The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)

Book 25 of 43 · Sunan Abi Dawud

70 hadith Hadith 3571–3640 Sunni
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The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)

Sunan Abi Dawud

70 hadith Hadith 3571–3640 Sunni

About This Book

Compiled during the 833–888 CE period by al-Sijistani.

The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah) is book 25 of 43 in Sunan Abi Dawud, containing 70 hadith.

Geography

This collection was compiled primarily in Basra (later life). The narrators in this book are associated with 33 distinct geographic locations.

Abyssinia Makkah Medina al-Ray Baghdad Kufa Merv Basra قطيعة عيسى بن علي الهاشمي قريبا من دجلة al-Yamama Musal Hamadan Sana Wasit al-Halb Cairo Taif Hiran Damascus Nisapur Khurasan Bulkh Tusi Hims Yemen Alexandria Basrah Mada'in Yeman Qaysariyya al-Taif Asbahan Iraq

Narrators in This Book

This book features 221 narrators in its chains of transmission. The most frequently cited are Abu Hurairah, al-Zuhri ابن شهاب الزهري‎, محمد بن مسلم, ibn Abbas, Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل, Abdullah bin Wahb عبد الله بن وهب بن مسلم القرشي.

Abu Hurairah (10) al-Zuhri ابن شهاب الزهري‎, محمد بن مسلم (7) ibn Abbas (6) Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل (5) Abdullah bin Wahb عبد الله بن وهب بن مسلم القرشي (5) Yahya bin Sa'id bin Farroukh al-Qatan يحيى بن سعيد بن فروخ القطان (4) Muhammad bin Yahya bin Hiban محمد بن يحيى بن حبان (4) Abdur-Razzaq عبد الرزاق بن همام (4) Qatada قتادة (4) Abdul 'Aziz bin Muhammad al-Daruradi عبد العزيز بن محمد الدراوردي (3) Muhammad bin al-Muthna - al-Zaman محمد بن المثنى أبو موسى - الزمن (3) Muhammad bin Kathir bin Abi 'Ata' محمد بن كثير بن أبي عطاء الثقفي (3) Sufyan bin Sa‘id Ath-Thawri سفيان الثوري (3) Umm Salamah (3) Abdullah bin Mubarak عبد الله بن المبارك (3) Sulaiman bin Da'ud bin Da'ud سليمان بن داود بن داود بن علي (3) Ahmed bin 'Ubda bin Musa أحمد بن عبدة بن موسى (3) Ikrama عكرمة (3) Ibn Ishaq محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار‎ (3) Abdullah bin 'Ubaidullah b. Abi Mulayka عبد الله بن عبيد الله بن أبي مليكة (3) Ma'mar bin Rashid معمر بن راشد (3) Abdur Rahman bin Harmaz al-A'araj عبد الرحمن بن هرمز الأعرج أبو داود (2) Sa'id bin Abi Sa'id (2) Yazid bin 'Abdullah bin Usama B. al-Haad يزيد بن عبد الله بن أسامة بن الهاد (2) Umar bin Yonus bin al-Qasim عمر بن يونس بن القاسم (2)

