Musnad Ahmad 11912

Translation

✧ "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Verily, Satan comes to one of you while he is in prayer and takes a strand of hair from the back of his head and extends it, making him think that he has changed. He does not leave until he hears a sound or finds a scent."

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What scholars said about it

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• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  في إسناده علي بن زيد بن جدعان

  machine translationIn its chain of transmission is ʿAlī b. Zayd b. Judʿān. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 12036

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 137Sunan Abi Dawud 1029

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
   Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib

   One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AH
   سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبار
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAlī b. Zayd b. Judʿān

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 127 AH, or 129 AH, or 131 AH
   عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍضعيف
   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
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   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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