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Sunan Ibn Majah 2367

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) say: “The testimony of a Bedouin against a town-dweller is not permissible.”

Abu Hurayrahnarrated it
Sahihgraded sahih by Al-Albani
8names in the chain
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حَدَّثَنَا حَرْمَلَةُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي نَافِعُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنِ ابْنِ الْهَادِ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «لَا تَجُوزُ شَهَادَةُ بَدَوِيٍّ عَلَى صَاحِبِ قَرْيَةٍ»

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) say: “The testimony of a Bedouin against a town-dweller is not permissible.”

আবূ হুরায়রা (রাঃ) থেকে বর্ণিত। তিনি রাসূলুল্লাহ সাল্লাল্লাহু আলাইহি ওয়াসাল্লাম কে বলতে শুনেছেনঃ নগরবাসীর পক্ষে গ্রামবাসীর সাক্ষ্য গ্রহণ যোগ্য নয়।

ابوہریرہ رضی اللہ عنہ کہتے ہیں کہ انہوں نے رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کو فرماتے سنا: بدوی ( دیہات میں رہنے والے ) کی گواہی شہری ( بستی میں رہنے والے ) کے خلاف جائز نہیں ۔

Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Harmalah bin Yahya] berkata, telah menceritakan kepada kami [Abdullah bin Wahb] berkata, telah mengabarkan kepadaku [Nafi' bin Yazid] dari [Ibnu Al Had] dari [Muhammad bin Amru bin 'Atha] dari ['Atha bin Yasar] dari [Abu Hurairah] bahwasanya ia pernah mendengar Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: "Tidak boleh persaksian orang badui atas penduduk desa

Ebû Hureyre (r.a.)'den rivayet edildiğine göre, kendisi Resulullah (Sallallahu Aleyhi ve Sellem)'den şu hadîsi işitmiştir: «Bir bedevinin bir köy sahibi aleyhinde şâhidliği caiz değildir.» EBU DAVUD HADİSİ VE İZAH İÇİN TIKLA

Sunan Ibn Majah 2367, Book 13, The Chapters on Rulings, Hadith 60. 1 min read

What it means

This Hadīth illustrates one of the impediments to the acceptance of testimony; a desert dweller may not testify concerning a city or town dweller. The reason is that the testimony is doubtful; for why should a person who lives away and does not usually know the situation in town testify to something that happens there? Also, the reason could be that the desert people are usually rough and ignorant, and they might not take the testimony seriously, for they do not know the standards of preserving people's rights.

This was the view of Imām Mālik and Imām Ahmad. However, the majority of scholars held that the testimony of desert people is accepted due to the general indications of evidence. They interpreted this Hadīth to be referring to the desert people whose trustworthiness and reliability is not verified.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Ibn Majah back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Ibn MajahCompiler, died 273 AH
  2. 2Harmalah ibn YahyaTold us, Fourth generation, died 243 AH
  3. 3Abdullah ibn WahbTold us, Third generation, died 197 AH
  4. 4Nafi ibn YazidInformed me, Third generation, died 168 AH
  5. 5Yazid ibn Abdullah ibn UsamahFrom, Successor, died 139 AH
  6. 6Muhammad ibn AmrFrom, Successor, died 120 AH
  7. 7Ata ibn YasarFrom, Successor, died 94 AH
  8. 8Abu HurayrahFrom, Companion, died 57 AH

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