Musnad Ahmad 12613

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ used to command marriage and sternly forbid celibacy, saying: 'Marry the loving and fertile women, for I will boast of your numbers before the prophets on the Day of Resurrection.'

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

  حسن إسناده

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 12751

Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 976{ كَانَ رَسُولُ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -يَأْمُرُ بِالْبَاءَةِ, وَيَنْهَى عَنِ التَّبَتُّلِ نَهْيًا شَدِيدًا, وَيَقُولُ:" تَزَوَّجُوا اَلْوَدُودَ اَلْوَلُودَ. إِنِّي مُكَاثِرٌ بِكُمُ اَلْأَنْبِيَاءَ يَوْمَ اَلْقِيَامَةِ }

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   Ḥafṣ b. brother of Anas

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 111 and 120 AH
   حَفْصُ بْنُ عُمَرَصدوق
   حدثني
3. 3
   Khalaf b. Khalīfah

   truthful (ṣadūq), his memory became confused (ikhtilāṭ) at the endd. Aḥmad said: I think in the year 180 AH or at the end of the year 179 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: 181 AH. From ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd: 185 AH
   خَلَفُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَصدوق ، اختلط في الآخر
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAffān

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