Hadith in This Book 70 hadith

1 3571 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who has been appointed a judge has been killed without a knife.
2 3572 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who has been appointed a judge among the people has been killed without a knife.
3 3573 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Judges are of three types, one of whom will go to Paradise and two to Hell. The one who will go to Paradise is a man who knows what is right and gives…
4 3574 Sahih
'If a judge passes a judgment having exerted himself to arrive at what is correct, and he is indeed correct, he will have two rewards. If he passes judgment having exerted himself…
5 3575 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone seeks the office of judge among Muslims till he gets it and his justice prevails over his tyranny, he will go to Paradise; but the man whose…
6 3576 Hasan Sahih Isnaad
"If any do fail to judge (by the light of) what Allah has revealed, they are (no better than) unbelievers" up to "wrongdoers." These three verses were revealed about the Jews,…
7 3577 Daif Isnaad
Two men from the locality of Kindah came while AbuMas'ud al-Ansari was sitting n a circle. They said: Is there any man who decides between us. A man from the circle said: I,…
8 3578 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone desires the office of Judge and seeks help for it, he will be left to his own devices; if anyone does not desire it, nor does he seek help for it,…
9 3579 Sahih
"We will never employ or we shall not employ (the narrator is doubtful) in our work one who wants it."
10 3580 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed the one who bribes and the one who takes bribe.
11 3581 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: O people, if any of you is put in an administrative post on our behalf and conceals from us a needle or more, he is acting unfaithfully, and will bring it on…
12 3582 Hasan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent me to the Yemen as judge, and I asked: Messenger of Allah, are you sending me when I am young and have no knowledge of the duties of a judge? He…
13 3583 Sahih
"I am only a human being, and you bring your disputes to me, some perhaps being more eloquent in their plea than others, so that I give judgement on their behalf according to what…
14 3584 Daif
Two men came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who were disputing over their inheritance. They had no evidence except their claim. The Prophet (ﷺ) then said in a similar way.…
15 3585 Daif
I decide between you on the basis of my opinion in cases about which no revelation has been sent down to me.
16 3586 Daif Maqtu
Umar said while he was (sitting) on the pulpit: O people, the opinion from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was right, because Allah showed (i.e. inspired) him; but from us it is sheer…
17 3587 Sahih Maqtu
Abu 'Uthman al-Shami, whose name is Hariz bin 'Uthman, told me. I think I did not see anyone from Syria better than him.
18 3588 Daif Isnaad
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave the decision that the two adversaries should be made to sit in front of the judge.
19 3589 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: A judge should not decide between the two while he is in anger.
20 3590 Hasan Isnaad
The Qur'anic verse: "If they do come to thee, either judge between them, or decline to interfere" was abrogated by the verse: "So judge between them by what Allah hath revealed."
21 3591 Hasan Sahih Isnaad
When this verse was revealed: "If they do come to thee, either judge between them, or decline to interfere....If thou judge, judge in equity between them." Banu an-Nadir used to…
22 3592 Daif
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) intended to send Mu'adh ibn Jabal to the Yemen, he asked: How will you judge when the occasion of deciding a case arises? He replied: I…
23 3593 Daif
Mu'adh bin Jabal said that when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent him to the Yemen... He then narrated the rest of the tradition to the same effect.
24 3594 Hasan Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Conciliation between Muslims is permissible. The narrator Ahmad added in his version: "except the conciliation which makes lawful unlawful and unlawful…
25 3595 Sahih
"Ka'b!" He said: "At your service, Messenger of Allah." Thereupon he made a gesture with is hand indicating: Remit half the debt due to you. Ka'b said: "I shall do so, Messenger…
26 3596 Sahih
"Shall I not tell you of the best witnesses ? He is the one who produces his deposition or gives his evidence (the narrator is doubtful) before he is asked for it." 'Abd Allah bin…
27 3597 Sahih
We were sitting waiting for Abdullah ibn Umar who came out to us and sat. He then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone's intercession intervenes as an…
28 3598 Daif
"He who assits in a dispute unjustly deserves the anger of Allah, Most High.
29 3599 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered the morning prayer. When he finished it, he stood up and said three times: False witness has been made equivalent to attributing a partner to…
30 3600 Hasan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) rejected the testimony of a deceitful man and woman, of one who harbours rancour against his brother, and he rejected the testimony of one who is…
31 3601 Hasan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: The testimony of a deceitful man or woman, of an adulterer and adulteress, and of one who harbours rancour against his brother is not allowable.
32 3602 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The testimony of a nomad Arab against a townsman is not allowable.
33 3603 Sahih
"I married Umm Yahya daughter of Abu Ihab. A black woman entered upon us. She said that she had suckled both of us. So I came to the Prophet (ﷺ), and amentioned it to him. He…
34 3604 Sahih
Hammad bin Zaid looked at al-Harith bin 'Umair and said: He is from reliable narrators from Ayyub.
35 3605 Sahih Isnaad
A Muslim was about to die at Daquqa', but he did not find any Muslim to call him for witness to his will. So he called two men of the people of the Book for witness. Then they…
36 3606 Sahih
A man from Banu Sahm went out with Tamim ad-Dari and Adi ibn Badda'. The man of Banu Sahm died in the land where no Muslim was present. When they returned with his inheritance,…
