Sunan an-Nasa'i 741
Praying On A Donkey
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عُمَرَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلاَنَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ
أَنَّهُ رَأَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَهُوَ رَاكِبٌ إِلَى خَيْبَرَ وَالْقِبْلَةُ خَلْفَهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Manṣūr
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿUmar
- Dāwud b. Qays
- Muḥammad b. ʿAjlān
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd
- Anas b. Mālik
We do not know of anyone who reported anything to support what 'Amr bin Yahya said about praying on a donkey. As for the Hadith of Yahya bin Sa'eed from Anas, what is correct is that it is Mawquf. [1] And Allah knows best. [1] That is a saying or action of a Companion of the Prophet ﷺ
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ لاَ نَعْلَمُ أَحَدًا تَابَعَ عَمْرَو بْنَ يَحْيَى عَلَى قَوْلِهِ يُصَلِّي عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَحَدِيثُ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ الصَّوَابُ مَوْقُوفٌ وَاللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى أَعْلَمُ
machine translationAbū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: We do not know anyone who corroborated ʿAmr b. Yaḥyā in his statement "he used to pray on a donkey." As for the hadith of Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd from Anas, the correct version is that it is a statement of the Companion (mawqūf). And Allah, Glorified and Exalted, knows best.
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī
لا نعلم أحدا تابع عمرو بن يحيى على قوله يصلي على حمار وحديث يحيى بن سعيد عن أنس الصواب موقوف
machine translationWe do not know anyone who corroborated ʿAmr b. Yaḥyā in his statement "he used to pray on a donkey." As for the hadith of Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd from Anas, the correct version is that it is a statement of the Companion (mawqūf).
in سنن النسائي, p. 741 - Dāraquṭnī
يرويه داود بن قيس الفراء واختلف عنه فرواه إسماعيل بن عمر أبو المنذر عن داود بن قيس عن ابن عجلان عن يحيى بن سعيد عن أنس عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وخالفه عبد الله بن المسبح وإسحاق بن سليمان بن الرازي فروياه عن داود بن قيس عن يحيى بن سعيد عن أنس مرفوعا أيضا ولم يذكرا فيه عن ابن عجلان وخالفهم مالك بن أنس وابن عيينة ووهيب ويحيى القطان وعمرو بن الحارث وزهير وعبيد الله بن عمرو وعبد الوهاب الثقفي وعبد العزيز القسملي وزفر بن الهذيل وهشيم وعبد الرحمن بن اليمان شيخ يروي عنه الأوزاعي فقط والدراوردي وأبو حمزة السكري وعبدة بن سليمان فرووه عن يحيى بن سعيد عن أنس موقوفا وهو الصواب
machine translationIt is narrated by Dāwūd b. Qays al-Farrāʾ, and there is disagreement about him. Ismāʿīl b. ʿUmar Abū al-Mundhir narrated it from Dāwūd b. Qays, from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd, from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ. He was contradicted by ʿAbdullāh b. al-Musabbiḥ and Isḥāq b. Sulaymān al-Rāzī, who narrated it from Dāwūd b. Qays, from Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd, from Anas, also as attributed to the Prophet (marfūʿ), and they did not mention Ibn ʿAjlān in it. They were contradicted by Mālik b. Anas, Ibn ʿUyaynah, Wuhayb, Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith, Zuhayr, ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAmr, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Thaqafī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Qasmalī, Zufar b. al-Hudhayl, Hushaym, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Yamān (a shaykh from whom only al-Awzāʿī narrates), al-Darāwardī, Abū Ḥamzah al-Sukkarī and ʿAbdah b. Sulaymān. They narrated it from Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd, from Anas, as a statement of the Companion (mawqūf), and that is the correct version.
in سنن النسائي, p. 741
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 5099Musnad Ahmad 5207Musnad Ahmad 6120Sahih Ibn Hibban 2515al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13309al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 13313
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 143 AH or 144 AH, also said 146 AHيَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبتعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), except that the hadiths of Abū Hurayrah became confused for him (ikhtalaṭat ʿalayhi)d. 148 AH, or 149 AH, al-Dhahabī said in al-Kāshif 138 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَجْلَانَصدوق إلا أنه اختلطت عليه أحاديث أبي هريرةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. during the caliphate of Abū Jaʿfarدَاوُدُ بْنُ قَيْسٍثقة فاضلحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 200 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عُمَرَثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 254 AH, or 256 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقةأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
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