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Is this hadith authentic? "Only an honorable man treats women with honor and integrity...."
Lets start with what is authentic, Quran says about the marital relationship addressing husbands:
... And live with them in kindness. ... (4:19)
And addressing the wives or women:
...And due to ...
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Authenticity of statement attributed to Abu Bakr: "If I had one foot in paradise, I would still fear Allah's deception"
This narration is not found in any of the authentic collections of Hadeeth.
From the answer to this question on IslamQA:
ما يذكره بعض الناس عن أبي بكر رضي الله عنه - ويحكيه بعضهم عن عمر رضي الله ...
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Was the body of Prophet Muhammad SAW decomposing?
Well refuting or answering questions of anti-Islam or anti-sunnah etc. websites is not the purpose of this site. I'm answering this with a focus on source identification or reference-request and check ...
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What is the authenticity of the hadith "if you eat meat for 40 days, those qualities will come within you"?
The exact words that you quoted are not in any Sunni book that I have come across. However, a hadith attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Tālib — not to the Prophet — was documented by Muhammad al-Munawi in ...
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Is this hadith about remedies of every disease sahih?
The hadith is basically correct in its meaning, similar authentic reports may be found elsewhere, for example:
ما أنزل الله داء إلا أنزل له شفاء
There is no disease that Allah has created, except ...
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What is the authenticity of the hadith that says "women were created for nothing but evil"?
The hadith is as follows:
قالت عائشة: دخل علي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بسرف وقد نفست وأنا منكسة، فقال لي: " أنفست؟ " فقلت: نعم، يا رسول الله، ولا أحسب النساء خلقن إلا للشر، فقال: " ...
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Is the hadith "Allah has chosen the Arabs above others" reliable, and how does it not contradict "no virtue for an Arab over a non-Arab"?
The hadith of the farewell pilgrimage is strong and well known, it is also in agreement with the Quran:
يا أيها الناس إنا خلقناكم من ذكر وأنثى وجعلناكم شعوبا وقبائل لتعارفوا إن أكرمكم عند الله أتقاكم
...
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Authenticity of Kanz al-Ummal?
Anyone who have basic knowledge of hadees science knows that their are many types of collections of ahadees from which sahih is the type in which the collector/author tries his best to make sure that ...
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Did the Prophet (saw) say "acquire knowledge, it enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong..."?
The quote you provided seems to be adopted in part from a weak hadith that can be found in Hilyat al-Awliyā' (Arabic: حلية الأولياء وطبقات الأصفياء), vol. 1, pp. 238-239, as documented by Abu Nuaym ...
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Is the hadith of the pond of Khumm authentic? If so, what is the sunni view on it?
The hadith of the pond of Khumm (Arabic: حدیث غدیر خم) has multiple versions, and a multitude of interpretations based on these different versions. The Sunni view is that the hadith is not an ...
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Hadith: I don't eat until I'm hungry
This statement doesn't appear in any sahih book as it is even doubtful if it was a hadith at all. The only author who apparently attributed it to the prophet () was Burhan ad-Dyn al-Halabi (from ...
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Source and authentication of "Jihad Will Be Performed Until The Coming of the Hour"
Its meaning is correct and supported in many other ways as well.
From the Koran:
وَقَاتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّىٰ لَا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَيَكُونَ الدِّينُ كُلُّهُ
لِلَّـهِ
And fight them until there ...
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Did the Prophet (SAW) have a sex slave?
Having sex with a slave that one owns is permissible in Islam as they are "those your right hand possesses" as mentioned in the verses 23:6 and 4:3. The relation is not much different from a ...
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Is the hadith with the poem recited by Abbas after Tabuk authentic?
A first analysis of the sources
You've done a huge work by gathering all these different sources!
Here a short first feedback:
As you mentioned the 5th line seemingly only appears in the book of as-...
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Hadith regarding a donkey that came to the prophet S.A.W
The hadith of a donkey reporting its owner is compiled in the book of ibn Hebban called the scarred people " المجروحين " (2/328) (which means their narration is not thrusworthy) while quoting Muhammad ...
