On the authority of his grandfather, he said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: "Whoever practices medicine without being known for medical knowledge beforehand is liable."

4831 - Mahmud ibn Khalid informed me, saying: Al-Walid narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb.

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(1) Hasan with its witness, and this chain's narrators are trustworthy, except Shu'ayb — who is Ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As — for he is truthful, but Al-Walid — who is Ibn Muslim — practices tadlis of taswiyah, and he has explicitly stated his hearing — according to Abu Dawud — from Ibn Jurayj, and like this requires explicit statement of hearing at all levels of the chain. As for Ibn Jurayj — who is 'Abd al-Malik ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz — he is a mudallis, and he has used 'an'anah in it; indeed, he did not hear from 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb according to what Al-Bukhari and Al-Bayhaqi said. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under numbers (7005) and (7039), and in the second place it is from 'Amr ibn 'Uthman alone.

Abu Dawud (4586) and Ibn Majah (3466) also narrated it via multiple paths from Al-Walid ibn Muslim with this chain. Abu Dawud said after it: This was not narrated except by Al-Walid; it is not known whether it is authentic or not.

Al-Daraqutni said in "Al-Sunan" following (3439): None narrated it as connected from Ibn Jurayj except Al-Walid ibn Muslim, and others narrate it from Ibn Jurayj from 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb as mursal, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

It will come in the following narration from Mahmud ibn Khalid, from Al-Walid with it, but without his statement in the chain: "from his father."

It is supported by the hadith of some of the delegation who came to 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz, which is found in Abu Dawud (4587), and its chain's narrators are trustworthy, but it is mursal.

I say: But with our hadith joining the witness hadith, along with what more than one person has related — such as Al-Khattabi in "Ma'alim al-Sunan," Ibn 'Abd al-Barr in "Al-Istidhkar" (36858), and others — of consensus on their meaning, the hadith becomes hasan, Allah willing.

Al-Sindi said: His statement "whoever practices medicine" means: he undertakes medicine while not knowing it, "he is liable" for what he destroys through his medicine.

(2) After it in the copies there is an addition of "from his father," and the correct course is to delete it; Al-Mizzi said in "Al-Tuhfah" (8746): It is not in the hadith of Mahmud [meaning Ibn Khalid] "from his father." And Al-Bayhaqi said in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" 8/141: Mahmud ibn Khalid narrated it from Ibn Jurayj from 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his grandfather, =