Musnad Ahmad 11361

Translation

✧ Whoever draws near to Allah by a span, Allah draws near to him by a cubit. Whoever draws near to Him by a cubit, He draws near to him by a fathom. And whoever comes to Him walking, Allah comes to him at speed.

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  وفيه عطية العوفي وهو ضعيف

  machine translationIn it is ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 11478

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 7536Sahih al-Bukhari 7537Sahih Muslim 2675f

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
   ʿAṭiyyah

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, he was a Shīʿī who practised concealment (mudallis)d. 111 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said in "Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb": also said: the year (127 AH), mentioned by Ibn Qāniʿ, and al-Qarrāb
   عَطِيَّةَصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، وكان شيعيا مدلسا
   عن
3. 3
   Firās

   truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made mistakes (rubbamā wahima)d. 129 AH
   فِرَاسٍصدوق ربما وهم
   عن
4. 4
   Shaybān

   trustworthy (thiqah), he has a bookd. 164 AH
   شَيْبَانُثقة , صاحب كتاب
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muʿāwiyah b. Hishām

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 204 AH, or: 205 AH
   مُعَاوِيَةُصدوق له أوهام
   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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