Musnad Ahmad 13715

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ was of brown complexion, and I have never smelled musk or ambergris with a fragrance more pleasant than that of the Messenger of God ﷺ.

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What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī

  إسناد صحيح

  machine translationThe chain of transmission is authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 13865
• عبد الرحيم العراقي

  أعلها بالشذوذ

  in مسند أحمد, p. 13865
• Mubarakpūri

  لفظة أسمر اللون في الرواية المذكورة انفرد بها حميد عن أنس

  in مسند أحمد, p. 13865
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Jawzī

  هذا حديث لا يصح

  machine translationThis hadith is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 13865

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3357Sahih Muslim 2371Sunan Abi Dawud 2212Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1754

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
   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
   Khālid b. al-Ḥārith

   trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt).d. 186 AH.
   خَالِدٌثقة ثبت.
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Khalaf b. al-Walīd

   d. 212 AH
   خَلَفُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ
   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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