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ahmad:9872 – Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah And Ḥajjāj > Shuʿbah > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Abū al-Rabīʿiʿan Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] Narrated by the Prophet ﷺ, "There are four practices from the pre-Islamic era that will not be abandoned by my Ummah: insulting in lineage, wailing, selling the barren camel by stating it has been pregnant, and contagion. A man purchases the most seasoned camel, however, he keeps it among a hundred camels for trial. So, who is the first to do wrong in this case?"  

أحمد:٩٨٧٢ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ وَحَجَّاجٌ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ أَرْبَعٌ فِي أُمَّتِي مِنْ أَمْرِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ لَنْ يَدَعُوهُنَّ التَّطَاعُنُ فِي الْأَنْسَابِ وَالنِّيَاحَةُ وَمُطِرْنَا بِنَوْءِ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَالْعَدْوَى الرَّجُلُ يَشْتَرِي الْبَعِيرَ الْأَجْرَبَ فَيَجْعَلُهُ فِي مِائَةِ بَعِيرٍ فَتَجْرَبُ فَمَنْ أَعْدَى الْأَوَّلَ؟  

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tirmidhi:1001 – Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān > Abū Dāwud > Shuʿbah And al-Masʿūdī > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Abū al-Rabīʿ > Abū Hurayrah

"There are four matters in my nation that are from the matters of Jahiliyyah which the people will not leave: Wailing, slandering one's lineage, Al-Adwa - a camel gets mange, so one hundred camels get mange - but who gave the first camel mange? And Al-Anwa (saying): "We got rain because of this or that celestial positioning.'"  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan.
الترمذي:١٠٠١ – حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ أَنْبَأَنَا شُعْبَةُ وَالْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعٌ فِي أُمَّتِي مِنْ أَمْرِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ لَنْ يَدَعَهُنَّ النَّاسُ النِّيَاحَةُ وَالطَّعْنُ فِي الأَحْسَابِ وَالْعَدْوَى أَجْرَبَ بَعِيرٌ فَأَجْرَبَ مِائَةَ بَعِيرٍ مَنْ أَجْرَبَ الْبَعِيرَ الأَوَّلَ وَالأَنْوَاءُ مُطِرْنَا بِنَوْءِ كَذَا وَكَذَا  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ
ahmad:9365 – ʿAffān > Shuʿbah > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Abū al-Rabīʿ > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] On the authority of the Prophet ﷺ , he said: "There are four actions that will not leave my Ummah: refraining from slandering people's lineages, wailing, and calling for destruction. And if you have bought a tested or untested camel and you put it with a hundred camels, then someone tests the first [one]."  

أحمد:٩٣٦٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ أَنْبَأَنِي قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الرَّبِيعِ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ أَرْبَعٌ فِي أُمَّتِي لَنْ يَدَعُوهَا التَّطَاعُنُ فِي الْأَنْسَابِ وَالنِّيَاحَةُ وَمُطِرْنَا بِنَوْءِ كَذَا وَكَذَااشْتَرَيْتَ بَعِيرًا أَجْرَبَ أَوْ فَجَرِبَ فَجَعَلْتَهُ فِي مِائَةِ بَعِيرٍ فَجَرِبَتْ مَنْ أَعْدَى الْأَوَّلَ  

ahmad:7908 – Yazīd > al-Masʿūdī > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Abū al-Rabīʿ > Abū Hurayrah

"There are four matters in my nation that are from the matters of Jahiliyyah which the people will not leave: Wailing, slandering one's lineage, Al-Adwa - a camel gets mange, so one hundred camels get mange - but who gave the first camel mange? And Al-Anwa (saying): "We got rain because of this or that celestial positioning.'" (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1001)   

أحمد:٧٩٠٨ – حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ أَخْبَرَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعٌ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ لَنْ يَدَعَهُنَّ النَّاسُ التَّعْيِيرُ فِي الْأَحْسَابِ وَالنِّيَاحَةُ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ وَالْأَنْوَاءُ وَالْعَدْوَى وَأَجْرَبَ بَعِيرٌ فَأَجْرَبَ مِائَةً مَنْ أَجْرَبَ الْبَعِيرَ الْأَوَّلَ؟  

ahmad:10809 – ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd > al-Masʿūdī > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Abū al-Rabīʿ > Abū Hurayrah

