Musnad Ahmad 13573

Translation

✧ A man used to write for the Messenger of God ﷺ. When he dictated to him 'Samīʿan' (All-Hearing), he would write 'Samīʿan Baṣīran' (All-Hearing, All-Seeing). He said: "Leave it." And when he dictated 'ʿAlīman Ḥakīman' (All-Knowing, All-Wise), he wrote 'ʿAlīman Ḥalīman' (All-Knowing, All-Forbearing) — Ḥammād said something like that. He said: He had read al-Baqarah and Āl ʿImrān, and whoever read them had read much of the Qur'an. He then went and became a Christian, saying: "I used to write for Muhammad whatever I wished, and he would say: 'Leave it.'" He died and was buried, but the earth expelled him twice or thrice. Abu Talhah said: "I saw him cast up above the ground."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3617Sahih Muslim 2781

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
   Thābit al-Bunānī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
   ثَابِتٌثقة عابد
   أخبرنا
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
   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
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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