Sunan an-Nasa'i 4209
The Virtue Of The One Who Speaks The Truth Before An Unjust Ruler
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أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ طَارِقِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ
أَنَّ رَجُلاً سَأَلَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَقَدْ وَضَعَ رِجْلَهُ فِي الْغَرْزِ: أَىُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ؟ قَالَ: «كَلِمَةُ حَقٍّ عِنْدَ سُلْطَانٍ جَائِرٍ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq b. Manṣūr
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Sufyān
- ʿAlqamah b. Marthad
- Ṭāriq b. Shihāb
A man asked the Prophet ﷺ, while he had placed his foot in the stirrup: “Which jihad is best?” He said: “A word of truth in the presence of a tyrannical ruler.”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī | Sound Chainin سنن النسائي, p. 4220 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
مرسل
machine translationMursal (a report in which a Successor omits the Companion and attributes it directly to the Prophet ﷺ)
in سنن النسائي, p. 4220 - Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
حديث مرسل
in سنن النسائي, p. 4220
Other narrations of this report
al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7805al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8543al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1635al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1718
Narrators
- Abū Dāwūd said: He saw the Prophet ﷺ, but did not hear from him.d. 80 AH, or: 82 AH, or: 83 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān was certain of it, or: 84 AH, also said 123 AH, which is a mistake.طَارِقُ بْنُ شِهَابٍ الْأَحْمَسِيُّقال أبو داود : رأى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ، ولم يسمع منهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 120 AHعَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديثحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt)d. 251 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقة ، ثبتأخبرنا
- 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
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī
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