Musnad Ahmad 121

Translation

✧ He went out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the expedition to Tabuk. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sat one day speaking to his companions and said, "Whoever stands when the sun has risen high, performs ablution and perfects it, then stands and prays two rak'ahs, his sins will be forgiven for him, and he will be as his mother gave birth to him." Uqbah b. Amir said, "I said, 'Praise be to Allah who granted me to hear this from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.'" Umar b. al-Khattab, who was sitting facing me, said to me, "Are you amazed at this? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said something more amazing than this before you came." I said, "What was that, may my father and mother be your ransom?" Umar said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Whoever performs ablution and perfects it, then raises his gaze to the sky and says, "I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, alone without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and messenger," eight gates of Paradise will be opened for him. He may enter through whichever of them he wishes.'"

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• Dāraquṭnī

  رواه أبو إدريس الخولاني وجبير بن نفير وليث بن سليم الجهني وابن عم زهرة بن معبد وأبو سلام الأسود ممطور ومحمد بن ثابت القرشي والقاسم أبو عبد الرحمن وأبو الأحوص حكيم بن عمير عن عقبة بن عامر وروي عن حميد بن هلال العدوي عن عقبة بن عامر ولم يسمع من عقبة شيئا وروي عن عبد الله بن عطاء عن عقبة حدث به أبو إسحاق السبيعي واختلف عن أبي إسحاق فرواه إسرائيل وأبو الأحوص وعبيدة بن معتب ومسعر ويوسف بن إسحاق بن أبي إسحاق وسلمة بن صالح الأحمر وغيرهم عن أبي إسحاق عن عبد الله بن عطاء عن عقبة بن عامر ورواه أنيس بن خالد وهلال الوزان عن أبي إسحاق عن عقبة بن عامر ورواه شعبة ففحص عن إسناده وبين علته وذكر أنه سمعه من ابن إسحاق عن عبد الله بن عطاء عن عقبة بن عامر وأنه لقي عبد الله بن عطاء فسأله عنه فأخبره أنه سمعه من سعد بن إبراهيم وأنه لقي سعد بن إبراهيم فسأله فأخبره أنه سمعه من زياد بن مخراق وأنه لقي زياد بن مخراق فأخبره أنه سمعه من شهر بن حوشب وأن الحديث فسد عند شعبة بذكر ابن حوشب فيه وأحسن أسانيده ما رواه معاوية بن صالح عن ربيعة بن يزيد عن أبي إدريس الخولاني وعن أبي عثمان عن جبير بن نفير عن عقبة بن عامر وهو المبري في الباب وأبو عثمان هذا الأصبحي وحديث يحيى بن حمزة عن يزيد بن أبي مريم عن القاسم أبي عبد الرحمن عن عقبة ليس به بأس أيضا والله أعلم وروى هذا الحديث يزيد بن أبي منصور عن دخين أبي الهيثم عن عقبة بن عامر وأسنده عن أبي بكر الصديق عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وقد تقدم ذكرنا له في مسند أبي بكر رضي الله عنه

  machine translationIt was narrated by Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, Jubayr b. Nufayr, Layth b. Sulaym al-Juhanī, the cousin of Zuhrah b. Maʿbad, Abū Sallām al-Aswad Mamṭūr, Muḥammad b. Thābit al-Qurashī, al-Qāsim Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and Abū al-Aḥwaṣ Ḥakīm b. ʿUmayr, from ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir. It was also narrated from Ḥumayd b. Hilāl al-ʿAdawī from ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir, but he did not hear anything from ʿUqbah. It was also narrated from ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAṭāʾ from ʿUqbah; Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī narrated it, and there is disagreement about Abū Isḥāq. Isrāʾīl, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, ʿUbaydah b. Muʿattib, Misʿar, Yūsuf b. Isḥāq b. Abī Isḥāq, Salamah b. Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar and others narrated it from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAṭāʾ, from ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir. Unays b. Khālid and Hilāl al-Wazzān narrated it from Abū Isḥāq from ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir. Shuʿbah narrated it and investigated its chain and made clear its defect. He mentioned that he heard it from Ibn Isḥāq, from ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAṭāʾ, from ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir; that he met ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAṭāʾ and asked him about it, and he informed him that he heard it from Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm; that he met Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm and asked him, and he informed him that he heard it from Ziyād b. Mikhrāq; that he met Ziyād b. Mikhrāq, and he informed him that he heard it from Shahr b. Ḥawshab. The ḥadīth was thus corrupted in Shuʿbah's view by the mention of Ibn Ḥawshab in it. The best of its chains is what Muʿāwiyah b. Ṣāliḥ narrated from Rabīʿah b. Yazīd, from Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī and from Abū ʿUthmān, from Jubayr b. Nufayr, from ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir, and that is the one free of fault in the chapter. This Abū ʿUthmān is al-Aṣbaḥī. The ḥadīth of Yaḥyā b. Ḥamzah, from Yazīd b. Abī Maryam, from al-Qāsim Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿUqbah is also not problematic, and God knows best. Yazīd b. Abī Manṣūr narrated this ḥadīth from Dukhayn Abū al-Haytham, from ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir, and he traced it back through Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq to the Prophet ﷺ. We have already mentioned it in the Musnad of Abū Bakr, may God be pleased with him. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 121

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   قال لي
2. 2
   ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir b. ʿAbs al-Faraḍī

   a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, or: close to 60 AH
   عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Ibn his uncle
   ابْنِ عَمِّهِ
   عن
4. 4
   Zuhrah b. Maʿbad

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 127 AH, also said: 135 AH
   أَبُو عَقِيلٍثقة عابد
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Ḥaywah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), ascetic (zāhid).d. al-Muqriʾ said: 158 AH. Ibn Yūnus said: 153 AH. Abū Naṣr al-Kalābādhī said: 159 AH.
   حَيْوَةُثقة ثبت فقيه زاهد.
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   ʿAbdullāh b. Yazīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil); he taught the recitation of the Quran for over seventy yearsd. 212 AH, or 213 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَزِيدَثقة فاضل ، أقرأ القرآن نيفا وسبعين سنة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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