مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: From the Musnad of Abū Mālik Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī (may Allah be pleased with him)
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مُسْنَدُ أَبِي مَالِكٍ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 216
Sahl ibn Saʿd (may Allah be pleased with him) reported:
A man peeped through a hole into one of the private apartments of the Prophet ﷺ, while the Prophet ﷺ had a head-scratcher in his hand with which he was scratching his head. He said, “Had I known that you were looking, I would have struck your eye with it. The permission to enter has only been prescribed because of the [protection of the] gaze.”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 216
حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ: اطَّلَعَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ جُحْرٍ فِي حُجْرَةِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَمَعَهُ مِدْرًى يَحُكُّ بِهِ رَأْسَهُ، فَقَالَ: «لَوْ أَعْلَمُكَ تَنْظُرُ لَطَعَنْتُ بِهِ عَيْنَكَ. إِنَّمَا جُعِلَ الِاسْتِئْذَانُ مِنْ أَجْلِ الْبَصَرِ».
| Grade: | Ṣaḥīḥ |
Chain: Aḥmad → Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah → [Muḥammad ibn Shihāb] al-Zuhrī → Sahl ibn Saʿd (may Allah be pleased with him) → the Prophet ﷺ. Rijāl: (1) Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah ibn Mīmūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī (d. 198 AH); thiqa ḥāfiẓ faqīh imām. (2) Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī (d. 124 AH): Thiqa mutqin faqīh ḥāfiẓ; a foremost scholar of his generation in ḥadīth and religious law. (3) Sahl ibn Saʿd: Companion (Ṣaḥābī); Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Sāʿidī; the last Companion to die in Madinah, c. 88–91 AH. Takhrīj: Aḥmad (5/330); al-Bukhārī in Kitāb al-Diyāt (6901) and Kitāb al-Istithnāʾ (6242); Muslim in Kitāb al-Ādāb (2156). The ḥadīth is a foundational text for the Islamic ruling on seeking permission to enter (istiʾdhān): the primary purpose of knocking or calling before entering is to protect the private space and person of those inside from uninvited visual access. Scholars have derived from this that deliberately looking into someone’s home without permission may in certain circumstances justify physical self-defense.
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