Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 Allah. He then recited: "So avoid the abomination of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 dependent on a family, and he allowed his testimony...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The testimony of a nomad Arab against a townsman is not allowable.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
"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 turned away from me....
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
Hammad bin Zaid looked at al-Harith bin 'Umair and said: He is from reliable narrators from Ayyub.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 came to...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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, they (the heirs) did not find...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 walked slowly. The people stopped the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave a decision on the basis of an oath and a single witness.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
'Amr said: In the rights (of the people).
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 tradition: Al-Shafi'i told me from 'Abd al-'Aziz. I then mentioned...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 from me, then retransmit...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 to the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) and said: Peace...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 it equally.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Sa'id through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 witness so the prophet (peace be upon him) divided it...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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 oath whatever it may be, whether they...
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
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.
Sunan Abi Dawud
The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)
About an animal and they had no proof. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered to cast lots about the oath.