Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 4791

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، عَنْ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتِ اسْتَأْذَنَ رَجُلٌ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ ‏"‏ بِئْسَ ابْنُ الْعَشِيرَةِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ أَوْ ‏"‏ بِئْسَ رَجُلُ الْعَشِيرَةِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ ثُمَّ قَالَ ‏"‏ ائْذَنُوا لَهُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ أَلاَنَ لَهُ الْقَوْلَ فَقَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَلَنْتَ لَهُ الْقَوْلَ وَقَدْ قُلْتَ لَهُ مَا قُلْتَ ‏.‏ قَالَ ‏"‏ إِنَّ شَرَّ النَّاسِ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مَنْزِلَةً يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ مَنْ وَدَعَهُ - أَوْ تَرَكَهُ - النَّاسُ لاِتِّقَاءِ فُحْشِهِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Musaddad narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from Ibn al-Munkadir, from ‘Urwah, from ‘A’ishah, who said: A man asked permission to see the Prophet (ﷺ), and he said, ‘What a bad man of the clan,’ or, ‘What a bad member of the clan.’ Then he said, ‘Let him enter.’ When the man came in, the Prophet spoke gently to him. ‘A’ishah said, ‘Messenger of Allah, you spoke gently to him, even though you had said what you said about him.’ He replied, ‘The person worst in rank before Allah on the Day of Resurrection is one whom people abandon—or leave alone—to avoid his obscenity.’