Musnad Ahmad 14123

Translation

✧ The best rows of men are the front ones and the worst are the back ones, and the worst rows of women are the front ones and the best are the back ones. Then he said: O assembly of women, when the men prostrate, lower your gazes so that you do not see the private areas of the men due to the tightness of their waist-wrappers.

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

  أيهما أصح قال هذا من تخاليط ابن عقيل من سوء حفظه مرة يقول هكذا ومرة يقول هكذا لا يضبط الصحيح أيما هو

  machine translationWhich of the two is more authentic? He said: This is from the confusions (takhālīṭ) of Ibn ʿAqīl, due to his poor memory; at times he says it like this and at times like that. He does not firmly retain which one is the correct one. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 14272

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAqīl b. Abī Ṭālib

   Truthful (ṣadūq), with some laxity (layyin) in his hadith; it is said that his memory changed towards the end of his life.d. after 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 145 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍصدوق في حديثه لين ، ويقال : تغير بآخره
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Zāʾidah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AH
   زَائِدَةُثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Ṣamad

   truthful (ṣadūq), reliable (thabt) in the narrations of Shuʿbahd. Ibn Ḥibbān said 206 AH or 207 AH
   عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِصدوق , ثبت في شعبة
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.