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malik:36-5 – Mālik > Balaghah > ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

Malik related to me that Umar ibn al-Khattab said, "The testimony of some one known to bear a grudge or to be unreliable is not accepted."  

مالك:٣٦-٥ – وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ

قَالَ لاَ تَجُوزُ شَهَادَةُ خَصْمٍ وَلاَ ظَنِينٍ  

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bayhaqi:20861 – Abū Aḥmad al-Mihrajānī > Abū Bakr b. Jaʿfar al-Muzakkī > Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Bukayr > Mālik > Balaghah > ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

[Machine] Witnessing of a defendant or a suspicious person is not acceptable.  

البيهقي:٢٠٨٦١ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الْمِهْرَجَانِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْمُزَكِّي ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ثنا ابْنُ بُكَيْرٍ ثنا مَالِكٌ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ قَالَ

لَا تَجُوزُ شَهَادَةُ خَصْمٍ وَلَا ظَنِينٍ  

suyuti:24614a –
Translation not available.

  

السيوطي:٢٤٦١٤a –

"لا تَجُوزُ شَهادَةُ خَصْمٍ ولا ظِنِّين، واليمين عَلَى المدَّعَى عَليهِ".  

[د] أبو داود في مراسيله، [ق] البيهقى في السنن عن طلحة بن عبد الله بن عوف مرسلًا