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Is the hadith "two things of your world were made lovely to me, perfume and women" authentic?
The Hadeeth below is graded Saheeh (authentic).
Hadeeth in question
حَدَّثَنِي الشَّيْخُ الإِمَامُ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ النَّسَائِيُّ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عِيسَى الْقُومَسِيُّ، ...
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Is this hadith about Muhammad embracing and kissing Zayd authentic?
The hadith is da'īf (weak). The chain of narration of the hadith you are asking about is:
The Prophet ﷺ
'Ā'isha bint Abu Bakr (Arabic: عائشة)
'Urwa ibn az-Zubayr (Arabic: عروة بن الزبير)
Mohammad ibn ...
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Why is the quran as well as some hadiths considered perfectly preserved while other hadiths are not?
As you say, there's verses of the Qur'an which say it's protected by Allah:
Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.
Qur'an 15:9 (see also Qur'an 41:42)
Thus, ...
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Is Al badi a name of Allah ?
There is a difference of opinions on whether Al-Badee' (Arabic: البديع) is one of the names of Allah. The name generally means the Originator.
The majority of scholars do not consider Al-Badee' to be ...
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Is there a hadith "whoever shoots at a living creature for sport is cursed" and is it authentic?
Yes, there is an authentic hadith to that effect in Sahih Muslim in the book of hunting, slaughter, and what may be eaten:
حَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو ...
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How reliable is the quote "70 sins between you and [Allah] is much lighter than... just one sin between you and the people" by Sufyan al-Thawri?
Known sources of this statement
This statement was attributed to Sufyan a-Thawri by abu Laith as-Smarqandi in his Tanbeeh al-Ghafilyn bi ahadithi sayyid al-Mursalynتنبيه الغافلين بأحاديث سيد الأنبياء ...
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How reliable is the hadith "the woman is Awrah"?
The hadith is reliable since it has its authentic (sahīh, Arabic: صحيح) chains, albeit not through Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1173. To understand where the Islam Q&A article comes from, one has to ...
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Is the Hadith about the ink of the scholar being holier than the blood of the martyr authentic?
The hadith you are inquiring about is:
مداد حبر العالم أقدس من دم الشهيد
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr.
I could not find the hadith in Al-Jāmi' as Saghīr, nor ...
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Sunan ibn Majah & suckling
On the authenticity of the hadith
Basically the matter which creates confusion in this narratiion is primarily is the addition:
... and a tame sheep came in and ate it
This addition was compiled ...
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What does Umar's RA statement "marriage is like slavery" mean?
On the authenticity of the narration
You should know that strictly speaking a narration is only a hadith (meaning a statement or act made by our prophet ()) when it is (correctly) attributed to the ...
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Is this hadith about remedies of every disease sahih?
Just as an addition to the given answer.
There are basically two reasons as to why scholars declared the hadith from Sunan abi Dawod as da'if: (I've add a transliteration/translation of the full ...
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Is this hadith about women emerging from home authentic?
The hadith has been recorded by Tabarani and has been weakened because of the weakness of the transmitter سوار بن مصعب. See e.g. Silsilah al-Da’eefah 1781.
The meaning however is correct. Generally ...
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What are the authentic supplications (A'dyiah) and rememberances (Adhkar) at Fajr, A'sr and Maghrib?
When the Morning arrives (the true dawn) or Evening (A'sr):
The Prophet (ﷺ) would say in the morning: "We have entered a new day upon the natural religion of Islam, the word of sincere devotion, ...
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Are there narration chains for the coccyx/tailbone hadith that don't go through Abu Hurairah?
Yes there are other narrators:
In al-Mustadrak of al-Hakim it is narrated on the authority of abu Sa'id al-Khudri أبي سعيد الخدري with the wording:
يأكل التراب كل شيء من الإنسان إلا عجب ذنبه " قيل ...
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Is this hadith authentic? "Alcohol itself is prohibited and intoxication in every other beverage."
The most authentic hadith including parts of your quote is this from sahih Muslim which is quoted in "al-Hidayah fi takhriji ahadith al-Bidyah الهداية في تخريج أحاديث البداية" by the hafidh Muhammad ...
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