Musnad Ahmad 108
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ وَعِصَامُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ قَالا حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ عَنْ شُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ وَرَاشِدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ وَغَيْرِهِمَا قَالُوالَمَّا بَلَغَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ سَرْغَ حُدِّثَ أَنَّ بِالشَّامِ وَبَاءً شَدِيدًا قَالَ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ شِدَّةَ الْوَبَاءِ فِي الشَّامِ فَقُلْتُ إِنْ أَدْرَكَنِي أَجَلِي وَأَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ حَيٌّ اسْتَخْلَفْتُهُ فَإِنْ سَأَلَنِي اللهُ لِمَ اسْتَخْلَفْتَهُ عَلَى أُمَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ؟ قُلْتُ إِنِّي
لَمَّا بَلَغَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ سَرْغَ حُدِّثَ أَنَّ بِالشَّامِ وَبَاءً شَدِيدًا قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ شِدَّةَ الْوَبَاءِ فِي الشَّامِ، فَقُلْتُ: إِنْ أَدْرَكَنِي أَجَلِي، وَأَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ حَيٌّ اسْتَخْلَفْتُهُ، فَإِنْ سَأَلَنِي اللهُ لِمَ اسْتَخْلَفْتَهُ عَلَى أُمَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ ؟ قُلْتُ: إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَكَ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّ لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ أَمِينًا وَأَمِينِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ فَأَنْكَرَ الْقَوْمُ ذَلِكَ وَقَالُوا: مَا بَالُ عُلْيَى قُرَيْشٍ، يَعْنُونَ بَنِي فِهْرٍ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: فَإِنْ أَدْرَكَنِي أَجَلِي وَقَدْ تُوُفِّيَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ اسْتَخْلَفْتُ مُعَاذَ بْنَ جَبَلٍ، فَإِنْ سَأَلَنِي رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لِمَ اسْتَخْلَفْتَهُ ؟ قُلْتُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَكَ ﷺ يَقُولُ: إِنَّهُ يُحْشَرُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ الْعُلَمَاءِ نَبْذَةً.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Mughīrah and ʿIṣām b. Khālid
- Ṣafwān
- Shurayḥ b. ʿUbayd Warāshid b. Saʿd Waghayrihimā
- Ūālammā Balagh ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb Sargh Ḥuddith
- Bi-al-Shhām Wabāʾ Shadīd
- Balaghanī
- Shiddah al-Wabāʾ Fī al-Shām
- In Adrakanī Ajalī Waʾabū ʿUbaydah b. al-Jarrāḥ Ḥay Āstakhlaftuh Faʾin Saʾalanī Allāh Lim Āstakhlaftah
- Ummah Muḥammad ﷺ
- Innī
✧ When Umar b. al-Khattab reached Sargh, he was told that there was a severe plague in Syria. He said: It has reached me that the plague is severe in Syria. I said: If my term overtakes me while Abu 'Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah is alive, I will appoint him as my successor. If Allah asks me why I appointed him over the community of Muhammad ﷺ, I will say: I heard Your Messenger ﷺ say: Indeed, every prophet has a trustee, and my trustee is Abu 'Ubaydah b. al-Jarrah. The people objected to that and said: What about the nobility of Quraysh? — meaning Banu Fihr. Then he said: If my term overtakes me and Abu 'Ubaydah has died, I will appoint Mu'adh b. Jabal as my successor. If my Lord, Mighty and Majestic, asks me why I appointed him, I will say: I heard Your Messenger ﷺ say: Indeed, he will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection before the scholars at a short distance.
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Good Due to External Factors | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Hasan lighairihi | sunnah.com |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رواه أحمد وهو مرسل راشد وشريح لم يدركا عمر
machine translationAḥmad narrated it, and it is a mursal report: Rāshid and Shurayḥ did not meet ʿUmar.
in مسند أحمد, p. 108 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
رجاله ثقات
machine translationIts narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt).
in مسند أحمد, p. 108
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 100 AHشُرَيْحِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 155 AH, or 158 AH, from Baqiyyah: 148 AH, and it is a mistakeصَفْوَانُثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 212 AH, or 215, 222 AHأَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِثقةحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.