Sunan an-Nasa'i 5398

Translation

"There was a time when we did not pass so many judgments, but now that time is over. Now Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, has decreed that we reach a time when, as you see, (we are asked to pass many judgments). Whoever among you is asked to pass a judgment after this day, let him pass judgment according to what is in the Book of Allah. If he is faced with a matter that is not mentioned in the Book of Allah, let him pass judgment according to the way His Prophet [SAW] passed judgment. If he is faced with a matter that is not mentioned in the Book of Allah, and concerning which His Prophet did not pass judgment, then let him pass judgment according to the way the righteous passed judgment. And let him not say 'I am afraid, I am afraid.' For that which is lawful is clear and that which is unlawful is clear, and between them are matters which are not as clear. Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt."

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What scholars said about it

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• يحيى القطان

  كنا نرى أن سفيان وهم فيه رأيت مؤملا يرويه عن سفيان عن الأعمش عن عمارة عن حريث بن ظهير وعبد الرحمن بن يزيد فصح القولان جميعا

  machine translationWe used to think that Sufyān had made an error in it, until I saw Muʾammal narrating it from Sufyān, from al-Aʿmash, from ʿUmārah, from Ḥurayth b. Ẓuhayr and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd. So both statements turned out to be sound. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 5412
• al-Albani

  صحيح [لغيره]

  machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ) [through other chains (li-ghayrihi)] Report a problem

  in صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 5413

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 18384Musnad Ahmad 18418al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 10512Musnad al-Bazzar 3266Musnad al-Bazzar 3270Musnad al-Bazzar 3271

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   عن
2. 2
   Ḥurayth b. Ẓuhayr

   unknown (majhūl)
   حُرَيْثِ بْنِ ظُهَيْرٍمجهول
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUmārah b. ʿUmayr al-Taymī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 82 AH, or 98 AH, or 100 AH
   عُمَارَةَ بْنِ عُمَيْرٍثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   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 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Yūsuf

   trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, it is said: he erred in some of the hadith of Sufyān, despite that, he is given precedence in it by them over ʿAbd al-Razzāqd. 212 AH
   الْفِرْيَابِيُّثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاق
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Maymūn al-Raqqī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 268 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍثقة
   أخبرني
8. 8
   al-Nasāʾī

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

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