al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2121
✧ Oaths and Vows
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وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ: حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، نَبَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
« مَنْ حَلَفَ عَلَى يَمِينٍ، فَرَأَى غَيْرَهَا خَيْرًا مِنْهَا - فَلْيَأْتِ الَّذِي هُوَ خَيْرٌ، وَلَا كَفَّارَةَ عَلَيْهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- Hushaym Nabā Yaḥyá b. ʿUbaydullāh
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ Whoever swears an oath and then sees something better than it, let him do that which is better, and no expiation is upon him.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
يحيى ضعيف جدا
in المطالب العالية, p. 2121 - Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
أحاديث يحيى بن عبيد الله مناكير
in المطالب العالية, p. 2121
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 4385Sahih Muslim 1649gSahih Muslim 1651cSahih Muslim 1651eSunan Abi Dawud 3274Sunan an-Nasa'i 3779
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبِيهِمقبولعن
- abandoned (matrūk), al-Ḥākim went to excess and accused him of fabricationd. between 141 and 150 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِمتروك ، وأفحش الحاكم فرماه بالوضعنبا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AHهُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفيحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظ
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