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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (The blood of a Muslim is not lawful except in one of three cases), and this hadith is in "al-Sahihayn" with an addition.

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The questioner : Here is the hadith of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
It is not permissible to shed the blood of a Muslim except in one of three cases لا يحلُّ دمُ امرئٍ مسلم إلا بإحدى ثلاث
Sunan an-Nasa'i 4721Sahih (Darussalam)
, this hadith is found in several places in the books of the Sunnah, but with this same wording without the addition.

The Shaykh : But what?

The questioner : With this wording without the addition, the hadith has an addition; it is the hadith of Abdullah ibn Mas'ud with the addition:
It is not permissible to take the life of a Muslim who bears testimony (to the fact that there is no god but Allah, and I am the Messenger of Allah لا يحلُّ دم امرئٍ مسلم يشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأنِّي رسول الله
Sahih Muslim 1676a
, so when tracing the hadith, should this hadith be attributed, for example, to the books of the Sunnah that mentioned this hadith with the same wording, or with the other addition? Because if you mention the addition, it is found in "al-Sahihayn," and without the addition, it is in other than "al-Sahihayn." In the tracing, should it be indicated, for example, that the hadith with the addition... is in "al-Sahihayn" and others?

The Shaykh : That is, you attribute the hadith to a group, some of whom narrated it with the addition, and some narrated the original without the addition. Here there are two schools of thought among hadith scholars and those who trace hadiths. The first permits this kind of tracing, so it is said: "It was narrated by so-and-so, so-and-so, and so-and-so," even if the wording is not in all of them, and even if the addition is not in all of them. The other school, which is undoubtedly the most advisable and precise, is to specify that such-and-such an addition is not with so-and-so and so-and-so.

The questioner : With this wording?

The Shaykh: Yes.
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