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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1327

What Has Been Related About How The Judge Is To Make A Judgement

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حَدَّثَنَا هَنَّادٌ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَوْنٍ الثَّقَفِيِّ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ رِجَالٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ مُعَاذٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَعَثَ مُعَاذًا إِلَى الْيَمَنِ، فَقَالَ: «كَيْفَ تَقْضِي؟» فَقَالَ: «أَقْضِي بِمَا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ». قَالَ: «فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ؟» قَالَ: «فَبِسُنَّةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ». قَالَ: «فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي سُنَّةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ؟» قَالَ: «أَجْتَهِدُ رَأْيِي». قَالَ: «الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي وَفَّقَ رَسُولَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ».

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Hannād
  2. Wakīʿ
  3. Shuʿbah
  4. Abū ʿAwn al-Thaqafī
  5. al-Ḥārith b. ʿAmr
  6. Rijāl min aṣḥāb Muʿādh
  7. Muʿādh

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent Muadh to Yemen and said, "How will you judge?" He replied, "I will judge according to what is in the Book of Allah." He said, "What if it is not in the Book of Allah?" He replied, "Then according to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." He said, "What if it is not in the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?" He replied, "I will exercise my own judgment." He said, "Praise be to Allah, who has guided the messenger of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."

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Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Ahmad Muhammad ShakirDaiffawazahmed0
al-AlbaniDaiffawazahmed0

Narrators

  1. هناد بن السري التميمي
  2. وكيع بن الجراح الرؤاسي
  3. شعبة بن الحجاج العتكي
  4. محمد بن عبيد الله الثقفي
  5. الحارث بن عمرو الثقفي