Musnad Ahmad 13569

Translation

✧ My father, when I did not understand his speech, had grown old, so I left him. Hafs narrated to us on the authority of Anas ibn Malik, who said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to encourage marriage and strongly prohibit celibacy. He used to say, 'Marry those who are loving and fertile, for indeed, on the Day of Resurrection, I will have the greatest numbers of followers among you from the prophets.'"

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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. 13719

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
   حَفْصٌصدوق
   حدثنا
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
   عَفَّانُثقة 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
   أَبِيثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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