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Sunan Abi Dawud 3905

Regarding Astrology

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَمُسَدَّدٌ الْمَعْنَى قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الأَخْنَسِ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ مَاهَكَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ عِلْمًا مِنَ النُّجُومِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنَ السِّحْرِ زَادَ مَا زَادَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah and Musaddad al-Maʿná
  2. Yaḥyá
  3. ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Akhnas
  4. al-Walīd b. ʿAbdullāh
  5. Yūsuf b. Māhak
  6. Ibn ʿAbbās
  7. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone acquires any knowledge of astrology, he acquires a branch of magic of which he gets more as long as he continues to do so.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 3726مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ عِلْمًا مِنَ النُّجُومِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنَ السِّحْرِ زَادَ مَا زَادَ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 4598عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ عِلْمًا مِنَ النُّجُومِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنَ السِّحْرِ زَادَ مَا زَادَ». رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَابْنُ مَاجَه
  • Misykatul Mashabih 4604وَعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنِ اقْتَبَسَ بَابًا مِنْ عِلْمِ النُّجُومِ لِغَيْرِ مَا ذَكَرَ اللَّهُ فَقَدِ اقْتَبَسَ شُعْبَةً مِنَ السِّحْرِ الْمُنَجِّمُ كَاهِنٌ والكاهنُ ساحرٌ وال

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 2840al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11308Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26158al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 16609

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. Yūsuf b. Māhak
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Bakr b. Abī ʿĀṣim said: 103 AH. Ibn Ḥajar said: 106 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 110 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ and others said: 113 AH. Also said: 114 AH
    يُوسُفَ بْنِ مَاهَكَثقة
    عن
  3. al-Walīd b. ʿAbdillāh
    trustworthy (thiqah)
    الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة
    عن
  4. ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Akhnas
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
    عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْأَخْنَسِصدوق
    عن
  5. Yaḥyā
    trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AH
    يَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوة
    نا
  6. Musaddad
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AH
    وَمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  7. Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī
    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

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

Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)

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riyad 1671aMishkat al-Masabih 4598aMishkat al-Masabih 4604

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