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Sunan Ibn Majah 2624

If A Person's Relative Is Killed, He Has the Choice of three Things.

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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ حَدَّثَنَا الأَوْزَاعِيُّ حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنْ قُتِلَ لَهُ قَتِيلٌ فَهُوَ بِخَيْرِ النَّظَرَيْنِ إِمَّا أَنْ يَقْتُلَ وَإِمَّا أَنْ يُفْدَى

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī
  2. al-Walīd
  3. al-Awzāʿī
  4. Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
  5. Abū Salamah
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“If a person's relative is killed, he has the choice of two things: He may either have the killer killed, or he may demand the blood money.”

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6880Sahih Muslim 1355aMusnad Ahmad 7242Sunan al-Daraqutni 3149Sunan al-Daraqutni 3150al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5832

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
    trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
    أَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
    عن
  3. Yaḥyá b. Abī Kathīr
    trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
    حدثني
  4. Abū ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī
    trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AH
    الْأَوْزَاعِيُّثقة جليل
    حدثنا
  5. al-Walīd b. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AH
    الْوَلِيدُثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسوية
    حدثنا
  6. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ibrāhīm
    trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 245 AH
    عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الدِّمَشْقِيُّثقة حافظ متقن
    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

شرح مشكل الآثار
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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