Sunan an-Nasa'i 4785

Translation

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'If a person's relative is killed, he has the choice of two things: Either he may retaliate, or he may take the ransom."'

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What scholars said about it

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• الزيلعى

  إن شاء فله دمه وإن شاء فعقله وهو حديث صحيح

  in سنن النسائي, p. 4798
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديث لا يختلف أهل العلم بالحديث في صحته

  in سنن النسائي, p. 4798

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 6880Sahih Muslim 1355aMusnad Ahmad 7242Sunan al-Daraqutni 3149Sunan al-Daraqutni 3150al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5832

Narrators

1. 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
   حدثني
2. 2
   Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AH
   أَبُو سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثر
   حدثني
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 143 AH or 144 AH, also said 146 AH
   يَحْيَىثقة ثبت
   أخبرني
4. 4
   Abū ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AH
   الْأَوْزَاعِيُّثقة جليل
   أنبأنا
5. 5
   Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdullāh b. Samāʿah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 181 and 190 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُ - وَهُوَ ابْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ سَمَاعَةَ -ثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Aʿlá b. Mushir al-Ghassānī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 218 AH
   أَبُو مُسْهِرٍثقة فاضل
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ashʿath

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 266 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَشْعَثَثقة
   أخبرنا
8. 8
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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