Musnad Ahmad 1386

Translation

“What is the matter with you, O Abu Muhammad? Perhaps you are upset about your cousin being appointed as caliph?” [referring to Abu Bakrؓ ]. He said: “No.” And he spoke highly of Abu Bakr ؓ, [then he said:] “But I heard the Prophet ﷺ say: ʿ[There is] a word which no one says when he is dying but Allah will relieve him of distress and his colour will brighten.” Nothing prevented me from asking him about it except the fear of not being able to comply with it and I did not ask him about it until he died.” ‘Umar said to him: “I know what it is.” Talhah said to him: “What is it?ʿ ‘Umar said: “Do you know any word that is greater than the word he enjoined his uncle to say when he was dying, ‘La ilaha illallah’?” Talhah said: “You are right. By Allah, that is what it is.”

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• Dāraquṭnī

  أحسنها إسنادا حديث علي بن مسهر ومن تابعه عن مطرف عن الشعبي عن يحيى بن طلحة عن أبيه والله أعلم وحديث مسعر عن إسماعيل بن أبي خالد حسن الإسناد أيضا فإن كان محفوظا فإن يحيى بن طلحة حفظه عن أبيه عن أمه والله أعلم

  machine translationThe best of them in chain of transmission is the ḥadīth of ʿAlī b. Mushir and those who followed him, from Muṭarrif, from al-Shaʿbī, from Yaḥyā b. Ṭalḥah, from his father, and God knows best. The ḥadīth of Misʿar, from Ismāʿīl b. Abī Khālid, is also good (ḥasan) in its chain. If it is preserved (maḥfūẓ), then Yaḥyā b. Ṭalḥah memorized it from his father, from his mother, and God knows best. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 1393

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AH
   عُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقب
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUthmān al-Fayyāḍ

   One of the Ten (promised Paradise)d. 36 AH
   أَبِيهِاحد العشرة
   عن
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. Ṭalḥah b. ʿUbayd Allāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   يَحْيَى بْنِ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة
   عن
4. 4
   al-Shaʿbī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī
   الشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضل
   عن
5. 5
   Muṭarrif

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 133 AH, or: 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AH
   مُطَرِّفٍثقة فاضل
   عن
6. 6
   Ṣāliḥ b. ʿUmar

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 185 AH, or 186 AH, or 187 AH
   صَالِحُ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibrāhīm b. Mahdī

   acceptable (maqbūl)d. 224 AH, or 225 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّمقبول
   حدثنا
8. 8
   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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