Abu Masud al-Badri

أبو مسعود البدري

A Companion of Badr who transmits 'what people have retained of the speech of the first prophethood: if you feel no shame, do as you wish', the twentieth hadith of al-Nawawi's Forty, transmitted by al-Bukhari through Mansur ibn al-Mu'tamir from Rib'i ibn Hirash from him; its chain was disputed — some said Rib'i from Hudhayfa — but most of the memorising critics, al-Bukhari, Abu Zur'a and al-Daraqutni among them, ruled for the Abu Masud version, corroborated by Masruq's route from him.

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Haya' (modesty and shame)

The disposition that restrains a person from ugly deeds; in Abu Masud al-Badri's hadith in al-Bukhari: 'what people have retained of the speech of the first prophethood: if you feel no shame, do as you wish' — 'the speech of the first prophethood' meaning, for Ibn Rajab, what was handed down from the earlier prophets and inherited by people generation after generation until it reached the first of this community, one route adding 'nothing of the speech of the first prophethood reached people except this'; 'if you feel no shame, do as you wish' has two readings — not an imperative but censure: either threat and warning like 'do as you wish, for He sees what you do' and the hadith 'whoever sells wine, let him then carve up the pigs', the choice of a group including Abu al-Abbas Tha'lab, or an imperative in form carrying a statement — whoever lacks shame does whatever he wishes, shame being the only check on ugly deeds, like 'whoever lies about me deliberately, let him take his seat in the Fire' — the choice of Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam, Ibn Qutayba and Muhammad ibn Nasr al-Marwazi, Abu Dawud reporting from Ahmad what indicates the same.

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Haya' (modesty and shame)