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<hadith_export source="ParallelQuran.com" exported="2026-08-23T23:29:01Z" count="4">
  <hadith number="2928" global_number="23433">
    <collection>Sunan Abi Dawud</collection>
    <book>Tribute, Spoils, and Rulership (Kitab Al-Kharaj, Wal-Fai&apos; Wal-Imarah)</book>
    <narrators>
      <narrator>Abdur Rahman bin Samra</narrator>
      <narrator>al-Hasan al-Basri الحسن البصري</narrator>
      <narrator>Hashaym bin Bashayr bin al-Qasim هشيم بن بشير بن القاسم</narrator>
      <narrator>Mansur bin al-Ma&apos;tamar al-Salmi منصور بن المعتمر بن عبد الله السلمي</narrator>
      <narrator>Muhammad bin al-Sabah محمد بن الصباح البزاز الدولابي</narrator>
      <narrator>Yonus bin Yazid bin Abi al-Nijad يونس بن يزيد بن أبي النجاد</narrator>
    </narrators>
    <grade>Sahih</grade>
    <text>The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock. The amir (ruler) who is over the people is a shepherd and is responsible for his flock; a man is a shepherd in charge of the inhabitants of his household and he is responsible for his flock; a woman is a shepherdess in charge of her husband’s house and children and she is responsible for them; and a man’s slave is a shepherd in charge of his master’s property and he is responsible for it. So each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock.</text>
    <url>https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-2928/</url>
  </hadith>
  <hadith number="3276" global_number="23781">
    <collection>Sunan Abi Dawud</collection>
    <book>Oaths and Vows (Kitab Al-Aiman Wa Al-Nudhur)</book>
    <narrators>
      <narrator>Abdur Rahman bin Samra</narrator>
      <narrator>al-Hasan al-Basri الحسن البصري</narrator>
      <narrator>Hashaym bin Bashayr bin al-Qasim هشيم بن بشير بن القاسم</narrator>
      <narrator>Mnswr bin Zadhan منصور بن زاذان</narrator>
      <narrator>Muhammad bin al-Sabah محمد بن الصباح البزاز الدولابي</narrator>
      <narrator>Yonus bin Yazid bin Abi al-Nijad يونس بن يزيد بن أبي النجاد</narrator>
    </narrators>
    <grade>Sahih</grade>
    <text>On the authority of his father that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: I swear by Allah that if Allah wills I shall swear on an oath and then consider something else to be better than it without making atonement for my oath and doing the thing that is better. Or he said (according to another version): But doing the thing that is better and making atonement for my oath.</text>
    <url>https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3276/</url>
  </hadith>
  <hadith number="3277" global_number="23782">
    <collection>Sunan Abi Dawud</collection>
    <book>Oaths and Vows (Kitab Al-Aiman Wa Al-Nudhur)</book>
    <narrators>
      <narrator>Abdul A&apos;ala bin &apos;Abdul A&apos;ala al-Sami عبد الأعلى بن عبد الأعلى البصري السامي</narrator>
      <narrator>Abdur Rahman bin Samra</narrator>
      <narrator>al-Hasan al-Basri الحسن البصري</narrator>
      <narrator>Qatada قتادة</narrator>
      <narrator>Sa&apos;id bin Abi Sa&apos;id</narrator>
      <narrator>Yahya bin Khlf al-Bahly يحيى بن خلف الباهلي أبو سلمة البصري</narrator>
    </narrators>
    <grade>Sahih</grade>
    <text>The Prophet (ﷺ) said to me: ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Samurah, when you swear an oath and consider something else to be better than it, do the thing that is beter and make atonement for your oath.
Abu Dawud said: I heard Ahmad (b. Hanbal) permitting to make atonement before breaking the oath.</text>
    <url>https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-3277/</url>
  </hadith>
  <hadith number="4259" global_number="24764">
    <collection>Sunan Abi Dawud</collection>
    <book>Trials and Fierce Battles (Kitab Al-Fitan Wa Al-Malahim)</book>
    <narrators>
      <narrator>Abdur Rahman bin Samra</narrator>
      <narrator>Awn bin Abi Juhayfa عون بن أبي جحيفة</narrator>
      <narrator>Hisham bin &apos;Abdul Malik al-Tayalasi هشام بن عبد الملك أبو الوليد الطيالسي</narrator>
      <narrator>Rqbh bin Msqlh bin Abd رقبة بن مسقلة</narrator>
      <narrator>Wadah bin &apos;Abdullah al-Yashkari وضاح بن عبد الله اليشكري أبو عوانة</narrator>
    </narrators>
    <grade>Sahih</grade>
    <text>The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Before the Last Hour there will be commotions like pieces of a dark night in which a man will be a believer in the morning and an infidel in the evening, or a believer in the evening and infidel in the morning. He who sits during them will be better than he who gets up and he who walks during them is better than he who runs. So break your bows, cut your bowstrings and strike your swords on stones. If people then come in to one of you, let him be like the better of Adam’s two sons.</text>
    <url>https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4259/</url>
  </hadith>
</hadith_export>
