Jami' at-Tirmidhi

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 623

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ، قَالَ بَعَثَنِي النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِلَى الْيَمَنِ فَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ آخُذَ مِنْ كُلِّ ثَلاَثِينَ بَقَرَةً تَبِيعًا أَوْ تَبِيعَةً وَمِنْ كُلِّ أَرْبَعِينَ مُسِنَّةً وَمِنْ كُلِّ حَالِمٍ دِينَارًا أَوْ عِدْلَهُ مَعَافِرَ ‏ .‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ ‏.‏ وَرَوَى بَعْضُهُمْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بَعَثَ مُعَاذًا إِلَى الْيَمَنِ فَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ ‏.‏ وَهَذَا أَصَحُّ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Mahmud ibn Ghaylan told us: Abd al-Razzaq informed us: Sufyan told us, from al-Amash, from Abu Wail, from Masruq, from Muadh ibn Jabal, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sent me to Yemen and instructed me to collect a one-year-old calf, male or female, for every thirty cattle; a two-year-old cow for every forty; and one dinar, or its value in Maafir cloth, from every adult male. Abu Isa said: This hadith is hasan. Some narrators transmitted it from Sufyan, from al-Amash, from Abu Wail, from Masruq, as a report from the Prophet saying that he sent Muadh to Yemen and instructed him to collect this. This latter version is sounder.