authentic, and we have a high chain through Isra'il. The leading earlier imams, who in their narrations descend through Isra'il, such as 'Abd al-Rahman b. Mahdi, Waki', Yahya b. Adam, Yahya b. Zakariyya b. Abi Za'idah, and others, have connected it, and they have ruled this hadith to be authentic. I heard Abu Nasr Ahmad b. Sahl al-Faqih in Bukhara say: I heard Salih b. Muhammad b. Habib al-Hafiz say: I heard 'Ali b. 'Abd Allah al-Madini say: I heard 'Abd al-Rahman b. Mahdi say: “Isra'il used to memorize the hadith of Abu Ishaq as he memorized the Surah al-Hamd.” I heard Abu al-Hasan b. Mansur say: I heard Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Ishaq say: I heard Abu Musa say: “'Abd al-Rahman b. Mahdi used to affirm the hadith of Isra'il from Abu Ishaq, meaning regarding marriage without a guardian.” Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah al-Shaybani narrated to me: Ahmad b. Muhammad b. al-Hasan narrated to us: Hatim b. Yunus al-Jurjani narrated to us: He said: I said to Abu al-Walid al-Tayalisi: What do you say about marriage without a guardian? He said: “It is not permissible.” I said: What is the proof for that? He said: Qays b. al-Rabi' narrated to us, from Abu Ishaq, from Abu Burdah, from his father. I said: But al-Thawri and Shu'bah narrate it as mursal. He said: Isra'il has followed Qays. Muhammad b. Salih b. Hani' narrated to me: Muhammad b. al-Mundhir b. Sa'id narrated to us: Ishaq b. Ibrahim b. Jabalah narrated to us: I heard 'Ali b. al-Madini say: The hadith of Isra'il is authentic regarding “There is no marriage except with a guardian.” I heard Abu al-Hasan b. Mansur say: I heard Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Ishaq al-Imam say: I asked Muhammad b. Yahya about this chapter, and he said: The hadith of Isra'il is authentic according to me. I said to him: Sharik also narrated it. He said: Who narrated it? I said: 'Ali b. Hujr narrated it to us, and I mentioned to him the hadith of Yunus from Abu Ishaq, and I said to him: Shu'bah and al-Thawri narrated it from Abu Ishaq, from Abu Burdah, from the Prophet ﷺ. He said: Yes, “They narrated it like that, but they used to narrate the hadith and send it as mursal until it was said to them: From whom? Then they would give its chain.” I heard Abu al-Hasan Ahmad b. Muhammad al-'Anazi say: I heard 'Uthman b. Sa'id al-Darimi say: I said to Yahya b. Ma'in: Is Yunus b. Abi Ishaq dearer to you, or his son Isra'il b. Yunus? He said: “Both are trustworthy.” Sahih.

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

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• al-Bukhari

  الزيادة من الثقة مقبولة وإسرائيل ثقة فإن كان شعبة والثوري أرسلاه فإن ذلك لا يضر الحديث

  machine translationAn addition from a trustworthy narrator (thiqah) is accepted, and Isrāʾīl is trustworthy (thiqah). So if Shuʿbah and al-Thawrī transmitted it as a mursal report, that does not harm the hadith. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 2726
• ابن عدي

  من الأئمة من لم يثبت في هذا الباب إلا حديث إسرائيل هذا

  machine translationAmong the imams there are some who did not consider anything established on this subject except this hadith of Isrāʾīl. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 2726
• al-Bukhari

  وروى البيهقي في سننه هذا الحديث من الطرق المذكورة ثم نقل عن البخاري أنه سئل عن حديث إسرائيل عن أبي إسحاق عن أبي بردة عن أبيه مرفوعا لا نكاح إلا بولي فقال الزيادة من الثقة مقبولة وإسرائيل بن يونس ثقة وإن كان شعبة والثوري أرسلاه فإن ذلك لا يضر الحديث

  machine translationAl-Bayhaqī narrated this hadith in his Sunan through the aforementioned routes, then he reported from al-Bukhārī that he was asked about the hadith of Isrāʾīl, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Burdah, from his father, as a raised report (marfūʿ): "There is no marriage without a guardian." He said: An addition from a trustworthy narrator is accepted, and Isrāʾīl b. Yūnus is trustworthy. Even if Shuʿbah and al-Thawrī transmitted it as a mursal report, that does not harm the hadith. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 2726
• al-Tirmidhi

  قال البيهقي وقال الترمذي في علله حديث أبي بردة عن أبي موسى عندي والله أصح وإن كان سفيان الثوري وشعبة لا يذكران فيه عن أبي موسى لأنه قد ذكر في حديث شعبة أن سماعهما جميعا في وقت واحد وهؤلاء الذين رووا عن أبي إسحاق عن أبي بردة عن أبي موسى سمعوا في أوقات مختلفة

  machine translationAl-Bayhaqī said: Al-Tirmidhī said in his ʿIlal: The hadith of Abū Burdah, from Abū Mūsā, is in my view, by God, more sound (aṣaḥḥ), even though Sufyān al-Thawrī and Shuʿbah do not mention "from Abū Mūsā" in it, because it is stated in the hadith of Shuʿbah that both of them heard it at one time, whereas those who narrated from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Burdah, from Abū Mūsā heard it at different times. Report a problem

  in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 2726

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 2083Sunan Abi Dawud 2084Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1102Sunan Ibn Majah 1879

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   a well-known Companiond. 42 AH, or 44 AH, or 50 AH, or 52 AH, or 53 AH, also said 49 AH, also said 51 AH
   أَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُّصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Burdah b. Abī Mūsá al-Ashʿarī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 107 AH
   أَبِي بُرْدَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
4. 4
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   أنبأ
5. 5
   al-Naḍr b. Shumayl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 203 AH, or: 204 AH, also said: 202 AH
   النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Al-Faḍl b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār

   d. 288 AH
   الْفَضْلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Maḥbūbī

   d. 346 AH
   أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْمَحْبُوبِيُّ
   حدثنا
8. 8
   al-Ḥākim

   d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
   الحاكم

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