Sunan Abi Dawud 227

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said: Angels do not enter the house where there is a picture, or a dog, or a person who is sexually defiled.

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What scholars said about it

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• Mubarakpūri

  في إسناده عبد الله بن نجي قال البخاري فيه نظر

  machine translationIn its chain is ʿAbdullāh b. Nujayy; al-Bukhārī said of him: "There is something questionable about him (fīhi naẓar)." Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 226
• الزيلعى

  عبد الله بن نجي فيه مقال

  machine translationThere is some criticism (maqāl) of ʿAbdullāh b. Nujayy. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 226
• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  هذا مختلف في إسناده ومتنه قيل سبح وقيل تنحنح قال ومداره على عبد الله بن نجي قلت واختلف عليه فقيل عنه عن علي وقيل عن أبيه عن علي

  machine translationThis is disputed in its chain and its text: it is said that he said "Subḥān Allāh", and it is said that he cleared his throat. He said: its basis rests on ʿAbdullāh b. Nujayy. I say: there is disagreement about him; it is said that he narrated from ʿAlī, and it is said that he narrated from his father, from ʿAlī. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 226
• al-Bukhari

  عبد الله بن نجي الحضرمي عن أبيه عن علي فيه نظر

  machine translationʿAbdullāh b. Nujayy al-Ḥaḍramī, from his father, from ʿAlī: there is something to be examined in it (fīhi naẓar). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 226

Same hadith, other wordings

• Sunan an-Nasa'i 261لاَ تَدْخُلُ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ بَيْتًا فِيهِ صُورَةٌ وَلاَ كَلْبٌ وَلاَ جُنُبٌ
• Misykatul Mashabih 463وَعَنْ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: «لَا تدخل الْمَلَائِكَةُ بَيْتًا فِيهِ صُورَةٌ وَلَا كَلْبٌ وَلَا جنب». رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَالنَّسَائِيّ
• Sunan Abu Dawud 4152لاَ تَدْخُلُ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ بَيْتًا فِيهِ صُورَةٌ وَلاَ كَلْبٌ وَلاَ جُنُبٌ
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 4281الْمَلاَئِكَةُ لاَ تَدْخُلُ بَيْتًا فِيهِ صُورَةٌ وَلاَ كَلْبٌ وَلاَ جُنُبٌ
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 5350لاَ تَدْخُلُ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ بَيْتًا فِيهِ صُورَةٌ

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2806Sunan Ibn Majah 3651Musnad Ahmad 1270al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 21699al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 387al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 973

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   His father

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   أَبِيهِمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Nujayy

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 81 and 90 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ نُجَيٍّصدوق
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Zurʿah b. ʿAmrū b. Jarīr al-Ghalābī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 and 100 AH
   أَبِي زُرْعَةَ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ جَرِيرٍثقة
   عن
5. 5
   ʿAlī b. Mudrik

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AH
   عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُدْرِكٍثقة
   عن
6. 6
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ḥafṣ b. ʿUmar

   Trustworthy and firm (thiqah thabt); he was criticized for taking payment for teaching hadithd. 225 AH
   حَفْصُ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة ثبت ، عيب بأخذ الأجرة على الحديث
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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.

Also in

Mishkat al-Masabih 463a