Muwatta' Malik 54-33

Translation

Malik related to me from Safiyy, the mawla of Ibn Aflah that Abu's-Saib, the mawla of Hisham ibn Zuhra said, "I went to Abu Said al-Khudri and found him praying. I sat to wait for him until he finished the prayer. I heard a movement under a bed in his room, and it was a snake. I stood up to kill it, and Abu Said gestured to me to sit. When he was finished he pointed to a room in the house and said, 'Do you see this room?' I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'There was a young boy in it who had just got married. He went out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to al-Khandaq, (the ditch which the muslims dug in the 5th year of the Hijra to defend Madina against the Quraysh and their allies). When he was there, the youth came and asked his permission, saying, "Messenger of Allah. Give me permission to return to my family." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave him permission and said, "Take your weapons with you, for I fear the Banu Quraydha tribe. They may harm you." The youth went to his family and found his wife standing between the two doors. He lifted his spear to stab her as jealousy had been aroused in him. She said, "Don't be hasty until you go in and see what is in your house." He entered and found a snake coiled up on his bed. He transfixed it with his spear and then went out with it and pitched it into the house. The snake stirred on the end of the spear and the youth fell dead. No one knew which of them died first, the snake or the youth. That was mentioned to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he said, "There are jinn in Madina who have become muslim. When you see one of them, call out to it for three days. If it appears after that, then kill it, for it is a shaytan." "'

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  روى هذا الحديث مالك وعبيد الله بن عمر عن صيفي عن أبي السائب عن أبي سعيد عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ونرى أن هذا الرجل الذي روى عنه أسماء بن عبيد هو صيفي وليس للسائب بن يزيد معنى

  machine translationMālik and ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar narrated this hadith from Ṣayfī, from Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Saʿīd, from the Prophet ﷺ. We hold that this man from whom Asmāʾ b. ʿUbayd narrated is Ṣayfī, and that al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd has no place in it. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1730
• Dāraquṭnī

  حدث به عبيد الله بن عمر واختلف عنه فرواه عبدة بن سليمان عن عبيد الله بن عمر عن العلاء عن أبيه عن أبي سعيد حدث به الحسن بن سهل الحناط عن عبدة هكذا وخالفه عبد الله بن نمير فرواه عن عبيد الله بن عمر عن صيفي عن أبي سعيد الخدري وصيفي لم يسمعه من أبي سعيد ورواه ابن عيينة عن ابن عجلان فقال عن صيفي مولى أبي السائب عن أبي سعيد وهو وهم والصواب ما رواه يحيى بن سعيد القطان والليث بن سعد عن ابن عجلان عن صيفي عن أبي السائب عن أبي سعيد وكذلك رواه مالك بن أنس عن صيفي عن أبي السائب عن أبي سعيد وهو الصواب

  machine translationʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar related it, and there is disagreement about him. ʿAbdah b. Sulaymān narrated it from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar, from al-ʿAlāʾ, from his father, from Abū Saʿīd; al-Ḥasan b. Sahl al-Ḥannāṭ related it from ʿAbdah in this way. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr differed from him and narrated it from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar, from Ṣayfī, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, but Ṣayfī did not hear it from Abū Saʿīd. Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it from Ibn ʿAjlān and said: from Ṣayfī, the freed slave of Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Saʿīd, and that is an error (wahm). The correct version is what Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān and al-Layth b. Saʿd narrated from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Ṣayfī, from Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Saʿīd. Likewise Mālik b. Anas narrated it from Ṣayfī, from Abū al-Sāʾib, from Abū Saʿīd, and that is the correct one. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1730
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  قد ذكرنا الاختلاف في إسناد هذا الحديث وفي ألفاظه والقول عندي في ذلك ما قاله مالك والله أعلم

  machine translationWe have already mentioned the disagreement over the chain of this hadith and its wordings. In my view, the right position on this is what Mālik said, and God knows best. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1730

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 5257Sunan Abi Dawud 5258Sunan Abi Dawud 5259Musnad Ahmad 11369Sahih Ibn Hibban 6157al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10768

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   قال
2. 2
   Abū al-Sāʾib mawlá Hishām b. Zuhrah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
   أَبِي السَّائِبِ مَوْلَى هِشَامِ بْنِ زُهْرَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Ṣayfī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AH
   صَيْفِيٍّ مَوْلَى ابْنِ أَفْلَحَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

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

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