Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى، قَالَ قَرَأْتُ عَلَى مَالِكٍ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ، كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ لاَ يُمْنَعُ فَضْلُ الْمَاءِ لِيُمْنَعَ بِهِ الْكَلأُ
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Abdul Hamid Siddiqui
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:Excess water must not be withheld so that the growth of herbage may be hindered
Chain of Narrators (Isnad)
The chain is ordered from the source of the saying to the compiler: 1 = the speaker/first transmitter, the following links those who passed it on in turn, and at the bottom Muslim who compiled the work. Click a narrator to list every hadith in which he appears; the number in parentheses is how many hadiths across the collections on this site the narrator appears in.
This hadith is transmitted through 2 separate chains (turuq); each chain is shown separately.
Path 1
- 1Abu Hurairah (2252 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2'Abdur Rahman bin Harmaz al-A'araj (368 hadiths) an
- 3Ebü'z-Zinâd (272 hadiths) an
- 4Imam Maalik (1002 hadiths) kâle
- 5Yahyâ b. Yahyâ (711 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 6Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 5 narrators.
Path 2
- 1Abu Hurairah (2252 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2'Abdur Rahman bin Harmaz al-A'araj (368 hadiths) an
- 3Ebü'z-Zinâd (272 hadiths) an
- 4Leys b. Sa'd (702 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 5Qutayba bin Sa'id bin Jamil (992 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 6Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 5 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.
