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Sunan an-Nasa'i 3767

Swearing By One's Forefathers

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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عُمَرَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ

إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَنْهَاكُمْ أَنْ تَحْلِفُوا بِآبَائِكُمْ قَالَ عُمَرُ فَوَاللَّهِ مَا حَلَفْتُ بِهَا بَعْدُ ذَاكِرًا وَلاَ آثِرًا

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd and Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman Wa-al-Lafẓ Lah
  2. Sufyān
  3. al-Zuhrī
  4. Sālim
  5. his father
  6. ʿUmar
  7. al-Nabī ﷺ

"Allah forbids you to swear by your forefathers." 'Umar said: "By Allah, I never swore by them again, whether saying it for myself or reporting of others."

Notes

  • قَالَ عُمَرُ فَوَاللَّهِ مَا حَلَفْتُ بِهَا بَعْدُ ذَاكِرًا وَلاَ آثِرًا

    machine translationʿUmar said: "By God, I have not sworn by it since, neither intentionally nor by repeating the words of another."

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 3776fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6647Sunan Abi Dawud 3250al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19881Musnad Abi Ya'la 5486

Narrators

  1. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
    عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
    عن
  2. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
    أَبِيهِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
    عن
  3. Sālim b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
    He was reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid) and virtuous (fāḍil); he resembled his father in conduct (hady) and demeanor (samt)d. 105 AH or 106 AH or 107 AH or 108 AH, and the correct one is the first
    سَالِمٍكان ثبتا عابدا فاضلا ، كان يشبه بأبيه في الهدي والسمت
    عن
  4. al-Zuhrī
    The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
    الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
    عن
  5. Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
    سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
    حدثنا
  6. Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhzūmī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 249 AH
    وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة
    أخبرنا
  7. al-Nasāʾī
    the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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Commentaries

الاعتبار في الناسخ والمنسوخ
Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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