Musnad Ahmad 12461
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حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ يَحْيَى حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ الْبُنَانِيُّ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ
مَثَلُ أُمَّتِي مَثَلُ الْمَطَرِ، لَا يُدْرَى أَوَّلُهُ خَيْرٌ أَوْ آخِرُهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ḥasan b. Mūsá
- Ḥammād b. Yaḥyá
- Thābit al-Bunānī
- Anas b. Mālik
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ The likeness of my community is the likeness of rain: it is not known whether its beginning is better or its end.
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Strong | hadithunlocked |
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What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
حماد بن يحيى الأبح ثقة قال أبو عمر من قبله ومن بعده يستغنى عن ذكرهم لأنهم حجة عندهم في نقلهم
in مسند أحمد, p. 12599
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٌ الْبُنَانِيُّثقة عابدحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. between 171 and 180 AHحَمَّادُ بْنُ يَحْيَىصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, or: 209, or: 210 AHحَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقةحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.