Musnad Ahmad 14600

Translation

✧ He said: 'O Messenger of Allah, do we act according to a matter already decreed, or according to a matter we are initiating?' He said: 'According to a matter already decreed.' Suraqa said: 'Then what is the point of action?' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Every doer is facilitated to his action.'

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4696Sunan Abi Dawud 4697Sunan Abi Dawud 4709

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
   Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AH
   أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلس
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist, ḥāfiẓd. 147 AH, or 148 AH, or 149 AH
   عَمْرٌوثقة فقيه حافظ
   أخبرني
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
   ابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Hārūn b. Maʿrūf

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 231 AH, or: 243 AH
   هَارُونُ بْنُ مَعْرُوفٍثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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