Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1485
What Has Been Related About Killing Snakes
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حَدَّثَنَا هَنَّادٌ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَى عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو لَيْلَى قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
إِذَا ظَهَرَتِ الْحَيَّةُ فِي الْمَسْكَنِ فَقُولُوا لَهَا إِنَّا نَسْأَلُكِ بِعَهْدِ نُوحٍ وَبِعَهْدِ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ أَنْ لاَ تُؤْذِينَا فَإِنْ عَادَتْ فَاقْتُلُوهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Hannād
- Ibn Abū Zāʾidah
- Ibn Abū Laylá
- Thābit al-Bunānī
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Laylá
- Abū Laylá
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "When a snake appears in your dwellings then say to it: We ask you - by covenant of Nuh, and by the covenant of Sulaiman bin Dawud - that you do not harm us.' If it returns, then kill it."
Notes
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ إِلاَّ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ مِنْ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- al-Tirmidhi
حسنه
machine translationHe graded it good (ḥasan).
in جامع الترمذي, p. 1574 - al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث حسن غريب
machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 1574 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب
machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb).
in سنن الترمذي, p. 1485 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب لا نعرفه من حديث ثابت البناني إلا من هذا الوجه من حديث ابن أبي ليلى
in سنن الترمذي, p. 1485
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 4137وَعَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو لَيْلَى: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " إِذَا ظَهَرَتِ الْحَيَّةُ فِي الْمَسْكَنِ فَقُولُوا لَهَا: إِنَّا نَسْأَلُكِ بِعَهْدِ نُوحٍ وَبِعَهْدِ سُلَي
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 5260al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6451al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 6452Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 20274al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10766
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 37 AHأَبُو لَيْلَى الْأَيْسَرُ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 82 AH, or 83 AH, also said: 71 AH, which is a mistakeعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّثقة عابدعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), of very poor memoryd. 148 AHابْنُ أَبِي لَيْلَىصدوق ، سيئ الحفظ جداحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 183, also said 180 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 184 AHابْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَثقة متقنحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 243 AHهَنَّادٌثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ
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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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