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Sunan Abu Dawud 5258

Chapter: Regarding killing snakes

Authentic 4 scholars’ grades Sunan Abu Dawud 5258

حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ، بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ مُخْتَصَرًا قَالَ ‏"‏ فَلْيُؤْذِنْهُ ثَلاَثًا فَإِنْ بَدَا لَهُ بَعْدُ فَلْيَقْتُلْهُ فَإِنَّهُ شَيْطَانٌ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Ibn 'Ajilan through a different chain of narrators briefly. This version has:

He should give it a warning three times. If it appears to him after that, he should kill it, for it is a devil.

Reported by Abu Dawud (No. 5258).

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ScholarGradeApplies toWork
Al-Albanid. 1420 AH AuthenticHasan Sahih حسن صحيح The hadith No. 5258
Shu'ayb al-Arna'utd. 1438 AH AuthenticSahih The hadith No. 5258
Zubair Ali Zaid. 1435 AH AuthenticSahih Muslim (2236) The hadith No. 5258
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamidd. 1392 AH AuthenticHasan Sahih The hadith No. 5258
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