Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1696
What Has Been Related About What Is Recommend Regarding Horses
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ عُلَىِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ عَنْ أَبِي قَتَادَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
خَيْرُ الْخَيْلِ الأَدْهَمُ الأَقْرَحُ الأَرْثَمُ ثُمَّ الأَقْرَحُ الْمُحَجَّلُ طَلْقُ الْيَمِينِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ أَدْهَمَ فَكُمَيْتٌ عَلَى هَذِهِ الشِّيَةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb
- ʿUla b. Rabāḥ
- Abū Qatādah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
That the Prophet ﷺ said: "The best horse is the black one with a spot on the face, and white on the upper lip. Then the one with some white on his lower legs, except for the right. So if it is no black, then the Kumait (red one with black on its ears and its mane) with these markings."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Good | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح سنن الترمذي, p. 1696 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī
فسمعت أبي يقول هذا حديث غلط يعني حديث رواه هانئ بن المتوكل الإسكندراني عن ابن لهيعة عن يزيد بن أبي حبيب أن ابن شهاب كتب إليه عن عبيد الله بن عبد الله بن عتبة عن أبي هريرة روى ابن لهيعة هذا الحديث عن يزيد بن أبي حبيب عن علي بن رباح عن أبي قتادة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
machine translationI heard my father say: "This ḥadīth is a mistake," meaning a ḥadīth narrated by Hāniʾ b. al-Mutawakkil al-Iskandarānī, from Ibn Lahīʿah, from Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb, that Ibn Shihāb wrote to him, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdillāh b. ʿUtbah, from Abū Hurayrah. Ibn Lahīʿah narrated this ḥadīth from Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb, from ʿAlī b. Rabāḥ, from Abū Qatādah, from the Prophet ﷺ.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 1809 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن صحيح غريب.
machine translationGood, sound, and strange (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb).
in سنن الترمذي, p. 1696
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3877وَعَن أبي قَتَادَة عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «خَيْرُ الْخَيْلِ الْأَدْهَمُ الْأَقْرَحُ الْأَرْثَمُ ثُمَّ الْأَقْرَحُ الْمُحَجَّلُ طُلُقُ الْيَمِينِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ أَدْهَمَ فَكُمَيْتٌ عَلَى هَذِهِ الشِّيَةِ
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1697Sunan Ibn Majah 2789Musnad Ahmad 22561al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 13018Musnad al-Tayalisi 640al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 2458
Narrators
- He took part in Uḥud and the battles after itd. al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān said: 40 AH, al-Wāqidī said: 54 AH, the people of Kufa reported that he died: 38 AH, al-Bukhārī mentioned him in al-Awsaṭ, among those who died between 50 AH and 60 AHأَبُو قَتَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَارِسُ رَسُولِ اللهِشهد أحدا وما بعدهاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 117 AH, also said: 114 AHعُلَيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AHيَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسلعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AHابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهماأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 235 AH, or 238 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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