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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1203

Killing snakes and scorpions while praying

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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى عَنْ ضَمْضَمٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَمَرَ بِقَتْلِ الأَسْوَدَيْنِ فِي الصَّلاَةِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Rāfiʿ
  2. Sulaymān b. Dāwud Abū Dāwud
  3. Hishām / Ibn Abū ʿAbdullāh
  4. Maʿmar
  5. Yaḥyá
  6. Ḍamḍam
  7. Abū Hurayrah

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ enjoined killing the two black ones (snakes and scorpions) while praying.

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  • ابن الملقن

    هذا الحديث صحيح

    machine translationThis hadith is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ).

    in سنن النسائي, p. 1203
  • 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. 1203

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 921Sunan Ibn Majah 1245Sunan Ibn Majah 1247Musnad Ahmad 10154Musnad Ahmad 7379Sahih Ibn Hibban 2351

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    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. Ḍamḍam b. Jaws
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 110 AH
    ضَمْضَمٍثقة
    عن
  3. Yaḥyá b. Abī Kathīr
    trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AH
    يَحْيَىثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسل
    عن
  4. Maʿmar b. Rāshid
    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. Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī
    Trustworthy and firmly reliable (thiqah thabt), though he was accused of belief in free will (qadar)d. 151 AH, or 152 AH, or 153 AH, or 154 AH
    هِشَامٌ ، وَهُوَ ابْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت ، وقد رمي بالقدر
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Dāwūd
    trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AH
    سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ أَبُو دَاوُدَثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
    حدثنا
  7. Muḥammad b. Rāfiʿ
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 245 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍثقة عابد
    أخبرنا
  8. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

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

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