Musnad Ahmad 14233
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حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ
سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: أَيُّ الْجِهَادِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: مَنْ عُقِرَ جَوَادُهُ وَأُهْرِيقَ دَمُهُ. قَالَ: وَسُئِلَ: أَيُّ الصَّلَاةِ أَفْضَلُ ؟ قَالَ: طُولُ الْقُنُوتِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Wakīʿ
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Sufyān
- Jābir
✧ The Prophet ﷺ was asked, "Which jihad is most excellent?" He replied, "The one whose horse is hamstrung and whose blood is shed." He was asked, "Which prayer is most excellent?" He replied, "Longstanding devotion (qunūt)."
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Narrators
- 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 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 111 and 120 AHأَبِي سُفْيَانَصدوقعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابدحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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