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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1202

Killing snakes and scorpions while praying

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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ وَيَزِيدَ وَهُوَ ابْنُ زُرَيْعٍ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ عَنْ ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ جَوْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِقَتْلِ الأَسْوَدَيْنِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
  2. Sufyān and Yazīd Wahū Ibn Zurayʿ
  3. Maʿmar
  4. Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
  5. Ḍamḍam b. Jaws
  6. Abū Hurayrah

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded us to kill the two black ones (snakes and scorpions) while praying."

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 1201fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

What scholars said about it

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  • Dāraquṭnī

    وخالفه معمر بن راشد وهشام الدستوائي وعلي بن المبارك رووه عن يحيى بن أبي كثير عن ضمضم بن جوس عن أبي هريرة وهو الصواب

    machine translationMaʿmar b. Rāshid, Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī and ʿAlī b. al-Mubārak contradicted him; they narrated it from Yaḥyā b. Abī Kathīr, from Ḍamḍam b. Jawš, from Abū Hurayrah, and this is the correct version.

    in سنن النسائي, p. 1202
  • ابن الملقن

    هذا الحديث صحيح

    machine translationThis hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).

    in سنن النسائي, p. 1202

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
    ضَمْضَمِ بْنِ جَوْسٍثقة
    عن
  3. trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
    يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
    مَعْمَرٍثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
    عن
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt).d. 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.
    وَيَزِيدُ ، وَهُوَ ابْنُ زُرَيْعٍثقة ثبت .
    عن
  6. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
    قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
    أخبرنا
  7. the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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

Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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