Sunan Ibn Majah 2386

Translation

“The one who takes back his gift is like the dog that goes back to its vomit.”

Grades by grader

Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 3018وَعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْعَائِدُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْكَلْبِ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ لَيْسَ لَنَا مَثَلُ السوء». رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ
• Shahih al-Bukhari 6975الْعَائِدُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْكَلْبِ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ لَيْسَ لَنَا مَثَلُ السَّوْءِ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 10471Musnad Ahmad 2120Musnad Ahmad 5493Sahih Ibn Hibban 5123al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13498al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6502

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   عن
2. 2
   Zayd b. Aslam

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AH
   زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar al-ʿUmarī

   Weak (ḍaʿīf), devout (ʿābid)d. 171 AH, or 172 AH, or 173 AH
   الْعُمَرِيُّضعيف عابد
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Abī Ḥakīm

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. after 220 AH.
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَكِيمٍصدوق
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yūsuf al-ʿArʿarī

   unknown in condition (mastūr)
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ الْعَرْعَرِيُّمستور
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.