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Sahih Muslim 1711a

Oath should be sworn by the defendant

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حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الطَّاهِرِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَرْحٍ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ:

«لَوْ يُعْطَى النَّاسُ بِدَعْوَاهُمْ لاَدَّعَى نَاسٌ دِمَاءَ رِجَالٍ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ وَلَكِنَّ الْيَمِينَ عَلَى الْمُدَّعَى عَلَيْهِ۔»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad b. ʿAmr b. Sarḥ
  2. Ibn and Hb
  3. Ibn Jurayj
  4. Ibn Abū Mulaykah
  5. Ibn ʿAbbās
  6. al-Nabī ﷺ

that the Prophet ﷺ said, "If the people were given according to their claims, they would claim the lives of persons and their properties, but the oath must be taken by the defendant."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 2321لَوْ يُعْطَى النَّاسُ بِدَعْوَاهُمُ ادَّعَى نَاسٌ دِمَاءَ رِجَالٍ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ وَلَكِنِ الْيَمِينُ عَلَى الْمُدَّعَى عَلَيْهِ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 3758عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «لَوْ يُعْطَى النَّاسُ بِدَعْوَاهُمْ لَادَّعَى نَاسٌ دِمَاءَ رِجَالٍ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ وَلَكِنَّ الْيَمِينَ عَلَى الْمُدَّعَى عَلَيْهِ». رَو

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 3427Sahih Ibn Hibban 5083al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21257al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5960

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
    One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    عن
  2. Ibn Abī Mulaykah
    trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 117 AH, also said: 118 AH, and al-Dhahabī stated it definitively
    ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَثقة فقيه
    عن
  3. Ibn Jurayj
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AH
    ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسل
    عن
  4. ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
    ابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
    أخبرنا
  5. Abū al-Ṭāhir
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. end of 249 AH, or 250 AH
    أَبُو الطَّاهِرِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَرْحٍثقة
    حدثني
  6. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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Mishkat al-Masabih 3758ibnrajab50 33-3

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