Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

What is the authenticity of the hadith: "May Allah curse the one who cuts down a sidr tree," and the hadith: "Whoever cuts down a sidr tree, Allah will direct his head to the Fire," and the hadith

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : Your Eminence, may Allah forgive you, there are some hadiths, I mean, that the general public circulate, such as:
May Allah curse the one who cuts down a sidr tree لعن الله قاطع سدرة
.

The Shaykh : What?

The questioner :
May Allah curse the one who cuts down a sidr tree لعن الله قاطع سدرة
This hadith, and the second hadith:
Whoever cuts down a sidr tree, Allah will direct his head to the Fire من قطع سدرة سدد الله رأسه إلى النار
and the third hadith:
Whoever wants to curse himself, let him lie من أراد أن يلعن نفسه فليكذب
.

The Shaykh : So?

The questioner : Let him lie, what is the authenticity of these hadiths?

The Shaykh : None of them are authentic.

The questioner : All of it?

The Shaykh : None of them are authentic, but it has been prohibited to cut down sidr trees if people benefit from them for shade, such as if they serve as a resting place for travelers or the like. This has been prohibited because of the removal of the benefits that Muslims derive from them, whereas the wordings mentioned are not authentic.
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

Similar fatwas