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Sunan Abi Dawud 3207

If A Gravedigger Finds Bones, Should He Leave That Place ?

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حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَعْدٍ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِهِ حَيًّا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. al-Qaʿnabī
  2. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad
  3. Saʿd / Ibn Saʿīd
  4. ʿAmrah Bint ʿAbd al-Raḥman
  5. ʿĀʾishah
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Breaking a dead man's bone is like breaking it when he is alive.

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al-AlbaniSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪdSound Chain per Muslimin سنن أبي داود, p. 3206hadithunlocked
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidSahihfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiSahihfawazahmed0

What scholars said about it

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  • Ibn Ḥazm

    إن هذا الحديث لا يسند إلا من طريق سعد بن سعيد وهو ضعيف جدا لا يحتج به

    machine translationThis hadith is not transmitted with a connected chain except through Saʿd b. Saʿīd, who is very weak (ḍaʿīf jiddan) and cannot be relied upon as evidence.

    in سنن أبي داود, p. 3206
  • Dāraquṭnī

    وليس بمحفوظ

    machine translationIt is not preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ).

    in سنن أبي داود, p. 3206
  • Dāraquṭnī

    والصحيح عن سعد بن سعيد وعن حارثة وليس بالقوي عن عمرة عن عائشة

    machine translationThe sound (ṣaḥīḥ) report is from Saʿd b. Saʿīd and from Ḥārithah, and it is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī) from ʿAmrah from ʿĀʾishah.

    in سنن أبي داود, p. 3206

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 1616كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِهِ حَيًّا
  • Misykatul Mashabih 1714وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ: أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «كَسْرُ عَظْمِ الْمَيِّتِ كَكَسْرِهِ حَيًّا». رَوَاهُ مَالِكٌ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
    عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī said: it is said she died in the year ninety-eight. Abū ʿUbayd Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ said: she died in 106 AH; Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim said: she died in 103 AH.
    عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة
    عن
  3. truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ)d. 141 AH
    سَعْدٍ - يَعْنِي : ابْنَ سَعِيدٍ -صدوق سيء الحفظ
    عن
  4. Truthful (ṣadūq); he used to narrate from the books of others and would make mistakes.d. 182 AH, or 186 AH, or 187 AH, or 189 AH
    عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍصدوق ، كان يحدث من كتب غيره فيخطئ
    نا
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH
    الْقَعْنَبِيُّثقة عابد
    حدثنا
  6. Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
    أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)

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