Musnad Ahmad 1063

Translation

✧ Some people in Yemen dug a pit for a lion, and it fell into it. The people crowded around it, and a man fell into it. He grabbed another man, then that man grabbed another, until there were four of them in it. They disputed about that until some of them took up weapons against each other. Ali said to them: 'Would you kill two hundred (people) because of four? But I will judge among you with a judgment that, if you accept it, (settles the matter): For the first, a quarter of the blood-money; for the second, a third of the blood-money; for the third, half of the blood-money; and for the fourth, the full blood-money.' But they did not accept his judgment, so they came to the Prophet ﷺ, and he said: 'I will judge among you with a judgment.' He was informed of Ali's judgment, and he approved it.

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• ابن الملقن

  وحنش هذا هو ابن المعتمر وبعضهم يقول ابن ربيعة تابعي روى عنه سماك والحكم بن عتيبة قال البخاري يتكلمون في حديثه وأورد له في ضعفائه هذا الحديث وقال النسائي ليس بالقوي وقال ابن حبان لا يحتج به ينفرد عن علي بأشياء لا تشبه حديث الثقات وقال البيهقي إنه غير محتج به وقال أبو حاتم كان عبدا صالحا وليس أراهم يحتجون بحديثه ووثقه أبو داود وقال البزار في حديثه هذا لا نعلمه يروي إلا عن علي ولا نعلم له طريقا عن علي إلا هذا الطريق

  machine translationThis Ḥanash is Ibn al-Muʿtamir, and some say Ibn Rabīʿah. He was a Follower (tābiʿī); Simāk and al-Ḥakam b. ʿUtaybah narrated from him. al-Bukhārī said: "They speak about his ḥadīth," and he included this ḥadīth of his in his book of weak narrators (ḍuʿafāʾ). al-Nasāʾī said: "He is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī)." Ibn Ḥibbān said: "He is not to be used as evidence; he is alone in narrating from ʿAlī things that do not resemble the ḥadīth of the trustworthy." al-Bayhaqī said: "He is not to be used as evidence." Abū Ḥātim said: "He was a righteous servant, but I do not think they use his ḥadīth as evidence." Abū Dāwūd declared him trustworthy (thiqah). al-Bazzār said about this ḥadīth of his: "We know of him only narrating from ʿAlī, and we know of no route for it from ʿAlī except this route." Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 1070
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  حنش ضعيف

  machine translationḤanash is weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 1070

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   Ḥanash

   truthful (ṣadūq), has errors and transmits mursal reportsd. between 81 and 90 AH
   حَنَشٍ الْكِنَانِيِّصدوق له أوهام ويرسل
   عن
3. 3
   Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
   سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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