Musnad Ahmad 13333

Translation

✧ You should not be impressed by a man's deeds until you know what his final state will be. A man may do evil deeds for a long time or a period of his life such that if he died upon that, he would die upon evil. Then he turns to righteous deeds and dies upon that. And a servant may do righteous deeds for a long time or a period of his life such that if he died upon that, he would die upon good. Then he turns to evil deeds and dies upon that.

Notes

• قَالَ وَقَدْ رَفَعَهُ حُمَيْدٌ مَرَّةً ثُمَّ كَفَّ عَنْهُ

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• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  وقد رفعه حميد مرة ثم كف عنه

  in مسند أحمد, p. 13480

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
   قال
2. 2
   Ḥumayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a concealer of defects in transmission (mudallis); Zāʾidah faulted him for involving himself in some of the affairs of the rulers.d. at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, the year 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH.
   حُمَيْدٍثقة مدلس ، وعابه زائدة لدخوله في شيء من أمر الأمراء.
   عن
3. 3
   Ibn Abī ʿAdī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 192 AH, or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّثقة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   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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