Musnad Ahmad 11032

Translation

✧ Soon the best property of a Muslim man will be sheep, with which he follows the mountain peaks and the places where rain falls, fleeing with his religion from the trials.

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What scholars said about it

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• Dāraquṭnī

  إنما روى هذا الحديث ابن أبي صعصعة عن أبيه عن أبي سعيد

  machine translationThis hadith was narrated only by Ibn Abī Ṣaʿṣaʿah, from his father, from Abū Saʿīd. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 11131

Same hadith, other wordings

• Riyadhus Shalihin 598"يوشك أن يكون خير مال المسلم غنم يتتبع بها شعف الجبال، ومواقع القطر، يفر بدينه من الفتن"

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 19Sunan an-Nasa'i 5036Sunan Ibn Majah 3980

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
   أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
2. 2
   His father

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Ṣaʿṣaʿah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the caliphate of Abū Jaʿfar
   ابْنِ أَبِي صَعْصَعَةَ شَيْخٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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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