Musnad Abi Ya'la 3718
✧ Abu Sufyan from Anas
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حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ الْكِنْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَهْلٍ يُوسُفُ بْنُ عَطِيَّةَ الصَّفَّارُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ثَابِتًا يَقُولُ: قَالَ أَنَسٌ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
مَثَلُ أُمَّتِي مَثَلُ الْمَطَرِ لَا يُدْرَى أَوَّلُهُ خَيْرٌ أَوْ آخِرُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Bishr b. al-Walīd al-Kindī
- Abū Sahl Yūsuf b. ʿAṭiyyah al-Ṣaffār
- Thābit
- Anas
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The example of my ummah is like the rain; it is not known whether its beginning is better or its end.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسناد ضعيف
in مسند أبي يعلى الموصلي, p. 3718
Other narrations of this report
Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2869Musnad Ahmad 12327Musnad Ahmad 12461Musnad Ahmad 18881Musnad al-Bazzar 1426Musnad al-Bazzar 3523
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 90 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابيقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 122 AHثَابِتًاثقةسمعت
- حدثناabandoned (matrūk)d. 187 AH
- حدثناd. 238 AH
- d. 307 AH
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