Sahih Ibn Hibban 5637
✧ Killing Animals
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أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ صَيْفِيٍّ مَوْلَى ابْنِ أَفْلَحَ عَنْ أَبِي السَّائِبِ مَوْلَى هِشَامِ بْنِ زُهْرَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ فِي بَيْتِهِ قَالَ فَوَجَدْتُهُ يُصَلِّي فَجَلَسْتُ أَنْتَظِرُهُ حَتَّى قَضَى صَلَاتَهُ فَسَمِعْتُ تَحْرِيكًا تَحْتَ السَّرِيرِ فِي بَيْتِهِ فَإِذَا حَيَّةٌ فَقُمْتُ لِأَقْتُلَهَا فَأَشَارَ إِلَيَّ أَنِ اجْلِسْ فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ أَشَارَ إِلَى بَيْتٍ فِي الدَّارِ وَقَالَ تَرَى هَذَا الْبَيْتَ؟ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ إِنَّهُ كَانَ فِيهِ فَتًى مِنَّا حَدِيثَ عَهْدٍ بِعُرْسٍ فَخَرَجْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِلَى الْخَنْدَقِ فَكَانَ ذَلِكَ الْفَتَى يَسْتَأْذِنُهُ بِأَنْصَافِ النَّهَارِ وَيَرْجِعُ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ قَالَ فَاسْتَأْذَنَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَوْمًا فَقَالَ لَهُ «خُذْ سِلَاحَكَ فَإِنِّي أَخْشَى عَلَيْكَ» فَأَخَذَ سِلَاحَهُ ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِامْرَأَتِهِ بَيْنَ الْبَابَيْنِ فَهَيَّأَ لَهَا الرُّمْحَ لِيَطْعَنَهَا بِهِ وَأَصَابَتْهُ الْغَيْرَةُ فَقَالَتِ اكْفُفْ عَنْكَ رُمْحَكَ حَتَّى تَرَى مَا فِي بَيْتِكَ فَدَخَلَ فَإِذَا حَيَّةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ مُنْطَوِيَةٌ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ فَأَهْوَى إِلَيْهَا فَانْتَظَمَهَا فِيهِ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ بِهِ فَرَكَزَهُ فِي الدَّارِ فَاضْطَرَبَتِ الْحَيَّةُ فِي رَأْسِ الرُّمْحِ وَخَرَّ الْفَتَى صَرِيعًا فَمَا يُدْرَى أَيُّهُمَا كَانَ أَسْرَعَ مَوْتًا الْفَتَى أَمِ الْحَيَّةُ قَالَ فَجِئْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَذَكَرْنَا ذَلِكَ لَهُ وَقُلْنَا ادْعُ اللَّهَ أَنْ يُحْيِيَهُ فَقَالَ «اسْتَغْفِرُوا لِصَاحِبِكُمْ» ثُمَّ قَالَ «إِنَّ بِالْمَدِينَةِ جِنًّا قَدْ أَسْلَمُوا فَإِنْ رَأَيْتُمْ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا فَآذِنُوهُ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ فَإِنْ بَدَا لَكُمْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَاقْتُلُوهُ فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ شَيْطَانٌ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar b. Saʿīd b. Sinān
- Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr
- Mālik
- Ṣayfī a freed slave of Ibn Aflaḥ
- Abū al-Sāʾib a freed slave of Hishām b. Zuhrah
✧ I entered upon Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī ؓ in his house. He said: I found him praying, so I sat waiting for him until he finished his prayer. Then I heard movement under the bed in his house, and it was a snake. I got up to kill it, but he gestured to me to sit down. When he finished, he pointed to a room in the house and said, “Do you see this room?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “There was a young man among us who had recently married, so we went out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to the trench. That young man used to ask his permission at midday and return to his wife. One day he asked the Prophet ﷺ for permission, and he said to him, ‘Take your weapon, for I fear for you from the Qurayẓah.' So he took his weapon and went, and there was his wife standing between the two doors. He aimed his spear at her to thrust it because of jealousy, but she said, ‘Hold back your spear until you see what is in your house.' He entered and found a huge snake coiled on his bed. He struck at it and pierced it with the spear, then went out and fixed the spear in the courtyard, and the snake writhed on the spearhead while the young man fell dead. We did not know which of them died first, the young man or the snake. We went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and mentioned that to him, saying, ‘Call upon Allah to bring him back to life.' He said, ‘Ask forgiveness for your companion.' Then he said, ‘There are jinn in Madinah who have accepted Islam, so if you see any of them, give it notice for three days. If it appears to you after that, then kill it, for it is only a devil.'”
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
روى هذا الحديث مالك وعبيد الله بن عمر عن صيفي عن أبي السائب عن أبي سعيد عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ونرى أن هذا الرجل الذي روى عنه أسماء بن عبيد هو صيفي وليس للسائب بن يزيد معنى
machine translationMālik and ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar narrated this hadith from Ṣayfī, from Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Saʿīd, from the Prophet ﷺ. We hold that this man from whom Asmāʾ b. ʿUbayd narrated is Ṣayfī, and that al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd has no place in it.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 5642 - Dāraquṭnī
حدث به عبيد الله بن عمر واختلف عنه فرواه عبدة بن سليمان عن عبيد الله بن عمر عن العلاء عن أبيه عن أبي سعيد حدث به الحسن بن سهل الحناط عن عبدة هكذا وخالفه عبد الله بن نمير فرواه عن عبيد الله بن عمر عن صيفي عن أبي سعيد الخدري وصيفي لم يسمعه من أبي سعيد ورواه ابن عيينة عن ابن عجلان فقال عن صيفي مولى أبي السائب عن أبي سعيد وهو وهم والصواب ما رواه يحيى بن سعيد القطان والليث بن سعد عن ابن عجلان عن صيفي عن أبي السائب عن أبي سعيد وكذلك رواه مالك بن أنس عن صيفي عن أبي السائب عن أبي سعيد وهو الصواب
machine translationʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar related it, and there is disagreement about him. ʿAbdah b. Sulaymān narrated it from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar, from al-ʿAlāʾ, from his father, from Abū Saʿīd; al-Ḥasan b. Sahl al-Ḥannāṭ related it from ʿAbdah in this way. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr differed from him and narrated it from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar, from Ṣayfī, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, but Ṣayfī did not hear it from Abū Saʿīd. Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it from Ibn ʿAjlān and said: from Ṣayfī, the freed slave of Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Saʿīd, and that is an error (wahm). The correct version is what Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān and al-Layth b. Saʿd narrated from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Ṣayfī, from Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Saʿīd. Likewise Mālik b. Anas narrated it from Ṣayfī, from Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Saʿīd, and that is the correct one.
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 5642
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 5257Sunan Abi Dawud 5258Sunan Abi Dawud 5259
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AHأَبِي السَّائِبِ مَوْلَى هِشَامِ بْنِ زُهْرَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AHصَيْفِيٍّ مَوْلَى ابْنِ أَفْلَحَثقةعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتينعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 242 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍصدوقأخبرنا
- d. between 301 and 310 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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