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Sunan Abi Dawud 5134

A man should begin with his own name when writing a letter

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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ أَحْمَدُ قَالَ مَرَّةً يَعْنِي هُشَيْمًا عَنْ بَعْضِ وَلَدِ الْعَلاَءِ

أَنَّ الْعَلاَءَ بْنَ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ كَانَ عَامِلَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ عَلَى الْبَحْرَيْنِ فَكَانَ إِذَا كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ بَدَأَ بِنَفْسِهِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
  2. Hushaym
  3. Manṣūr
  4. Ibn Sīrīn
  5. Aḥmad
  6. Marrah / Hushaym
  7. Baʿḍ and Lad al-ʿAlāʾ

Some of the children of al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami said: Al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami was the governor of the Prophet ﷺ at al-Bahrayn, and when he wrote to him he began with his won name.

Grades by grader

al-AlbaniWeak Chainin ضعيف أبي داود, p. 5134fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidDaif Isnaadfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiDaiffawazahmed0

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 5135Musnad Ahmad 18986Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26401al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20484al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20485al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7717

Narrators

  1. al-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Ḥaḍramī al-Umawī
    Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 14 AH, or: 21 AH
    العَلَاء بن الحَضْرَمِيّ الأُمَوِيّصحابي جليل
    أن
  2. Some of son of al-ʿAlāʾ
    بعض ولد العلاء
    عن
  3. Muḥammad b. Sīrīn
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AH
    ابْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنى
    عن
  4. Manṣūr b. Zādhān
    trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 127 AH, or 128 AH, or 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH
    مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت عابد
    عن
  5. Hushaym b. Bashīr
    Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AH
    هُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفي
    نا
  6. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
    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

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

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