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Sunan an-Nasa'i 3768

Swearing By One's Forefathers

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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ حَرْبٍ عَنِ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّهُ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ عُمَرَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ

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

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd
  2. Muḥammad / Ibn Ḥarb
  3. al-Zubaydī
  4. al-Zuhrī
  5. Sālim
  6. his father
  7. ʿUmar
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

"The Messenger of Allah said: '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 it 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."

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiSoundAnother source records this grader as “Hasan” (fawazahmed0).hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Abu GhuddahSahihfawazahmed0
al-AlbaniSoundin صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 3777fawazahmed0, 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
    أخبره
  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. al-Zubaydī
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. Ibn Ḥibbān said: 146 AH or 147 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 148 AH, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Baghdādī said: 149 AH
    الزُّبَيْدِيِّثقة ثبت
    عن
  6. Muḥammad b. Ḥarb
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 192 AH or 194 AH
    مُحَمَّدٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ حَرْبٍثقة
    أنبأنا
  7. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. 250 AH
    عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍصدوق
    أخبرنا
  8. 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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