Musnad Ahmad 14722

Translation

✧ He asked Jabir b. Abdullah about the two trial-angels of the grave, and he said: I heard the Prophet ﷺ say: This community will be tested in its graves. When the believer is placed in his grave and his companions turn away from him, an angel with mighty presence comes and says to him: What did you say about this man? The believer says: I say that he is the Messenger of God and His servant. The angel says to him: Look at your seat that was in the Fire; God has saved you from it and replaced it with the seat you see in Paradise instead of your seat in the Fire, and he sees them both. The believer says: Let me go give my family the good news. It is said to him: Be still. As for the hypocrite, he is seated when his family turns away from him. It is said to him: What did you say about this man? He says: I do not know; I say what people say. It is said to him: You did not know. This is your seat that was in Paradise, replaced instead with your seat in the Fire. Jabir said: I heard the Prophet ﷺ say: Every servant will be resurrected in the grave upon what he died: the believer upon his faith and the hypocrite upon his hypocrisy.

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  فيه ابن لهيعة وفيه كلام وبقية رجاله ثقات

  machine translationIt contains Ibn Lahīʿah, who has been criticized, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy (thiqāt). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 14878

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
   سأل
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
   Ibn Lahīʿah

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AH
   ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Mūsā b. Dāwūd

   Truthful (ṣadūq), a jurist, an ascetic, has errorsd. 216 AH, or 217 AH
   مُوسَى بْنُ دَاوُدَصدوق فقيه زاهد له أوهام
   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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