37 3607 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) bought a horse from a Bedouin. The Prophet (ﷺ) took him with him to pay him the price of his horse. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) walked quickly and the Bedouin…
38 3608 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave a decision on the basis of an oath and a single witness.
39 3609 Sahih Maqtu
'Amr said: In the rights (of the people).
40 3610 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) gave a decision on the basis of an oath and a single witness. Abu Dawud said: Al-Rabi' bin Sulaiman al-Mu'adhdhin told me some additional words in this…
41 3611 Sahih
I then met Suhail and asked him about this tradition. He said: I do not know it. I said to him: Rabi'ah transmitted it to me from you. He said: If Rabi'ah transmitted it to you…
42 3612 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent an army to Banu al-Anbar. They captured them at Rukbah in the suburbs of at-Ta'if and drove them to the Holy Prophet (ﷺ). I rode hurriedly…
43 3613 Daif
Two men claimed a camel or an animal and brought the case to the Holy Prophet (ﷺ). But as neither of them produced any proof, the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) declared that they should share…
44 3614 Hasan
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Sa'id through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
45 3615 Daif
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Qatadah through a different chain of narrators to the effect that two men laid claim camel and both of them produced…
46 3616 Sahih
Two men disputed about some property and brought the case to the Holy Prophet (ﷺ), but neither of them could produce any proof. So the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) said: Cast lots about the…
47 3617 Sahih
When two men dislike the oath or like it,lots will be cost about it. Salamah said on the authority of Ma’mar who said: when the two are compelled to take an oath.
48 3618 Sahih
About an animal and they had no proof. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered to cast lots about the oath.
49 3619 Sahih
Ibn ‘Abbas wrote to me that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)had defendant should take an oath.
50 3620 Daif Isnaad
The Holy Prophet (ﷺ) said to a man whom he asked to take an oath: Swear by Allah except whom there is no god that you have nothing belonging to him, i.e. the plaintiff.
51 3621 Sahih
A Jew and I shared some land and he denied my right, so I took him to the holy prophet (ﷺ). The holy prophet (ﷺ) said to me: Have you have proof. I said: No. He then said to the…
52 3622 Sahih
A men from Kindah and a men from Hadramawt came to the Holy Prophet(ﷺ)with their dispute about a land in the Yemen. The Hadrami said: Messenger of Allah, the this (man)had usurped…
53 3623 Sahih
A man from Hadramaw and a man from kindah came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The hadrami said: Messenger of Allah, this (man) has seized land which belonged to my father.…
54 3624 Daif
The holy Prophet (ﷺ) said to the Jew : I adjure you by Allah Who sent down the Torah to Moses ! do you not find in the Torah(a rule about a man) who commits adultery. He then…
55 3625 Daif
A man from Muzainah who followed the knowledge and memorized it to me that sa’id b.al-Musayyab transmitted it. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition to the same effect.
56 3626 Sahih
The Holy Prophet (ﷺ) said to Ibn Suriya': I remind you by Allah Who saved you from the people of Pharaoh, made you cover the sea, gave you the shade of clouds, sent down to you…
57 3627 Daif
The Holy Prophet (ﷺ) gave a decision between two men, and the one against whom the decision was given turned away and said: For me Allah sufficeth, and He is the best dispenser of…
58 3628 Hasan
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Delay in payment on the part of one who possesses means makes it lawful to dishonour and punish him. Ibn al-Mubarak said that "dishonour" means that he may…
59 3629 Daif
I brought my debtor to the Holy Prophet (ﷺ). He said to me: Stick to him. He again said to me: O brother of Banu Tamim, what do you want to do with your prisoner.
60 3630 Hasan
Bahz bin Hakim, on his father's authority, said that his grandfather told that the Prophet (ﷺ) imprisoned a man on suspicion.
61 3631 Hasan Isnaad
(Ibn Qudamah's version has: His grandfather's brother or uncle reported:) - the narrator Mu'ammal said: - He (his grandfather Mu'awiyah) got up before the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) who was…
62 3632 Daif
I intended to go (on expedition) to Khaybar. So I came to the Holy Prophet (ﷺ), greeted him and said: I am intending to go to Khaybar. He said: When you come to my agent, you…
63 3633 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If you dispute over a pathway, leave the margin of seven yards.
64 3634 Sahih
When one of you asks permission for inserting a wooden peg in his wall, he should not prevent him. So they (the people) lowered down their heads. Then he (Abu Hurairah) said: What…
65 3635 Hasan
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone harms (others), Allah will harm him, and if anyone shows hostility to others, Allah will show hostility to him.
66 3636 Daif
Give it to him and you can have such and such, mentioning something with which he tried to please him, but he refused. He then said: You are a nuisance. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)…
67 3637 Sahih
A man disputed with az-Zubayr about streamlets in the lava plain which was irrigated by them. The Ansari said: Release the water and let it run, but az-Zubayr refused. The Holy…
68 3638 Sahih
Tha'labah heard his elders say that a man from the Quraysh had his share with Banu Qurayzah (in water). He brought the dispute to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about al-Mahzur, a…
69 3639 Hasan Sahih
'Amr bin Shu'aib on his father's authority said that his grandfather told that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) decided regarding the stream al-Mahzur that its water should be held back…
70 3640 Daif
Two men brought their dispute about the precincts of a palm-tree to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). According to a version of this tradition, he ordered to measure and it was…