Sunan an-Nasa'i 3490
Drawing Lots For A Child If Several Men Dispute Over Him
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنِ الأَجْلَحِ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْخَلِيلِ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَرْقَمَ قَالَ
كُنْتُ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَعَلِيٌّ ؓ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِالْيَمَنِ فَأَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ شَهِدْتُ عَلِيًّا أُتِيَ فِي ثَلاَثَةِ نَفَرٍ ادَّعَوْا وَلَدَ امْرَأَةٍ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ لأَحَدِهِمْ تَدَعُهُ لِهَذَا فَأَبَى وَقَالَ لِهَذَا تَدَعُهُ لِهَذَا فَأَبَى وَقَالَ لِهَذَا تَدَعُهُ لِهَذَا فَأَبَى قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ؓ أَنْتُمْ شُرَكَاءُ مُتَشَاكِسُونَ وَسَأُقْرِعُ بَيْنَكُمْ فَأَيُّكُمْ أَصَابَتْهُ الْقُرْعَةُ فَهُوَ لَهُ وَعَلَيْهِ ثُلُثَا الدِّيَةِ فَضَحِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ حَتَّى بَدَتْ نَوَاجِذُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
- Yaḥyá
- al-Ajlaḥ
- al-Shaʿbī
- ʿAbdullāh b. Abū al-Khalīl
- Zayd b. Arqam
"I was with the Messenger of Allah, and 'Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, was in Yemen at that time. A man came to him and said: 'I saw 'Ali when three men were brought to him who all claimed (to be the father) of a child. 'Ali said to one of them: Will you give the child up to him? And he refused. He said to (the next one): Will you give the child up to him? And he refused. He said to (the next one): Will you give the child up to him? And he refused. 'Ali said: You are disputing partners. I will cast lots among you, and whoever wins the draw, the child is for him, and he has to pay two-thirds of the Diyah.' The Messenger of Allah laughed so much that his back teeth became visible."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | WeakAnother source records this grader as “Hasan” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 3490 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
قد اختلفوا في هذا الحديث فاضطربوا والصحيح حديث سلمة بن كهيل
machine translationThey differed concerning this hadith and were inconsistent (iḍṭarabū) about it, and the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) one is the hadith of Salamah b. Kuhayl.
in سنن النسائي, p. 3492
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 4996Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 23852Musnad al-Tayalisi 183al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7037
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 66 AH, also said: 68 AH, also said 65 AH, also said: 60 AHزَيْدُ بْنُ أَرْقَمَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. between 81 and 90 AHعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْخَلِيلِمقبولعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmīالشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضلعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), Shīʿīd. 145 AHالْأَجْلَحِصدوق شيعيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam and exemplar (qudwah)d. 198 AHيَحْيَىثقة متقن حافظ ، إمام قدوةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
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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