Musnad Ahmad 10868

Translation

✧ Were it not that I would burden my community, I would command them to use the toothstick.

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• محمد بن إسحاق ابن منده

  وإسناده مجمع على صحته

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 10964

Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 1196"لولا أن أشق على أمتي - أو على الناس- لأمرتهم بالسواك مع كل صلاة"

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 23

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Hurmuz al-Aʿraj

   trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AH
   الْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالم
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-Zinād

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AH
   أَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيه
   عن
4. 4
   Warqāʾ

   truthful (ṣadūq), there is softness in his hadith from Manṣūrd. between 161 and 170 AH
   وَرْقَاءُصدوق ، في حديثه عن منصور لين
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   ʿAlī b. Ḥafṣ

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 201 and 210 AH
   عَلِيٌّصدوق
   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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