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Sunan Ibn Majah 2690

Pardoning A Killer

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَتَلَ رَجُلٌ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَرُفِعَ ذَلِكَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَدَفَعَهُ إِلَى وَلِيِّ الْمَقْتُولِ فَقَالَ الْقَاتِلُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهِ مَا أَرَدْتُ قَتْلَهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِلْوَلِيِّ أَمَا إِنَّهُ إِنْ كَانَ صَادِقًا ثُمَّ قَتَلْتَهُ دَخَلْتَ النَّارَ قَالَ فَخَلَّى سَبِيلَهُ قَالَ وَكَانَ مَكْتُوفًا بِنِسْعَةٍ فَخَرَجَ يَجُرُّ نِسْعَتَهُ فَسُمِّيَ ذَا النِّسْعَةِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and ʿAlī b. Muḥammad
  2. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. Abū Ṣāliḥ
  5. Abū Hurayrah

“A man killed (another) during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and was referred to the Prophet ﷺ. He handed him over to the victim's next of kin, but the killer said: 'O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, by Allah I did not mean to kill him.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to the next of kin, 'If he is telling the truth and you kill him, you will go to Hell.' So he let him go. He had been tied with a rope, and he went out dragging his rope, so he became known as Dhan-Nis'ah (the one with the rope).

Notes

  • قَالَ فَخَلَّى سَبِيلَهُ. قَالَ وَكَانَ مَكْتُوفًا بِنِسْعَةٍ فَخَرَجَ يَجُرُّ نِسْعَتَهُ فَسُمِّيَ ذَا النِّسْعَةِ

    machine translationHe said: So he let him go. He said: He had been bound with a leather strap (nisʿah), so he went out dragging his strap, and he was named Dhū al-Nisʿah (the man of the strap).

Grades by grader

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Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSahihfawazahmed0

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4498Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1407Sunan an-Nasa'i 4722Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28577al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6915

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. Dhakwān al-Sammān
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
    أَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. al-Aʿmash
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  4. Abū Muʿāwiyah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
    أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
    حدثنا
  5. Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
    أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
    حدثنا
  6. Ibn Mājah
    one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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Commentaries

Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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