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سنن ابي داود
Abu Dawud
كتاب البيوعCommercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)
باب فِي اجْتِنَابِ الشُّبُهَاتِChapter: Regarding Avoiding Things That One Doubts.
Hadith 3330
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى الرَّازِيُّ ، أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى ، حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّا ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ الشَّعْبِيِّ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ النُّعْمَانَ بْنَ بَشِيرٍ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، يَقُولُ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ ، قَالَ : " وَبَيْنَهُمَا مُشَبَّهَاتٌ ، لَا يَعْلَمُهَا كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ ، فَمَنِ اتَّقَى الشُّبُهَاتِ اسْتَبْرَأَ عِرْضَهُ وَدِينَهُ ، وَمَنْ وَقَعَ فِي الشُّبُهَاتِ وَقَعَ فِي الْحَرَامِ .
Narrated Al-Numan bin Bashir: I heard Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: But between them are certain doubtful things which many people do not recognize. He who guards against doubtful things keeps his religion and his honor blameless, but he who falls into doubtful things falls into what is unlawful.
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
➊
Those things which are unlawful (haram) due to certain reasons,
and for which there is also a possibility of being lawful (halal) due to other reasons, and the matter is not clear and explicit,
then one should abstain from them, lest one falls into committing something haram.
➋
If a person does not avoid doubtful matters, then the result of such audacity is
that one day or another, he will fall into clear haram.
➌
Muhammad Salih al-Hashimi narrates from Imam Abu Dawud:
I resided in Tarsus for twenty years and wrote the Musnad; I wrote four thousand hadiths.
Then I reflected and saw that their foundation rests upon only four hadiths.
The first among them is this very hadith:
“The lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Faith, Hadith 52; Sahih Muslim, Book of Musaqat, Hadith 1599).
The second: “Actions are only by intentions” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Revelation, Hadith 1).
The third: “Indeed, Allah is pure and accepts only that which is pure” (Sahih Muslim, Book of Slaughtering, Hadith 1015).
And the fourth is:
“From the excellence of a person’s Islam is his leaving that which does not concern him” (Jami‘ al-Tirmidhi, Book of Asceticism, Hadith 2317).
➊
Those things which are unlawful (haram) due to certain reasons,
and for which there is also a possibility of being lawful (halal) due to other reasons, and the matter is not clear and explicit,
then one should abstain from them, lest one falls into committing something haram.
➋
If a person does not avoid doubtful matters, then the result of such audacity is
that one day or another, he will fall into clear haram.
➌
Muhammad Salih al-Hashimi narrates from Imam Abu Dawud:
I resided in Tarsus for twenty years and wrote the Musnad; I wrote four thousand hadiths.
Then I reflected and saw that their foundation rests upon only four hadiths.
The first among them is this very hadith:
“The lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Faith, Hadith 52; Sahih Muslim, Book of Musaqat, Hadith 1599).
The second: “Actions are only by intentions” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Revelation, Hadith 1).
The third: “Indeed, Allah is pure and accepts only that which is pure” (Sahih Muslim, Book of Slaughtering, Hadith 1015).
And the fourth is:
“From the excellence of a person’s Islam is his leaving that which does not concern him” (Jami‘ al-Tirmidhi, Book of Asceticism, Hadith 2317).
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 3330