"There are four matters in my nation that are from the matters of Jahiliyyah which the people will not leave: Wailing, slandering one's lineage, Al-Adwa - a camel gets mange, so one hundred camels get mange - but who gave the first camel mange? And Al-Anwa (saying): "We got rain because of this or that celestial positioning.'" (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1001)   

أحمد:١٠٨٠٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ حَدَّثَنَا الْمَسْعُودِيُّ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعٌ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ لَنْ يَدَعَهُنَّ النَّاسُ النِّيَاحَةُ عَلَى الْمَيِّتِ وَالطَّعْنُ فِي الْأَنْسَابِ وَالْأَنْوَاءُ يَقُولُ الرَّجُلُ سُقِينَا بِنَوْءِ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَالْإِعْدَاءُ أُجْرِبَ بَعِيرٌ فَأَجْرَبَ مِائَةً فَمَنْ أَعْدَى الْأَوَّلَ؟  

ahmad:10871 – ʿAbdullāh b. al-Walīd > Sufyān > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Madanī > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "There are four things that people do not leave from the customs of ignorance: lamentation, false oaths in transactions, saying 'we have been rained on by such and such star', and the belief in contagious diseases such as the camel's disease, so I test a hundred (camels), so who will test the first hundred?"  

أحمد:١٠٨٧١ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ مَرْثَدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الرَّبِيعِ الْمَدَنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَرْبَعٌ لَا يَدَعُهَا النَّاسُ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ النِّيَاحَةُ وَالتَّعَايُرُ فِي الْأَحْسَابِ وَقَوْلُهُمْ سُقِينَا بِنَوْءِ كَذَا وَالْعَدْوَى جَرِبَ بَعِيرٌ فَأَجْرَبَ مِئَةً فَمَنْ أَجْرَبَ الْأَوَّلَ؟  

ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ الْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ لَمْ يُرِدْ بِهَذَا الْعَدَدِ الْمَحْصُورِ الَّذِي ذَكَرْنَاهُ نَفْيًا عَمَّا وَرَاءَهُ مِنَ الْعَدَدِ

ibnhibban:3142 – ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī > Muḥammad b. Bashhār > Abū ʿĀmir > Sufyān > Sulaymān > Dhakwān > Abū Hurayrah

[Machine] From the Prophet ﷺ , he said: "There are four characteristics of ignorance that people will not abandon: wailing, cursing each other's lineages, boasting about ancestors, and seeking omens. We have been commanded with 'An-Naw' (a form of divination), and contagious diseases spread like an infected camel in a herd. So who is more unjust than the first one?"  

ابن حبّان:٣١٤٢ – أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ * حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ * حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ ذَكْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «أَرْبَعٌ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ لَنْ يَدَعَهَا النَّاسُ النِّيَاحَةُ وَالتَّعَايُرُ أَوِ التَّعَايُرُ فِي الْأَنْسَابِ وَمُطِرْنَا بِنَوْءِ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَالْعَدْوَى جَرِبَ بَعِيرٌ فِي مِئَةِ بَعِيرٍ فَمَنْ أَعْدَى الْأَوْلَ؟ »  

suyuti:2885a –

"There are four matters in my nation that are from the matters of Jahiliyyah which the people will not leave: Wailing, slandering one's lineage, Al-Adwa - a camel gets mange, so one hundred camels get mange - but who gave the first camel mange? And Al-Anwa (saying): "We got rain because of this or that celestial positioning.'" (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1001)   

السيوطي:٢٨٨٥a –

"أربَعٌ مِنْ أمرِ الجاهلَيةِ، لم يَدعهُنَّ النّاسُ: الطّعنُ في الأنسابِ، والنِّياحةُ على الميتِ، والأنواءُ: مُطِرنا بنوْءِ كذا وكذا، والإِعداءُ: جَرِبَ بعيرٌ فأجربَ مائةَ بعيرٍ، فمنْ أَجربَ البعيرَ الأولَ؟ ".  

[ط] الطيالسي [حم] أحمد [ت] الترمذي حسن، وابن جرير، [ت] الترمذي عن أبي هريرة