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ibnmajah:3776Hishām b. ʿAmmār > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > Ibn ʿUmar

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade two to converse (privately) to the exclusion of a third."  

ابن ماجة:٣٧٧٦حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ يَتَنَاجَى اثْنَانِ دُونَ الثَّالِثِ  


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abudawud:4851[Chain 1] Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Abū Muʿāwiyah / Ibn Salamah > al-Aʿmash [Chain 2] Musaddad > ʿĪsá b. Yūnus > al-Aʿmash > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh

Two persons should not talk privately ignoring the third, for that will grieve him.  

أبو داود:٤٨٥١حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سَلَمَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ يَنْتَجِي اثْنَانِ دُونَ الثَّالِثِ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يُحْزِنُهُ  

malik:56-14Mālik > Nāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

Malik related to me from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Two must not converse secretly to the exclusion of another person."  

مالك:٥٦-١٤وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ إِذَا كَانَ ثَلاَثَةٌ فَلاَ يَتَنَاجَى اثْنَانِ دُونَ وَاحِدٍ  

ahmad:6057Yūnus > Layth > Nāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

[Machine] The translation of the given sentence is:

"The Messenger of Allahﷺ used to forbid when there were three individuals that two should hold a private conversation excluding the third."  

أحمد:٦٠٥٧حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ عَنْ نَافِعٍ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ قَالَ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَنْهَى إِذَا كَانَ ثَلَاثَةُ نَفَرٍ أَنْ يَتَنَاجَى اثْنَانِ دُونَ الثَّالِثِ  

ذِكْرُ الزَّجْرِ عَنْ تَنَاجِي الْمُسْلِمَيْنِ بِحَضْرَةِ ثَالِثٍ مَعَهُمَا

ibnhibban:580al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Wahbb. Baqiyyah > Khālid > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Isḥāq > ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār > Ibn ʿUmar

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade two to converse (privately) to the exclusion of a third." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3776)   

ابن حبّان:٥٨٠أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا وَهْبُ بْنُ بَقِيَّةَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا خَالِدٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا يَتَنَاجَى اثْنَانِ دُونَ الثَالِثٍ»  

tabarani:13104Abū al-Zinbāʿ Rawḥ b. al-Faraj > Ḥāmid b. Yaḥyá > Sufyān > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad > Ibn ʿUmar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Two should not hold a secret conversation excluding the third."  

الطبراني:١٣١٠٤حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنْبَاعِ رَوْحُ بْنُ الْفَرَجِ ثنا حَامِدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَا يَتَنَاجَى اثْنَانِ دُونَ الثَّالِثِ»