# Sunan Abi Dawud - Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

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**1 hadith**

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## Hadith #4417

**Book:** Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud) | **Narrator(s):** Hisham bin Sa'd al-Madni هشام بن سعد المدني أبو عباد, Muhammad bin Abi Da'ud al-Bghdady محمد بن أبي داود, Waki' bin al-Jarrah وكيع بن الجراح, Yazid bin N'ym bin Hzal يزيد بن نعيم بن هزال الأسلمي | **Grade:** Da'if

The tradition mentioned above (No. 4401) has also been transmitted by Ubadah ibn as-Samit through a different chain of narrators.
This version has: The people said to Sa’d ibn Ubadah: AbuThabit, the prescribed punishments have been revealed: if you find a man with your wife, what will you do?
He said: I shall strike them with a sword so much that they become silent (i.e. die). Should I go and gather four witnesses? Until that (time) the need would be fulfilled.
So they went away and gathered with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah! did you not see AbuThabit. He said so-and-so.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: The sword is a sufficient witness. He then said: No, no, a furious and a jealous man may follow this course.
Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Waki’ from al-Fadl b. Dilham from al-Hasan, from Qabisah b. Huraith, from Salamah b. al-Muhabbaq, from the Prophet (ﷺ). And this is the chain of the tradition narrated by Ibn al-Muhabbaq to the effect that a man had sexual intercourse with a slave girl of his wife.
Abu Dawud said: Al-Fadl b. Dilham was not the memoriser of traditions. He was a butcher in Wasit.

*Source: [ParallelQuran](https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sunan-abi-dawud-4417/)*

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