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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5948

✧ Permitting the ruler to command the accused to swear an oath before being questioned by the claimant, and the mentioning of the discrepancies in the words of the transmitters of the news of al-Ash'ath b. Qays in that matter.

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أَخْبَرَنَا هَنَّادُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «مَنْ حَلَفَ عَلَى يَمِينٍ هُوَ فِيهَا فَاجِرٌ لِيَقْطَعَ بِهَا مَالَ امْرِئٍ مُسْلِمٍ لَقِيَ اللهَ وَهُوَ عَلَيْهِ غَضْبَانُ» فَقَالَ الْأَشْعَثُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ فِيَّ وَاللهِ كَانَ ذَلِكَ كَانَ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ أَرْضٌ فَجَحَدَنِي فَقَدَّمْتُهُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «أَلَكَ بَيِّنَةٌ؟» فَقُلْتُ لَا فَقَالَ لِلْيَهُودِيِّ «احْلِفْ» فَقُلْتُ وَاللهِ إِذًا يَحْلِفُ فَيَذْهَبُ حَقِّي فَأَنْزَلَ اللهُ تَعَالَى {إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَشْتَرُونَ بِعَهْدِ اللهِ وَأَيْمَانِهِمْ ثَمَنًا قَلِيلًا} [آل عمران 77] إِلَى آخِرِ الْآيَةِ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فَاتَنِي مِنْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ حَرْفٌ فِيمَا أَعْلَمُ وَلَا أَقِفُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَا نَعْلَمُ أَحَدًا تَابَعَ أَبَا مُعَاوِيَةَ عَلَى قَوْلِهِ فَقَالَ لِلْيَهُودِيِّ احْلِفْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Hannād b. al-Sarī
  2. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  3. al-Aʿmash
  4. Shaqīq
  5. ʿAbdullāh

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Whoever swears an oath in which he is false, to cut off thereby the property of a Muslim man, will meet Allah while He is angry with him." Al-Ash'ath b. Qays said: "By Allah, that was concerning me. There was a piece of land between me and a Jew, and he denied me it. I brought him to the Prophet ﷺ, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: 'Do you have evidence?' I said: 'No.' He said to the Jew: 'Swear.' I said: 'By Allah, then he will swear and take away my right.' Allah the Exalted then revealed: {Indeed, those who exchange the covenant of Allah and their oaths for a small price} [Al 'Imran 77] to the end of the verse." Abu Abd al-Rahman said: "I missed a word from this hadith, as far as I know, and I cannot ascertain it. We do not know of anyone who corroborated Abu Mu'awiyah in his saying: 'He said to the Jew: Swear.'"

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