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Sunan Ibn Majah 2470

Pollinating Palm Trees

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ مُوسَى بْنَ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

مَرَرْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي نَخْلٍ فَرَأَى قَوْمًا يُلَقِّحُونَ النَّخْلَ فَقَالَ مَا يَصْنَعُ هَؤُلاَءِ قَالُوا يَأْخُذُونَ مِنَ الذَّكَرِ فَيَجْعَلُونَهُ فِي الأُنْثَى قَالَ مَا أَظُنُّ ذَاكَ يُغْنِي شَيْئًا فَبَلَغَهُمْ فَتَرَكُوهُ وَنَزَلُوا عَنْهَا فَبَلَغَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّمَا هُوَ ظَنٌّ إِنْ كَانَ يُغْنِي شَيْئًا فَاصْنَعُوهُ فَإِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ مِثْلُكُمْ وَإِنَّ الظَّنَّ يُخْطِئُ وَيُصِيبُ وَلَكِنْ مَا قُلْتُ لَكُمْ قَالَ اللَّهُ فَلَنْ أَكْذِبَ عَلَى اللَّهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
  2. ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá
  3. Isrāʾīl
  4. Simāk
  5. Mūsá b. Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydullāh Yuḥaddith
  6. his father

“I passed by some palm trees with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he saw some people pollinating the trees. He said: 'What are these people doing?' They said: 'They are taking something from the male part (of the plant) and putting it in the female part.' He said: 'I do not think that this will do any good.' News of that reached them, so they stopped doing it, and their yield declined. News of that reached the Prophet ﷺ and he said: 'That was only my thought. If it will do any good, then do it. I am only a human being like you, and what I think may be right or wrong. But When I tell you: “Allah (SWT) says,” I will never tell lies about Allah (SWT).' ”

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Ibn Hibban 22al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1032Musnad al-Bazzar 10124Musnad al-Bazzar 4733Musnad al-Bazzar 5040

Narrators

  1. Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUthmān al-Fayyāḍ
    One of the Ten (promised Paradise)d. 36 AH
    طَلْحَةُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ الْفَيَّاضُاحد العشرة
    يحدث عن
  2. Mūsá b. Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Taymī
    trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 106 AH
    مُوسَى بْنَ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة جليل
    سمع
  3. Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī
    Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
    سِمَاكٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
    عن
  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
    إِسْرَائِيلَثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
    عن
  5. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Mūsā
    Trustworthy (thiqah); he leaned towards Shiism (kāna yatashayyaʿ).d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AH
    عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة ، كان يتشيع
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  6. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 233 AH, or shortly before or shortly after it, also said: 235 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  7. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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