Musnad Ahmad 12982

Translation

✧ I entered the governor's palace with my grandfather, and there was a chicken tied up as a target. Every time an arrow hit it, it cried out. He said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade tying up animals as targets."

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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
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   Hishām b. Zayd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 and 120 AH, or between 121 and 130 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة
   حدثني
3. 3
   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.
   حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Bahz

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 197 AH, ʿUqbah b. Mukram al-ʿAmmī said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal: before 198 AH, others said: after 200 AH
   بَهْزٌثقة 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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.